In 2025, 64 US boys were named Yisrael, making it the 2,227th most common boys’ name of the year, down 307 places from #1,920 in 2024. That is 19 fewer than the 83 boys named Yisrael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,920, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #2,327 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Yisrael in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1976 with 7 babies. In all, 1,560 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 605 babies named Yisrael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 696 US boys were named Yisrael; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 83. In 2025 that was about 1 in 26,689 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Yisrael ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #468 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Yisroel (6,813 babies since 1880).