Israël
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Israël 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.
- 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 Israël 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)
Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 30 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Israël 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)
Israël 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 English, Obsolete and non-native speakers' English spelling of Israel.
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.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Baal Shem Tovb. 1698UAnot in their usual namePolish founder of Hasidic Judaism (1698–1760)
- Israel Putnamb. 1718USAmerican Revolutionary War general (1718–1790)
- Paul Reuterb. 1816DEnot in their usual nameGerman-Jewish-born British entrepreneur and news agency founder (1816–1899)
- Israel Zangwillb. 1864GBBritish Zionist author (1864–1926)
- Irving Berlinb. 1888USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer and lyricist (1888–1989)
- Ira Gershwinb. 1896USnot in their usual nameAmerican lyricist (1896–1983)
- Israel Gelfandb. 1913USSoviet-American mathematician
- Israel Kirznerb. 1930USAmerican economist
- Israel Kamakawiwoʻoleb. 1959USHawaiian singer (1959–1997)
- Israel Broussardb. 1994USAmerican actor
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 12 sources across 8 countries.
Reference works 3
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Israël mean, and where does it come from?
- Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Israël a male or female name?
- Israël 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 Israël have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 102 thousand people named Israël, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Israël most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Israël 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 Israël?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 101,921 people named Israël in 2022, about 1 in 2.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Israël compared with other names?
- In Israel, Israël is the 23rd most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/isra%C3%ABlThe 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, “Israël” — the 23rd most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.