Isaak

Where Isaak comes from

Isaak hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1894
    Isaak Babel born
    Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer
  2. 1900
    Isaak Dunayevsky born
    Soviet composer
  3. 1976
    First appearance
    #5,587 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2001
    Peak, #799
    210 babies named Isaak — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,652.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Isaak Babel · Russian language journalist, playwright, literary translator, and short story writer, 1894–1940
  • Isaak Dunayevsky · Soviet composer, 1900–1955
  • Isaak Brodsky · Russian artist, 1883–1939
  • Isaak · German singer, born 1995
  • Isaak Khalatnikov · university teacher at Leiden University, 1919–2021

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.