# Yitzhak (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/yitzhak/  
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 | 249 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 249 / 0 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | not in the ONS data |

## 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 |
|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | 10,729 |
| 2012 | 7 | 10,733 |
| 2013 | 11 | 7,526 |
| 2014 | 10 | 8,106 |
| 2015 | 12 | 7,051 |
| 2016 | 12 | 7,141 |
| 2017 | 9 | 8,812 |
| 2018 | 5 | 14,033 |
| 2019 | 16 | 5,803 |
| 2020 | 6 | 11,972 |
| 2021 | 8 | 9,675 |
| 2022 | 7 | 10,812 |
| 2023 | 9 | 8,897 |
| 2024 | 5 | 14,204 |
| 2025 | 7 | 10,647 |

## People named Yitzhak

- Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, 2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)
- Yitzhak Klinghoffer, Austrian lawyer (1905-1990)
- Isaac Shamir, 7th Prime Minister of Israel (1915-2012)
- Isaac Navon, 5th President of Israel (1978–1983), Israeli Cabinet minister, Member of the Knesset, auth
- Abraham Isaac Kook, chief rabbi of British Mandatory Palestine (1865-1935)
- Art Spiegelman, American cartoonist and writer (born 1948)
- Isaac HaLevy Herzog, 1st Chief Rabbi of Ireland and Israel (1888–1959)
- Itzhak de Laat, Dutch short-track speed skater
- Isaac the Blind, French writer and rabbi (c. 1160–1235)
- Jerry Fielding, American jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer (1922-1980)
- Itzhak Fintzi, Bulgarian actor
- Yitzchok Zev Soloveitchik, Belarusian rabbi (1886-1959)

## 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.