In 2025, 28 US boys were named Isreal, making it the 3,882nd most common boys’ name of the year, up 139 places from #4,021 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 27 boys named Isreal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #659, reached in 1880. The most boys given the name in a single year was 121, in 2006. For comparison, it was #2,243 in 2015 and #1,721 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Isreal in 131 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 9 babies. In all, 4,722 US babies have been given the name, 1.2% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 964 babies named Isreal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 474 US boys were named Isreal; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 61. In 2025 that was about 1 in 61,003 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Israel (72,874 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Izreal and Ezreal are summarised on this page.