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Yisrael

#2,227 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Israel

Yisrael has been given to 1,560 babies in the U.S. since 1976. In 2025 it ranked #2,227 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 83 recorded.

Babies named Yisrael, 2025

1 in 51,800

Yisrael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yisrael: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Israel

Hebrew

What Yisrael means

Yisrael is a form of Israel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Yisrael → Israel. The family’s meaning is “God contends”, recorded in the naming reference for Israel.

Origin, language, and formation

Yisrael is used in English and Ladino. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Israel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,560 boys were recorded with the name Yisrael between 1976 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 83 in 2024; its best national rank was #1,920 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,187 in 2020 to #2,227 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #2,326 in 2015 to #2,227 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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Yisrael?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 51,800
64 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 26,700
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,227
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
35,906 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yisrael 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 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 35,906 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yisrael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yisraels were born

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

Median birth year
2014
About 11 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
38.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,560
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 38.8% of all recorded uses (605).

Is Yisrael 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
−307
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−40
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+99
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.12×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
77.1%
Peak was 2024 (83)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
13.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,920
2024

Spellings of Yisrael

Yisrael is not the most common spelling — Israel is, with 51.0% against Yisrael's 1.1%.

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 Yisrael is used

Across 1910–2025, Yisrael was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 20,000 boys, against 1 in 54,990 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 20,000
  2. 2New York1 in 25,000
  3. 3Florida1 in 100,000
  4. 4Maryland1 in 100,000
  5. 5California1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —

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. Yisrael has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Yisrael around the world

Where Yisrael 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 & Wales
    2000–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • Canada
    1998–2022
    #2,959
    in 2022

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Yisrael by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,227
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 40
Best rank ever
#1,920
2024
Peak year
2024
83 that year
First recorded
1976
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,560
Count in 2025
64

Names similar to Yisrael

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

MickaelAbimaelMychaelYisroelMikhaelYishaiIzraelIsrraelMissaelMishaelNatanaelNatnaelAzraelIshmaelMicaelJamichaelAsaelIzaelJonaelHazaelMizaelEzraelMykaelSamael

Sibling names for Yisrael

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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