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Yisroel

#826 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Israel

Yisroel has been given to 6,813 babies in the U.S. since 1950. In 2025 it ranked #826 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 300 recorded.

Babies named Yisroel, 2025

1 in 11,100

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Yisroel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Israel

Yiddish

What Yisroel means

Yisroel is a form of Israel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

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

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Yiddish ישׂראל (yisroel, “Israel”), from Hebrew ישראל (yisra'él, “Israel”). Doublet of Israel.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Yisroel (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Yisroel is used in English. Its origins include Yiddish.

Yisroel comes through Yiddish ישׂראל and Hebrew ישראל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Israel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 6,813 boys were recorded with the name Yisroel between 1950 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 300 in 2025; its best national rank was #826 in 2025.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #1,030 in 2020 to #826 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #975 in 2015 to #826 in 2025.

How common is Yisroel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 11,100
300 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 5,690
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#826
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
7,661 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Yisroel 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 5004%

Put another way: gather 7,661 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Yisroel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Yisroels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Yisroel was born before 2010 — so the typical Yisroel is around 15 today.

Median birth year
2010
About 15 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
30.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
71.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
6,813
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 30.2% of all recorded uses (2,056).

Is Yisroel 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
+113
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+204
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+149
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (300)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
9.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#826
2025

Spellings of Yisroel

Yisroel is not the most common spelling — Israel is, with 89.5% against Yisroel's 8.6%.

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 Yisroel is used

Across 2016–2025, Yisroel was most concentrated in New Jersey — about 1 in 493 boys, against 1 in 2,855 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

1203 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New Jersey1 in 493
  2. 2New York1 in 725
  3. 3Maryland1 in 14,286
  4. 4Illinois1 in 50,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  6. 6California1 in 100,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 100,000
  8. 8Ohio1 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.

Yisroel around the world

Where Yisroel 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
    1996–2025
    #1,466
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1992–2024
    #1,817
    in 2024

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.

Notable people named Yisroel

People whose public names include Yisroel, 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.

Yisroel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Yisroel. Linked forms have their own page here.

Israel

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Yisroel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#826
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 204
Best rank ever
#826
2025
Peak year
2025
300 that year
First recorded
1950
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
6,813
Count in 2025
300

Names similar to Yisroel

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

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Names with a curve like Yisroel

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

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Sibling names for Yisroel

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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