Meaning not yet researched.
Isak: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 38 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,084 in 2004.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,084 in 2004; #3,154 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Isak in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,154 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2004, at #2,084.
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Isak: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 38 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,084 in 2004 · most boys in one year: 57 (2006).
In 2025, 38 US boys were named Isak, making it the 3,154th most common boys’ name of the year, up 969 places from #4,123 in 2024. That is 12 more than the 26 boys named Isak in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,084, reached in 2004. The most boys given the name in a single year was 57, in 2006. For comparison, it was #3,317 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isak in 43 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1979 with 6 babies. In all, 1,107 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 433 babies named Isak.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 263 US boys were named Isak; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 38. In 2025 that was about 1 in 44,949 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Isaac (332,292 babies since 1880), Isaak (4,271 babies since 1880), Isac (3,203 babies since 1880) and Izaak (2,889 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Isoke are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Isoke (6).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Isak in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 38 | #3,154 |
| 2024 | — | — | 26 | #4,123 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,834 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,281 |
| 2021 | — | — | 23 | #4,422 |
| 2020 | — | — | 24 | #4,195 |
| 2019 | — | — | 18 | #5,237 |
| 2018 | — | — | 31 | #3,566 |
| 2017 | — | — | 34 | #3,338 |
| 2016 | — | — | 26 | #4,040 |
| 2015 | — | — | 34 | #3,317 |
| 2014 | — | — | 27 | #3,835 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,259 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,476 |
| 2011 | — | — | 30 | #3,545 |
| 2010 | — | — | 51 | #2,445 |
| 2009 | — | — | 37 | #3,129 |
| 2008 | — | — | 42 | #2,850 |
| 2007 | — | — | 52 | #2,458 |
| 2006 | — | — | 57 | #2,231 |
| 2005 | — | — | 55 | #2,195 |
| 2004 | — | — | 57 | #2,084 |
| 2003 | — | — | 39 | #2,594 |
| 2002 | — | — | 39 | #2,526 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,353 |
| 2000 | — | — | 29 | #3,023 |
| 1999 | — | — | 28 | #2,969 |
| 1998 | — | — | 20 | #3,634 |
| 1997 | — | — | 26 | #2,931 |
| 1996 | — | — | 25 | #2,966 |
| 1995 | — | — | 21 | #3,236 |
| 1994 | — | — | 18 | #3,660 |
| 1993 | — | — | 12 | #4,822 |
| 1992 | — | — | 7 | #6,961 |
| 1991 | — | — | 11 | #4,900 |
| 1990 | — | — | 7 | #6,714 |
| 1989 | — | — | 5 | #8,395 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,570 |
| 1987 | — | — | 7 | #5,728 |
| 1986 | — | — | 8 | #5,054 |
| 1983 | — | — | 5 | #6,676 |
| 1980 | — | — | 5 | #6,649 |
| 1979 | — | — | 6 | #5,644 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).