# Izaak (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/izaak/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 2,889 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 2,889 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 856, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 138 | 1,255 |
| 2012 | 124 | 1,362 |
| 2013 | 108 | 1,504 |
| 2014 | 107 | 1,508 |
| 2015 | 90 | 1,722 |
| 2016 | 66 | 2,120 |
| 2017 | 55 | 2,362 |
| 2018 | 53 | 2,455 |
| 2019 | 57 | 2,374 |
| 2020 | 65 | 2,152 |
| 2021 | 57 | 2,393 |
| 2022 | 74 | 2,049 |
| 2023 | 42 | 2,971 |
| 2024 | 55 | 2,488 |
| 2025 | 41 | 3,016 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 32 | 907 |
| 2012 | 32 | 927 |
| 2013 | 22 | 1,147 |
| 2014 | 22 | 1,178 |
| 2015 | 19 | 1,327 |
| 2016 | 22 | 1,234 |
| 2017 | 11 | 2,052 |
| 2018 | 14 | 1,683 |
| 2019 | 17 | 1,439 |
| 2020 | 15 | 1,548 |
| 2021 | 9 | 2,301 |
| 2022 | 18 | 1,420 |
| 2023 | 11 | 2,007 |
| 2024 | 4 | 4,270 |
| 2025 | 11 | 2,133 |

## People named Izaak

- Izaak Walton, English author and biographer (1593-1683)
- Izaak Kolthoff, Dutch-American analytical chemist and university teacher (1894–1993)
- Izaak Reijnders, Dutch military officer (1879–1966)
- Phife Dawg, American rapper (1970–2016)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.