Itzhak
A Hebrew name that means "he will laugh". Fewer than a hundred men in Poland carry this spelling, and most people here have never met one.
Itzhak Pronunciation
Itzhak is pronounced EETS-khahk (/ˈitsxak/).
What Itzhak means
Where Itzhak comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Itzhak is the Hebrew name Yitzhak, borne by the patriarch called Isaac in English Bibles. The verb behind it means "he will laugh," in Polish on się będzie śmiał. Genesis explains the laugh twice. Sarah laughs when told she will bear a son past the age for it, and the name keeps that surprised laughter as its record.
The form Itzhak stays close to Hebrew and Yiddish speech, without the Latin softening that gave Europe Isaac and Izaak. It marks a bearer as Jewish more plainly than those cousins do.
One bearer settles the matter. Itzhak Perlman, born in Tel Aviv in 1945, is among the most recorded violinists alive. On a Polish class register the name would sit apart from the Izaaks around it, spelled with that hard middle.
The meaning is not a wish about temperament. It is a report of one specific laugh, and Itzhak carries it: he will laugh.
How many people are named Itzhak
1 in 215618 men in Poland is named Itzhak. 99 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #3475 among male names.
Itzhak as a middle name
Itzhak is a first name for 99 men in Poland and a middle name for another 79, a 56/44 split, almost evenly. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 804th, between Geralt (79) and Khan (79).
-
#802 Gaston79
-
#803 Geralt79
-
#804 Itzhak79
-
#805 Khan79
-
#806 Long79