Yisrael
#2,207 for boys in 2025, 64 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 7 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,560since 1976
Yisrael over time
Rank among boys' names. Yisrael has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #2,207 | 64 |
| 2024 | #1,902 | 83 |
| 2023 | #2,097 | 70 |
| 2022 | #1,981 | 77 |
| 2021 | #2,349 | 58 |
| 2020 | #2,167 | 64 |
| 2019 | #2,001 | 73 |
| 2018 | #1,981 | 74 |
| 2017 | #2,109 | 65 |
| 2016 | #2,066 | 68 |
| 2015 | #2,300 | 57 |
| 2014 | #2,154 | 63 |
| 2013 | #2,205 | 59 |
| 2012 | #2,517 | 49 |
| 2011 | #2,317 | 55 |
| 2010 | #2,826 | 42 |
| 2009 | #2,702 | 45 |
| 2008 | #2,753 | 44 |
| 2007 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #2,659 | 44 |
| 2005 | #2,960 | 35 |
| 2004 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #4,616 | 17 |
| 2002 | #3,794 | 22 |
| 2001 | #2,864 | 32 |
| 2000 | #4,389 | 17 |
| 1999 | #5,317 | 12 |
| 1998 | #4,650 | 14 |
| 1997 | #4,451 | 14 |
| 1996 | #4,613 | 13 |
| 1995 | #3,303 | 20 |
| 1994 | #4,803 | 12 |
| 1993 | #4,697 | 12 |
| 1992 | #5,236 | 10 |
| 1991 | #4,760 | 11 |
| 1990 | #4,993 | 10 |
| 1989 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #4,162 | 11 |
| 1987 | #5,459 | 7 |
| 1986 | #4,853 | 8 |
| 1985 | #6,523 | 5 |
| 1984 | #4,552 | 8 |
| 1983 | #5,484 | 6 |
| 1982 | #5,619 | 6 |
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| 1980 | #4,495 | 8 |
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| 1977 | #4,164 | 8 |
| 1976 | #4,418 | 7 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Yisrael! It came in at #4,418, and was given to 7 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1979, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.
Where Yisrael is popular in 2018
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#392 · 1 in 2,114
- New York#760 · 1 in 5,632
- California#1,641 · 1 in 20,651
Best ever in a state: #334 in New Jersey, 2023.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #392 | 19 | 1 in 2,114 |
| New York | #760 | 17 | 1 in 5,632 |
| California | #1,641 | 10 | 1 in 20,651 |
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See more about Yisrael
- 305 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #2,207)
- 40 spots since 2020 (#2,167 → #2,207)
- 93 spots since 2015 (#2,300 → #2,207)
- Debuted 1976
- Peaked 2024 at #1,902 (83 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 20,758 boys born in 2024 were named Yisrael (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 26,689 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 38.8% of all boys named Yisrael (605) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 15 | #4,164 (1977) | #4,291 |
| 1980s | 71 | #4,162 (1988) | #5,046 |
| 1990s | 128 | #3,303 (1995) | #4,682 |
| 2000s | 325 | #2,659 (2006) | #3,297 |
| 2010s | 605 | #1,981 (2018) | #2,248 |
| 2020s | 416 | #1,902 (2024) | #2,117 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Yisrael in 2018
Top boys' names in 2018
More about 2018
boys
1,816,158 boys got a published name in 2018; 1 in 24,543 of them was named Yisrael, which outranked 86.0% of the 14,118 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.9% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,959Yunus75
- #1,959Zachery75
- #1,959Zaine75
- #1,981Yisrael74
- #1,981Crue74
- #1,981Demarion74
- #1,981Indiana74
- #1,994Benji73
- #1,994Cael73
- #1,994Chancellor73
Tied with 12 names at #1,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.