Isreal
Isreal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 26 births. Its best rank was 659th, in 1880.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 260.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 2006121 births
- Best rank
- #659in 1880
- Since 1880
- 4,635people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,635 boys have been named Isreal in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2006, with 121 births.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1991, and the 2000s alone account for 20%. It has spent 7 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Isreal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 29 | |
| 1890s | 26 | |
| 1900s | 45 | |
| 1910s | 165 | |
| 1920s | 213 | |
| 1930s | 183 | |
| 1940s | 194 | |
| 1950s | 220 | |
| 1960s | 235 | |
| 1970s | 472 | |
| 1980s | 455 | |
| 1990s | 638 | |
| 2000s | 932 | |
| 2010s | 607 | |
| 2020s | 221 |
In 2006, its biggest year
Isreal was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2006 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Ethan and Matthew. See all of 2006.
Names that rose and fell with Isreal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Tomaspeak 2003
- Emanuelpeak 2007
- Esaupeak 2007
- Aronpeak 2008
- Samuelpeak 2001
- Samualpeak 1997
- Claytonpeak 2000
- Edsonpeak 2019
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.