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Baby name
Isaac
Boy
Origin of the name
Isaac comes, through Latin, from the Hebrew Yitzhak, “he will laugh.” In the Bible, he is the son of Abraham and Sarah.
Classic name
331,508births since 1880
2000sgeneration
No. 41rank at its peak, in 2007
Where babies named Isaac are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Isaac is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Isaac is most common in Nevada (2.2 times), New Mexico (2.1) and Utah (2.1), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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