Boys' name · since 2017
Israfil
Israfil has 21 recorded births since 2017 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2023 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- #28,639 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 21
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Israfil sits outside today's top ranks for boys, with 21 recorded since 2017.
Israfil has 21 recorded births among boys since 2017, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2020s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 2017 to 2023.
- #28,639 of 45,481 all-time among boys
- 21 born since 2017
- 2020s peak decade
Data updated Aug 2026
The verdict
According to the U.S. Social Security Administration, Israfil ranks #28,639 of 45,481 boys' names by all-time recorded births (highest first). 21 born since 2017, peaking in the 2020s.
- #28,639 of 45,481
- all-time among boys
- 21
- born since 2017
- 2020s
- peak decade
Israfil's 21 recorded births place it above 36.43% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Israfil's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Israfil splits its recorded history at 2022: 71% of all births land in the more recent half, 29% in the earlier half, a lean toward present-day use rather than a passing spike. The single quietest year was 2017 (6 births) -- compare that against the 2023 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Israfil popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–2023
- Peak year (2023)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 7 years of records
Israfil by decade
2020s is the heaviest window (15 births, 71% of the file).
2020s was Israfil's strongest decade.
15 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 71% of all-time use.
Israfil births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 2010s
2010s
6 births
- 2020s
2020s
15 births
What this shows Peak: 2020s at 15 births (71% of all-time use).
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Two nationwide peer axes for Israfil: closest SSA peak year, and closest first→latest record span. Distinct from the spelling and current-rank neighborhoods above.
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Peak year is the single SSA year with the most births for that name; record span is first-to-latest year in the national files, not a recommendation or shared origin claim.
Data Sources
Data as of August 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 2017–2023 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Israfil draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of August 2026.