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The issac Surname

issac Name Meaning and History

  1. Indian (Kerala): derivative, alongside the more usual European form Isaac, of the Hebrew personal name yishaq ‘he laughs’. In Kerala this is used as a given name among Christians and in the U.S. it has come to be used as a last name among families from Kerala.
  2. French, English, Welsh, etc.: variant spelling of Isaac.

Dictionary of American Family Names, Oxford University Press, ISBN 0-19-508137-4
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The issac name in History

A unique volume of fascinating facts, statistics and commentary following the issac family name as far back in history as possible.

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Distribution of issac Families in the US in 1920
Number of issac families
 19-35
 7-18		 1-6
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Compiled by Ancestry.com from the 1920 US Federal Census records

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