Isaak

Where Isaak comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Isaak.

Isaak through the years
  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 with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 2001
    Peak, #799
    210 babies named Isaak, its best rank.
  5. 2019
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births, down to #1,652.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

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.