Itzhak
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Isaac
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈɪtsæk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Itzhak is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Israel it is the 8th most common given name.
- ILIsrael≈1 in 179as יצחק(inferred from the name graph)
- QAQatar≈1 in 240as יצחק
- RORomania≈1 in 517as יצחק
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Itzhak itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 146 (measured from records)
- 1 in 696K (inferred from the name graph)
242,217 named Isaac, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled יצחק in IL Israel, US United States, RO Romania and 2 more and Izhak in FI Finland.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Isaac
Sources 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 19 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Itzhak counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 242,217as Isaac | 1 in 1.4K | 242K | יצחק | 146 |
| BR Brazil | — | 85,862as Isaac | 1 in 2.5K | 86K | Itzhak | 22 |
| IL Israel | #8 | ≈48,000 est. | ≈1 in 179 | 11K | יצחק | 104 |
| RO Romania | #34 | ≈41,000 est. | ≈1 in 517 | — | יצחק | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 29,097as Isaac | 1 in 1.7K | 29K | Itzhak | 12 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 26,634as Isaac | 1 in 635 | 27K | — | 1 |
| QA Qatar | #9 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 240 | — | יצחק | 1 |
| BG Bulgaria | #170 | ≈9,700 est. | ≈1 in 715 | — | יצחק | 3 |
| FI Finland | — | 8 | 1 in 696K | 539 | Izhak | 3 |
242,217 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020, counting the spelling isaac. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Itzhak is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A male given name from Hebrew, variant of Isaac.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Isaac Israelib. 832EGmedieval Jewish physician and philosopher
- Itzhak Katzenelsonb. 1886PLJewish teacher, poet and dramatist, murdered in Holocaust (1886-1944)
- Itzhak Sternb. 1901PLPolish accountant and Holocaust survivor (1901–1969)
- Yitzhak Zuckermanb. 1915ILnot in their usual namePolish Jewish resistance fighter, survivor of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising (1915-1981)
- Jerry Fieldingb. 1922USnot in their usual nameAmerican jazz musician, arranger, band leader, and film composer (1922-1980)
- Itzhak Fintzib. 1933BGBulgarian actor
- Itzhak Perlmanb. 1945ILIsraeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)
- Art Spiegelmanb. 1948USnot in their usual nameAmerican cartoonist and writer (born 1948)
- Itzhak Shumb. 1948ILIsraeli footballer
- Isaac Herzogb. 1960ILPresident of Israel since 2021
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 24 sources across 14 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 343 | #26,868 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #7,787 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 40 | #7,731 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 8 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2016 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2011 | 7 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2006 | 6 | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — Visualizador de Nombres y Apellidos, per-token query API (1900–2024) | — | 6 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2021 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2017 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2008 | 5 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2007 | 5 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Itzhak mean, and where does it come from?
- Isaac Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- How do you pronounce Itzhak?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈɪtsæk/ (IPA) for Hebrew.
- Is Itzhak a male or female name?
- Itzhak is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Itzhak?
- In the etymology graph, Isaac, Issac and Yitzhak are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Itzhak have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 242 thousand people named Isaac, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Itzhak most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Itzhak is densest in Finland — about 1 in 696 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Itzhak?
- In Finland, the national register counted 8 people named Itzhak, about 1 in 696 thousand residents.
- How common is Itzhak compared with other names?
- In Israel, Itzhak is the 8th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/itzhakThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Itzhak” — the 8th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.