How Many People Are Named Yisrael?
people named Yisrael are alive in the United States today (estimate)
About 1 in 222,082 people in the US has this name
Based on 1,560 babies named Yisrael in Social Security records from 1976 to 2025, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.
Popularity Rank
💎💎 Very Rare
Peak Year
83 births
Trend
Stable (last 10 years)
📖 Name Origin & Meaning
Meaning:
Modern Hebrew form of ISRAEL.
Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.
⚧ Gender Distribution
All of the babies given the name Yisrael in the records were boys.
👥 Age Distribution
The average person named Yisrael alive today is about 13 years old, and 90% are under 30. Half of them were between 5 and 19 in 2025.
📈 Popularity Over Time
Yisrael first appears in the records in 1976 and was given most often in 2024, to 83 babies. In 2025, 64 babies got the name.
Babies given the name each year, 1976 to 2025
🏆 Rank History
Yisrael has never been one of the 100 most popular boys' names. Its best rank was #1,920, in 2024. In 2025 it ranked #2,227.
| Boys | |
|---|---|
| Rank in 2025 | #2,227 |
| Best rank | #1,920 (2024) |
| Years in the top 100 | None |
| Rank in its biggest decade | #2,228 in the 2010s |
📍 State-Wise Distribution
People named Yisrael alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).
More people named Yisrael were born in New York than in any other state: about 583 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Yisrael was given 10.3 times as often in New Jersey and 10 times in New York.
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