Isaac
Isaac is ranked 40th among boys in 2024 (6,498 births). Its best rank was 28th, in 2013.
- Rank in 2024
- #40up 2 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 6,4980.38% of boys
- Peak year
- 200710,274 births
- Best rank
- #28in 2013
- Since 1880
- 325,457people given the name
The story in the numbers
325,457 boys have been named Isaac in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2007, with 10,274 births — 0.50% of all boys recorded that year.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years (rank 31 → 40).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2006, and the 2010s alone account for 29%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 44 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Isaac | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 2,311 | |
| 1890s | 1,735 | |
| 1900s | 1,638 | |
| 1910s | 4,952 | |
| 1920s | 6,552 | |
| 1930s | 4,713 | |
| 1940s | 5,065 | |
| 1950s | 5,479 | |
| 1960s | 4,606 | |
| 1970s | 10,481 | |
| 1980s | 18,375 | |
| 1990s | 40,268 | |
| 2000s | 90,755 | |
| 2010s | 94,547 | |
| 2020s | 33,980 |
In 2007, its biggest year
Isaac was the 41st most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2007 were Jacob, Michael, Ethan, Joshua and Daniel. See all of 2007.
Names that rose and fell with Isaac
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Piercepeak 2015
- Issacpeak 2008
- Jonaspeak 2008
- Justuspeak 2007
- Israelpeak 2007
- Reecepeak 2001
- Julianpeak 2017
- Lukepeak 2014
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.