Yisroel
Yisroel was given to 300 boys in 2025, #826 among boys’ names; 6,813 Americans have been recorded with it since 1950 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,650 Americans named Yisroel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 16 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Yisroel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Yisroel mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Yisroel is “a male given name from Yiddish.” Its etymology gives the senses “Israel” (ישׂראל) and “Israel” (ישראל).
From Yiddish ישׂראל (yisroel, “Israel”), from Hebrew ישראל (yisra'él, “Israel”). Doublet of Israel.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Yisroel?
#826 among boys’ names, 2025
Yisroel rose from #975 in 2015 to #826 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.11 to 0.18 per 1,000.
300 babies in 2025, the peak
Yisroel peaked in 2025, when 300 boys were given it, #826 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 246 boys.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 300 | #826 | 0.18 |
| 2024 | 246 | #939 | 0.14 |
| 2023 | 236 | #959 | 0.14 |
| 2022 | 242 | #945 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 241 | #942 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 200 | #1,030 | 0.12 |
| 2019 | 251 | #879 | 0.14 |
| 2018 | 194 | #1,051 | 0.11 |
| 2017 | 208 | #986 | 0.11 |
| 2016 | 216 | #957 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (69)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 213 | #975 | 0.11 |
| 2014 | 198 | #1,027 | 0.10 |
| 2013 | 196 | #1,004 | 0.10 |
| 2012 | 192 | #1,022 | 0.10 |
| 2011 | 194 | #1,005 | 0.10 |
| 2010 | 194 | #1,011 | 0.10 |
| 2009 | 186 | #1,035 | 0.09 |
| 2008 | 166 | #1,110 | 0.08 |
| 2007 | 182 | #1,037 | 0.09 |
| 2006 | 146 | #1,162 | 0.07 |
| 2005 | 169 | #1,008 | 0.08 |
| 2004 | 137 | #1,149 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 145 | #1,074 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 98 | #1,353 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 93 | #1,374 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 113 | #1,205 | 0.06 |
| 1999 | 100 | #1,245 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 105 | #1,184 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 108 | #1,147 | 0.06 |
| 1996 | 105 | #1,138 | 0.06 |
| 1995 | 77 | #1,347 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 79 | #1,317 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 80 | #1,273 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 86 | #1,216 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 93 | #1,140 | 0.05 |
| 1990 | 85 | #1,182 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 83 | #1,168 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 65 | #1,281 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 56 | #1,334 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 53 | #1,360 | 0.03 |
| 1985 | 46 | #1,483 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 71 | #1,066 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 67 | #1,094 | 0.04 |
| 1982 | 52 | #1,308 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,546 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 41 | #1,523 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 37 | #1,596 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 43 | #1,436 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 54 | #1,209 | 0.03 |
| 1976 | 32 | #1,675 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,998 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 10 | #3,554 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,402 | 0.01 |
| 1972 | 17 | #2,321 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 15 | #2,556 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 13 | #2,736 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 10 | #3,057 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,307 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,226 | under 0.01 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,942 | under 0.01 |
| 1965 | 6 | #3,924 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 9 | #3,045 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #4,043 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,896 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 7 | #3,662 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 11 | #2,657 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 6 | #3,882 | under 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,251 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,188 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Yisroel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Yisroel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 69 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Yisroel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Yisroel, and how old are they?
6,650 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 6,813 Americans ever recorded as Yisroel. The median Yisroel alive today is 16 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 4,413 people named Yisroel (8 women and girls, 4,405 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 5,287 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 43 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 312 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,080 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,290 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,920 |
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 Yisroel born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 166 | #106 | 9.6× |
| New Jersey | 109 | #87 | 9.1× |
Where Yisroel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Yisroel is most over-represented in New York: since 1950 it was given 9.6 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 Yisroel 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 8,425 babies since 1880, Yisroel is the most given (81% of them). In 2025 it was given to 300 of their 369 babies (81%), 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 Yisroel
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 Yisroel and names like it
- Compare Yisroel and YisraelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sYisroel peaked in 2025.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Yisroel since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Yisroel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Yisroel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with YMost given first.