Issac

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Issac: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Issac: Recorded every year since 1996, its highest recorded position is #324, and it stood at #829 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
49times a registrar ranked it
30years from first to last
#324highest recorded position
13groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#898
1997	#1174
1998	#1821
1999	#1027
2000	#2142
2001	#1135
2002	#1322
2003	#1011
2004	#1280
2005	#919
2006	#863
2007	#776
2008	#894
2009	#696
2010	#668
2011	#743
2012	#498
2013	#555
2014	#534
2015	#506
2016	#517
2017	#429
2018	#414
2019	#382
2020	#388
2021	#433
2022	#472
2023	#500
2024	#560

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2024: #404 among boys in Northern Ireland, #560 among boys in England and Wales, #619 among boys in Scotland, #785 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1996–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #898 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Highest recorded1998–2025
Highest recorded position: #324 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 1998 (recorded 1998–2025).
Republic of Ireland · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #829 among boys in Republic of Ireland, in 2025.
Republic of Ireland · Boys

Issac appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,474 births with the name.

Issac across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Issac's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#898 (1996)	#382 (2019)	#560 (2024)	29 of 29	1,474 (1996–2024)	114 (2019)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#324 (1998)	#324 (1998)	#829 (2025)	13 of 28	49 (1998–2025)	6 (2011)
Northern Ireland · Boys	#375 (2011)	#334 (2020)	#404 (2024)	6 of 14	20 (2011–2024)	4 (2012)

Issac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Issac in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	47	4 of 10	12
2000s	221	10 of 10	22
2010s	769	10 of 10	77
2020sbusiest	437	5 of 10	87

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 5 years of it this list covers, averaging 87 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2011 and 2012, when recorded births rose by 34, from 42 to 76.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Issac appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #324 in Republic of Ireland in 1998.

Issac's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#560	68	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#500	79	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#472	84	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#433	96	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#388	110	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#382	114	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#414	102	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#429	100	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#517	77	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#506	76	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#534	70	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#555	65	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#498	76	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#743	42	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#668	47	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#696	43	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#894	30	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#776	35	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#863	28	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#919	24	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1280	14	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1011	18	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1135	13	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#2142	5	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1027	14	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1821	6	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1174	11	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#898	16	High	Verified
2024	Northern Ireland	male	#404	3	High	Verified
2022	Northern Ireland	male	#414	3	High	Verified
2020	Northern Ireland	male	#334	4	High	Verified
2014	Northern Ireland	male	#398	3	High	Verified
2012	Northern Ireland	male	#346	4	High	Verified
2011	Northern Ireland	male	#375	3	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#829	3	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#785	3	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#770	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#556	5	High	Verified
2018	Republic of Ireland	male	#635	4	High	Verified
2015	Republic of Ireland	male	#699	3	High	Verified
2013	Republic of Ireland	male	#605	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#490	6	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#720	3	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#701	3	High	Verified
2008	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
1998	Republic of Ireland	male	#324	4	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#619	4	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Northern Ireland hub — collected by NISRA
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1996 and 2025, ranked in 30 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #324, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 114 births, registered in England and Wales in 2019.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1998, and 28 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Issa · #539, 29y
Issabelle · #1656, 17y
Issah · #2754, 11y
Issam · #2172, 17y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Dante · #324, 30y
Elio · #326, 25y
Leoni · #320, 32y
Lilianna · #328, 26y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Chi · #324, 29y
Dante · #324, 30y
Finnan · #324, 23y
Kourtney · #324, 27y

Issac was ranked #324 in Republic of Ireland · Boys in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Issac and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Issac without appearing here.

Issac moved ahead of

Geoffrey Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1280 and #1160 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #1851.
Brent Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1322 and #1322 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1011 and #1771.
Garry Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1322 and #1077 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1011 and #1771.
Barry Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1280 and #815 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #919 and #1617.

Moved ahead of Issac

Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1174 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #1821 and #924.
Cooper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #1011 and #1248 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #1280 and #731.
Luca Compare
In 2007 they stood at #324 and #369 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2008 that had become #601 and #122.
Sebastian Compare
In 2007 they stood at #324 and #369 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2008 that had become #601 and #137.

Moved the opposite way to Issac

Arthur Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 while Arthur went from #280 to #57.
Caleb Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 while Caleb went from #242 to #108.
Callum Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 while Callum went from #99 to #49.
Charlie Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 while Charlie went from #145 to #13.

Moved the same way as Issac

Aaron Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 and Aaron from #6 to #71.
Adam Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 and Adam from #5 to #20.
Adrian Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 and Adrian from #133 to #348.
Alan Compare
Between 1998 and 2025 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Issac went from #324 to #829 and Alan from #46 to #232.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1996 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #324 in Republic of Ireland in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Issac

Issac at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Issac across 3 official records

Issac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Issac appears in

Popularity data

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Issac at a glance

Issac across 3 official records

Issac by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Issac appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Issac

Issac and the names beside it

Issac moved ahead of

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