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Isael

#989 in 2025Boys' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Isael has been given to 3,164 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #989 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 244 recorded.

Babies named Isael, 2025

1 in 14,400

Isael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Isael: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Isael means

Isael is a given name.

The naming story behind Isael

Wikidata records Isael as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q56798379, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,164 boys were recorded with the name Isael between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 244 in 2024; its best national rank was #944 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,430 in 2020 to #989 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,939 in 2015 to #989 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

How common is Isael?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 14,400
231 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 7,390
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#989
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
9,949 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Isael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 5003%

Put another way: gather 9,949 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Isaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Isael was born before 2014 — so the typical Isael is around 11 today.

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
86.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
3,164
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (1,133).

Is Isael rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
−45
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+441
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+950
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
3.08×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
94.7%
Peak was 2024 (244)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#944
2024

Spellings of Isael

Isael is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 51.4% against Isael's 0.49%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Isael is used

Across 2016–2025, Isael was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 4,000 boys, against 1 in 9,204 across all states with data. It was least common in Massachusetts (1 in 50,000).

225 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 4,000
  2. 2Texas1 in 5,000
  3. 3California1 in 5,556
  4. 4Colorado1 in 9,091
  5. 5Washington1 in 10,000
  6. 6Kansas1 in 12,500
  7. 7Florida1 in 14,286
  8. 8Oklahoma1 in 14,286

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.

Isael around the world

Where Isael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1907–2025
    #2,415
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1993–1993
    #1,824
    in 1993

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Isael

People whose public names include Isael, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Isael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#989
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 441
Best rank ever
#944
2024
Peak year
2024
244 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,164
Count in 2025
231

Names similar to Isael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Names with a curve like Isael

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Isael, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Isael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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