Yisroel

Where Yisroel comes from

From Yiddish ישׂראל (yisroel, “Israel”), from Hebrew ישראל (yisra'él, “Israel”). Doublet of Israel.
— Wiktionary's entry for Yisroel
  • Yiddish
Along the way
  1. 1950
    First appearance
    #3,681 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1956
    Yisroel Dovid Weiss born
    American rabbi and activist
  3. 2025
    Peak, #824
    300 babies named Yisroel — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Yiddish.
Namesakes
  • Yisroel Dovid Weiss · American rabbi and activist, born 1956

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.