Isreal
#3,881 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Isreal has been given to 4,722 babies in the U.S. since 1880. In 2025 it ranked #3,881 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 121 recorded.
Babies named Isreal, 2025
1 in 118,000
Isreal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Isreal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 118,000
- 28 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 61,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #3,881
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 82,069 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Isreal sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 82,069 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Isreal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Isreals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Isreal was born before 1991 — so the typical Isreal is around 34 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 20.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 36.3%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,809
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 20.0% of all recorded uses (932).
Is Isreal 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
- +137
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,248
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −1,638
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.47×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 23.1%
- Peak was 2006 (121)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 15.7% average annual change
Spellings of Isreal
Isreal is not the most common spelling — Israel is, with 89.5% against Isreal's 5.9%.
Where Isreal is used
Across 1910–2025, Isreal was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 55,102 across all states with data. It was least common in Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 20,000
- 2California1 in 33,333
- 3New York1 in 33,333
- 4Arizona1 in 50,000
- 5South Carolina1 in 50,000
- 6Alabama1 in 100,000
- 7Florida1 in 100,000
- 8Louisiana1 in 100,000
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. Isreal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Isreal around the world
Where Isreal 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.
- England & Wales2007–2024#5,120in 2024
- Ireland2003–2003#423in 2003
- South Australia2011–2011#784in 2011
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Isreal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Isreal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Isreal
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Isreal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Isreal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.