Izrael
Izrael was given to 56 boys in 2025, #2,431 among boys’ names; 1,258 Americans have been recorded with it since 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,250 Americans named Izrael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 17.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Izrael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Izrael mean?
Wiktionary, Czech section
Izrael is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Israel”
Inherited from Old Czech Iz(d)ra(h)el, Isra(h)el, Jezrahel.
[ˈɪzraɛl]
Meaning: Wiktionary, Czech section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Izrael?
#2,431 among boys’ names, 2025
Izrael fell from #2,370 in 2015 to #2,431 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 28.7 to 32.8 per million.
95 babies in 2023, the peak
Izrael peaked in 2023, when 95 babies were given it (90 boys, #1,790 among boys’ names). The 61 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 64% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 56 | #2,431 | 32.8 |
| 2024 | 52 | #2,577 | 30.2 |
| 2023 | 90 | #1,790 | 52.6 |
| 2022 | 70 | #2,122 | 40.1 |
| 2021 | 61 | #2,285 | 34.9 |
| 2020 | 58 | #2,330 | 33.6 |
| 2019 | 69 | #2,095 | 38.5 |
| 2018 | 47 | #2,642 | 25.9 |
| 2017 | 68 | #2,059 | 36.7 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,244 | 31.6 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 55 | #2,370 | 28.7 |
| 2014 | 35 | #3,174 | 18.2 |
| 2013 | 34 | #3,224 | 18.0 |
| 2012 | 49 | #2,534 | 25.8 |
| 2011 | 48 | #2,562 | 25.3 |
| 2010 | 55 | #2,339 | 28.7 |
| 2009 | 39 | #3,010 | 19.7 |
| 2008 | 60 | #2,215 | 29.4 |
| 2007 | 42 | #2,837 | 20.2 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,338 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 22 | #4,110 | 11.0 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,240 | 15.1 |
| 2003 | 25 | #3,557 | 12.7 |
| 2002 | 11 | #6,251 | 5.7 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,134 | 4.6 |
| 2000 | 13 | #5,390 | 6.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,894 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,001 | 5.2 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,593 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,709 | 5.3 |
| 1994 | 7 | #7,267 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Izrael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,258 Americans recorded as Izrael, 1% are girls and 99% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 girls and 56 boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Izrael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Izrael, and how old are they?
1,250 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,258 Americans ever recorded as Izrael. The median Izrael alive today is 10 years old; half are between 5 and 17.
The 2020 Census counted 676 people named Izrael (21 women and girls, 655 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 868 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 16 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 465 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 764 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Izrael born?
The states with the most babies named Izrael are California, Texas and Arizona, with 100% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 10 | #1,637 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 10 | #1,694 | 1.5× |
| Arizona | 8 | #747 | 1.4× |
Where Izrael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Izrael is most over-represented in California: since 1994 it was given 1.6 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Izrael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,587 babies since 1880, Izrael is the most given (79% of them). In 2025 it was given to 61 of their 71 babies (86%), again the most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Izrael
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Izrael and names like it
- Compare Izrael and IzrealBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIzrael peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Izrael since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Izrael: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Izrael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Izrael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.