Isaac (name)
Isaac or Isaak, transliterated from (Hebrew: יִצְחָק, Standard Yiẓḥaq Tiberian Yiṣḥāq) as Itzhak or Yitzhak, or Yitzchok, was one of the three patriarchs in the Hebrew Bible, whose story is told in the book of Genesis.
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| Pronunciation | /ˈaɪzək/ |
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| Gender | Male |
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| Word/name | Hebrew |
| Meaning | "laughing" |
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| Variant form(s) | Issac, Isac |
| Nickname(s) | Izzy, Ike |
| Related names | Izzy, Ike, Zack, Israel, Isamu, Abraham |
Isaac is a given name derived from Judaism and a given name among Jewish, Christian, and Muslim societies, generally in reference to the above. "Ike" and "Ise" are also short forms of the name Isaac.
In world languages
- Albanian: Isak
- Arabic: إسحٰق, إسحاق (Ishaq, ʼIsḥāq)
- Armenian: Սաակ (Saak), Սահակ (Sahak), Սահակ (Sahag)
- Azerbaijani: İshaq
- Basque: Isaak
- Belarusian: Ісак (Isak)
- Bengali: ইসহাক (Ishak)
- Bosnian: Ishak
- Breton: Izaag
- Bulgarian: Исаак (Isaak)
- Catalan: Isaac
- Chinese Simplified: 艾萨克 (Aìsàkè) / 以撒 (Yǐsǎ)
- Chinese Traditional: 艾薩克 (Àisàkè) / 以撒 (ji5saat3)
- Croatian: Izak
- Czech: Izák
- Danish: Isak, (older:) Isach
- Dutch: Isaak
- English: Isaac, Isac (Old English)
- Esperanto: Isaako, Izaak, Isĥak, Isaac, Isac
- Estonian: Iisak
- Ewe: Isak
- Faroese: Ísakur
- Finnish: Iisakki
- French: Isaac
- Galician: Isaac
- Georgian: ისააკ (Isaak)
- German: Isaak
- Greek: Ισαάκιος (Isaakios), Ισαάκ (Isaák)
- Haitian Creole: Izarak
- Hausa: Is'haƙu, Isaka
- Hebrew: יִצְחָק, (Yiṣḥāq, IPA /jits'xak/), Yitzhak, Itzhak, Yitshak, Its.hak
- Hindi: इसहाक (Isahaak)
- Hmong: Ixaj
- Hungarian: Izsák
- Icelandic: Ísak
- Indonesian: Ishak
- Irish: Íosác
- Italian: Isacco
- Japanese: アイザック (Aizakku) / イサク (Isaku)
- Javanese: Iskak
- Kannada: ಐಸಾಕ್ (Aisāk)
- Khmer: អ៊ីសាក (Aisak)
- Korean: 이삭 (I-sak), 아이작 (Aijak)
- Kyrgyz: Ыскаак (Ysqaaq), Исхак (Iskhaq)
- Lao: ອີຊາກ (Isak)
- Ladino: יצחק (Yiṣḥāq), Isaac, Itshak, Izak, Yshac, Yshak, Ishac, Isak, Yitzhak, Yitshak (Yitsḥak), Yitzjak, Isacc
- Latin: Isaacius, Isaacus
- Latvian: Aizeks, Izaks
- Lithuanian: Izaokas
- Macedonian: Исак (Isak)
- Malay: Ishak
- Malayalam: ഇസഹാക് (Isahaak)
- Maori: Ihaka
- Mongolian: Исаак (Isaak)
- Norwegian: Isak
- Persian: اسحاق (Ishaq)
- Polish: Izaak
- Portuguese: Isaque, Isac, Isaac, Isaak, Isack, Isak, Izak, Ysaack, Zac, Zaci[1]
- Russian: Исаак (Isaak)
- Romanian: Isac, Ițac
- Scottish Gaelic: Iosag
- Serbian Cyrillic: Исак (Isak)
- Slovene: Izak
- Somali: Isxaaq
- Spanish: Isaac
- Swahili: Isaka, Isaki
- Swedish: Isak, Isac
- Syriac: ܐܝܤܚܩ (Iskhaaq)
- Telugu: ఇస్సాకు, (Issāku)
- Thai: อิสอัค, ไอแซก (Xịsæk)
- Turkish: İshak, İshâk
- Ukrainian: Ісаак (Isaak)
- Uyghur: ئىسھاق (Ishaq), ئىساق (Isaq)
- Uzbek: Ishoq (Is-hoq)
- Urdu: اسحاق
- Yiddish: יצחק (Yẕẖq) ( = Yitskhok, IPA /'jitsxok/), Aizik, Isaak, Izik, Yitzhak, Isac, Itzak, Itzek, Itzig, Hiztig, Izaak, Zack, Zak
- Yoruba: Ísáàkì
- Zulu: Isaka
Given name
Isaac
This is a selection of better known people with the name Isaac; for a comprehensive list, see All pages with titles beginning with Isaac.
