Jicchak

given name · Latin script

Jicchak 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Jicchak 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)

242,217 named Isaac, 2020

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
146 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 179 (inferred from the name graph)

Israel, est., as יצחק

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

יצחקHebrew(measured from records)
IsaacLatin(measured from records)

3 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled יצחק in IL Israel, US United States, RO Romania and 2 more and Itzhak in BR Brazil, ES Spain.

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

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Jicchak 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.

Where Jicchak is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—242,217as Isaac1 in 1.4K242Kיצחק146
BR Brazil—85,862as Isaac1 in 2.5K86KItzhak22
IL Israel#8≈48,000 est.≈1 in 17911Kיצחק104
RO Romania#34≈41,000 est.≈1 in 517—יצחק6
ES Spain—29,097as Isaac1 in 1.7K29KItzhak12
EC Ecuador—26,634as Isaac1 in 63527K—1
QA Qatar#9≈10,000 est.≈1 in 240—יצחק1
BG Bulgaria#170≈9,700 est.≈1 in 715—יצחק3

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. 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Jicchak is also recorded as another name, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Jicchák

4 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

100012001400160018002000Isaac I Komnenos, b. 1007Isaac II Angelos, b. 1155Yitzhak Ben-Zvi, b. 1884Isaac Shamir, b. 1915Isaac Navon, b. 1921Yitzhak Rabin, b. 1922Yitzhak Arad, b. 1926Itzhak Perlman, b. 1945Isaac Herzog, b. 1960Isaak, b. 1995
  • Isaac I Komnenosb. 1007TRByzantine Emperor
  • Isaac II Angelosb. 1155TRByzantine emperor (1155-1204)
  • Yitzhak Ben-Zvib. 1884ILnot in their usual name2nd President of Israel (1952–1963) - (1884–1963)
  • Isaac Shamirb. 1915IL7th Prime Minister of Israel (1915-2012)
  • Isaac Navonb. 1921ILIsraeli politician, 5th President of Israel (1921–2015)
  • Yitzhak Rabinb. 1922ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli politician, statesman and general (1922–1995)
  • Yitzhak Aradb. 1926ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli historian, retired IDF brigadier general and a former Soviet partisan who has served as director of Yad Vashem from 1972 to 1993
  • Itzhak Perlmanb. 1945ILnot in their usual nameIsraeli-American violinist and conductor (born 1945)
  • Isaac Herzogb. 1960ILPresident of Israel since 2021
  • Isaakb. 1995DEnot in their usual nameGerman singer

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikipedia given-name tokens

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

Is Jicchak a male or female name?
Jicchak 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.
In which country does Jicchak 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.
How common is the name Jicchak?
In the United States, the national register counted 242,217 people named Isaac in 2020, about 1 in 1.4 thousand residents.
How common is Jicchak compared with other names?
In Israel, Jicchak is the 8th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.

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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, “Jicchak” — the 8th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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