Israèl
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Israèl is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Israel it is the 23rd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Spanish Israel (“Israel”), from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”).
- ESSpain1 in 2.5K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 4.6K
- ILIsrael≈1 in 334as ישראל
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Israèl itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Brazil (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 423 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
101,921 people, 2022
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Ecuador
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled ישראל in IL Israel, RO Romania, LB Lebanon and Israel in US United States, ES Spain, EC Ecuador.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
- SpanishIsrael“Israel”(measured from records)
- LatinIsrael(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekἸσραήλIsraḗl(measured from records)
- Hebrewיִשְׂרָאֵלyisra'él“Israel”(measured from records)
Borrowed from Spanish Israel (“Israel”), from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”).
Sources 11
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Il grande libro dei nomi per bebè. Significato, origini, curiosità. Oltre 7000 nomi per bambine e bambini Significato,…
- The Oxford Names Companion - The definitive guide to Surnames, First Names, and Place Names of the British Isles
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
Attested across 31 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Israèl counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 101,921 | 1 in 2.1K | 102K | — | 7 |
| US United States | #931 | 72,115 | 1 in 4.6K | 71K | Israel | 423 |
| IL Israel | #23 | ≈26,000 est. | ≈1 in 334 | 6.7K | ישראל | 123 |
| RO Romania | #75 | ≈25,000 est. | ≈1 in 838 | — | ישראל | 6 |
| ES Spain | — | 20,176 | 1 in 2.5K | 20K | Israel | 104 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 10,232 | 1 in 1.7K | 10K | Israel | 41 |
| LB Lebanon | #82 | ≈3,700 est. | ≈1 in 1.5K | — | ישראל | 3 |
101,921 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Israèl is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, medieval spelling of Israele
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Israèl mean, and where does it come from?
- Borrowed from Spanish Israel (“Israel”), from Latin Israel, from Ancient Greek Ἰσραήλ (Israḗl), from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (yisra'él, “Israel”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 9 other sources.
- Is Israèl a male or female name?
- Israèl is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Israèl have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Israèl, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Israèl most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Israèl is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 1.7 thousand people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Israèl?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 101,921 people named Israèl in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Israèl compared with other names?
- In Israel, Israèl is the 23rd most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Israèl?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isra%C3%A8lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Israèl” — the 23rd most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.