- Saint Isaac, several people
- Isaac Abarbanel (1437–1508), Portuguese Jewish statesman and philosopher
- Isaac Alarcón (born 1998), Mexican American football player
- Isaac Albéniz (1860–1909), Spanish pianist and composer
- Isaac Alfasi (1013–1103), Algerian Talmudist and jurist
- Isaac II Angelos (1156–1204), Byzantine Emperor
- Isaac of Armenia (354–439), Patriarch of the Armenian Apostolic Church
- Isaac Asiata (born 1992), American football player
- Isaac Asimov (1920–1992), Russian-born American writer and biochemist
- Isaac Babel (1894–1940), Russian journalist, playwright and short story writer
- Isaac Christina Gladys, Prominent Anglo-Indian journalist, Goa (from 2000-2013), migrated to London. Married surname is Viegas.
- Isaac Barrow (1630–1677), English theologian and mathematician
- Isaac Beeckman (1588–1637), Dutch philosopher and scientist
- Isaac de Benserade (1613–1691), French poet
- Isaac the Blind (c.1160–1235), French Jewish mysticist and Kabbalist
- Isaac Boleslavsky (1919–1977), Soviet chess grandmaster
- Isaac Brock (1769–1812), British Army officer and colonial administrator
- Isaac Brock (born 1975), American lead singer in Modest Mouse
- Isaac Casaubon (1559–1614), French-born English classical scholar and philologist
- Isaac da Costa (1798–1860), Dutch Jewish poet
- Isaac Cuenca (born 1991), Spanish footballer
- Isaac Dalby (1744–1824), English mathematician and surveyor
- Isaac D'Israeli (1766–1848), British writer, scholar and man of letters
- Isaac Deutscher (1907–1967), Polish writer, journalist and political activist
- Isaac Hanson (born 1980), American musician, guitarist in Hanson
- Isaac Hayes (1942–2008), American singer-songwriter, voice actor, and producer
- Isaac Israel Hayes (1832–1881), American Arctic explorer, physician and politician
- Isaac Hamilton (born 1994), American basketball player
- Isaac Heller (1926-2015), American toy manufacturer, co-founder of Remco
- Isaac Hempstead Wright (born 1999), English actor
- Isaac Herzog (born 1960), Israeli politician and lawyer
- Isaac Isaacs (1855–1948), Australian Chief Justice and Governor-General
- Isaac Israeli ben Solomon (c. 832 – c. 932), Arab Jewish physician and philosopher
- Isaac Israëls (1865–1934), Dutch impressionist painter
- Isaac Kashdan (1905–1985), American chess grandmaster
- Isaac I Komnenos (c. 1007–1061), Byzantine Emperor
- Isaac Komnenos (son of Alexios I) (1093 – aft. 1152), Byzantine prince
- Isaac Komnenos of Cyprus (c.1155–1196), ruler of Cyprus
- Isaac Kragten (born 2002), Canadian actor
- Isaac Levitan (1860–1900), Russian landscape painter
- Isaac Luria (1534–1572), Jewish religious leader and mysticist
- Isaac Makwala (born 1986), Botswana sprinter
- Isaac Nauta (born 1997), American football player
- Isaac Newton (1642–1727), English mathematician, astronomer, and physicist
- Isaac of Nineveh (c. 613 – c. 700), Syriac Christian bishop and theologian
- Isaac Okoro (born 2001), American basketball player
- Isaac Okoronkwo (born 1978), Nigerian footballer
- Isaac Oliver (c.1565–1617), French-born English portrait painter
- Isaac van Ostade (1621–1649), Dutch genre and landscape painter
- Isaac Peral (1851–1895), Spanish engineer, naval officer and designer of the Peral Submarine
- Isaac Leib Peretz (1852–1915), Yiddish writer from Poland
- Isaac Pitman (1813–1897), English inventor of shorthand/stenography
- Isaac Roberts (1829–1904), Welsh amateur astronomer
- Isaac Rochell (born 1995), American football player
- Isaac Rosefelt (born 1985), American-Israeli basketball player
- Isaac Henrique Sequeira (1738-1816), Portuguese physician
- Isaac Shelby (1750–1826), Governor of Kentucky
- Isaac Singer (1811–1875), American inventor and businessman (sewing machine)
- Isaac Bashevis Singer (1902–1991), Polish-born American author, Nobel prize literature 1978
- Isaac Slade (born 1989), American lead singer in The Fray
- Isaac Stern (1920–2011), Ukrainian-born American violinist and conductor
- Isaac Taylor (1787-1865), English philosopher & historian
- Isaac Taylor (1829-1901), Anglican priest, philologist, toponymist
- Isaac Titsingh (1745–1812), Dutch surgeon, scholar, merchant-trader and ambassador
- Isaac Vorsah (born 1988), Ghanaian footballer
- Isaac Watts (1674–1748), English Christian minister, hymn writer, theologian, and logician
- Isaac Yiadom (born 1996), American football player
- Isaac White (born 1998), English Bass player with the Indie rock band RedFaces.
