Yerushalmi
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Jerusalem
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
Yerushalmi is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 2.3M(measured from records)
- PLPoland1 in 2.4M
- ILIsrael1 in 3.5Kas ירושלמי
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 Yerushalmi 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.
- Israel (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 88 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 213K (inferred from the name graph)
2,455 named ירושלמי, 2017
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Cyprus, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled ירושלמי in IL Israel, PL Poland.
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)Jerusalem
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
Attested across 3 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yerushalmi 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IL Israel | #401 | 2,455as ירושלמי | 1 in 3.5K | 2.5K | ירושלמי | 55 |
| US United States | — | 142 | 1 in 2.3M | 142 | Yerushalmi | 88 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 24as Jerusalmi | 1 in 141K | 24 | — | 1 |
| PL Poland | — | 16 | 1 in 2.4M | 9 | ירושלמי | 3 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 5.7M | 10 | Yerushalmi | 12 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 213K | — | Yerushalmi | 3 |
2,455 people counted by CBS Israel — Family names in Israel, 2017 ("שמות משפחה בישראל 2017"), 2017. 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 — Surname Frequency 2010; dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)Yerushalmi 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, Of Jerusalem.
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)- Nachum Jerushalmib. 1890ILnot in their usual nameHebrew author, teacher and editor
- Rina Yerushalmib. 1939ILIsraeli theater director and choreographer
- David Yerushalmib. 1956USUSA lawyer, political activist (b. 1956)
- Rachel Yerushalmi-Rozenb. 1962ILresearcher
- Esti Yerushalmib. 1967ILIsraeli actress
- Yifat Yerushalmi Tomerb. 1974ILMilitary Advocate General of the Israel Defense Forces
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)9 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 142 | #121,590 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 133 | #132,523 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 116 | #134,037 |
| GB United Kingdom | Surnames of England and Wales (taliesin-arlein.net, Sept 2002 electoral register) | 2002 | 10 | #143,714 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 9 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 9 | #148,820 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 7 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 7 | #172,262 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 Yerushalmi mean, and where does it come from?
- Jerusalem Recorded by Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,….
- In which country does Yerushalmi have the most bearers?
- In Israel, the national register counted about 2.5 thousand people named ירושלמי, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yerushalmi?
- In the United States, the national register counted 142 people named Yerushalmi in 2010, about 1 in 2.3 million residents.
- How common is Yerushalmi compared with other names?
- In Israel, Yerushalmi is the 401st most common surname of 325,634 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/yerushalmiThe 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, “Yerushalmi” — the 401st most common surname in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.