Itzhak
Itzhak is a Hebrew given name and surname, meaning Isaac. Notable people with the name include:
- Hebrew
Meaning & Origin of Itzhak
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Itzhak is a Hebrew given name and surname, meaning Isaac. Notable people with the name include:
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hebrew
The Story of Itzhak
Itzhak first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby boy name in 1996, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2011: 7 births, good for #9,599 nationwide. About 42% of every Itzhak on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Itzhak last appeared in the published SSA data in 2021, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 45 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1990s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Itzhak
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Names that sound like Itzhak
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About the name Itzhak
Itzhak is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1996 and has accumulated 45 births in the dataset. Itzhak's peak popularity came in 2011 when it ranked #9,599. Use the chart and map above to compare Itzhak's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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