- Isaach
- Isaach de Bankolé (born 1957), Ivorian actor
Fictional people
- Isaac, a character played by Ashley David in the British web series Corner Shop Show.
- Isaac, the main antagonist from the video game Konami's Castlevania: Curse of Darkness and Nintendo's Devil's Third
- Isaac, the main protagonist in The Binding of Isaac "The Binding of Isaac" and The Binding of Isaac: Rebirth
- Isaac, a main character in Nintendo's Golden Sun series
- Isaac, extraterrestrial android being serving aboard the eponymous starship in American television series The Orville, played by Mark Jackson
- Isaac Chroner, the main antagonist from the Stephen King short story Children of the Corn
- Isaac Clarke, a fictional character from the video game Dead Space
- Isaac Davis, Woody Allen's character in Manhattan
- Isaac Dian, a fictional character from the light novel and anime series Baccano!
- Isaac Harris, character from the Stephen King novella The Bazaar of Bad Dreams
- Isaac Heller, main antagonist from season 4 of Once Upon a Time
- Isaac Jaffe, Robert Guillaume's character in Aaron Sorkin's Sports Night
- Isaac Kleiner, fictional character from the video games Half-Life and Half-Life 2
- Isaac Lahey, a werewolf and former member of the McCall Pack in MTV's cult television series Teen Wolf, played by Daniel Sharman
- Isaac Mendez, fictional character from the television series Heroes, played by Santiago Cabrera
- Isaac Netero, a character in the manga series Hunter × Hunter
- Isaac Washington, bartender on The Love Boat, played by Ted Lange
Isaak
- Isaak Abelin (1883–1965), Swiss physiologist
- Isaak Asknaziy (1856–1902), Russian painter
- Isaak Bacharach (1854–1942), German mathematician
- Isaak Benrubi (born 1876-1943), Ottoman philosopher
- Isaak van den Blocke (1574–1626), Flemish painter in Poland
- Isaak Brodsky (1884–1883), Soviet painter
- Isaak Bubis (1910-2000), Moldavian Soviet engineer and architect
- Isaak August Dorner (1809–1884), German church leader
- Isaak Dunayevsky (1900–1955), Soviet composer
- Isaak Elias (born 1912-1998), Canadian politician
- Isaak Löw Hofmann, Edler von Hofmannsthal (1759–1849), Austrian merchant
- Isaak de Graaf (born 1668-1743), Dutch cartographer
- Isaak Iselin (1728–1782), Swiss philosopher of history and politics
- Isaak Markus Jost (1793–1860), German Jewish historian
- Isaak Kikoin (1908–1984), Soviet physicist
- Isaak Markovich Khalatnikov (1919–2021), Soviet physicist
- Isaak B. Klejman (1921–2012), Ukrainian Soviet archaeologist
- Isaak Lalayants (1870–1933), Russian revolutionary
- Isaak Ah Mau (born 1982), New Zealand rugby league player
- Isaak D. Mayergoyz, American academic
- Isaak Mazepa (1884–1952), Ukrainian politician
- Isaak Moiseevich Milin (1919–1992), Soviet mathematician
- Isaak "Tjaak" Pattiwael (1914–1987), Indonesian footballer
- Isaak Pomeranchuk (1913–1966), Soviet physicist
- Isaak Illich Rubin (1886–1937), Soviet economist
- Isaak Augustijn Rumpf (1673–1723), Dutch Governor of Ceylon
- Isaak Tirion (1705–1765), Dutch publisher
- Isaak Voss (1618–1689), Dutch scholar and manuscript collector
- Isaak Yaglom (1921–1988), Soviet mathematician
- Isaak Zelensky (1890–1938), Soviet politician
Surname Isaac or Isaak
- Adèle Isaac (1854–1915), French operatic soprano
- Alexandre Isaac (1845–1899), French lawyer, Senator of Guadeloupe from 1885 until 1889
- Arthur Isaac, English cricketer
- Auguste Isaac (1849-1938), French politician
- Bryan Isaac, dancer
- Bobby Isaac, American racing driver
- Chris Isaak, American musician
- George Isaac (politician), Egyptian politician
- Glynn Isaac, South African archaeologist
- Heinrich Isaac, Ugonis, Henricus, Heinrich or Arrigo or Ysaac, Franco-Flemish composer
- Jason Isaac, American politician
- John Isaac (cricketer), English cricketer
- Luis Isaac, Puerto Rican baseball player
- Oscar Isaac, American actor
- Ray Isaac (quarterback), American football player
- Ray Isaac (singer), Australian singer
- Rhys Isaac, American historian
- Robert M. Isaac, mayor of Colorado Springs
- Ty Isaac, American football player
References
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