Yigal
given name · Latin script
Meaning: männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 11 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
Yigal is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- NLNetherlands1 in 751K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 3.4M
- ILIsrael≈1 in 870as יגאל
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 Yigal 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 (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 144 (measured from records)
- 1 in 751K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 named יגאל, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled Igal in US United States, GB United Kingdom, CL Chile and 3 more and יגאל in IL Israel.
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)männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von
Cited for this meaning 1
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Attested across 6 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yigal 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 | #137 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 871 | 263 | יגאל | 93 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈340 est. | ≈1 in 829K | — | Yigal | 17 |
| US United States | — | 242as Igal | 1 in 1.4M | 239 | Igal | 144 |
| CL Chile | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 170K | 2 | Igal | 37 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈56 est. | ≈1 in 1.2M | — | Igal | 39 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈43 est. | ≈1 in 32K | — | Igal | 6 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈29 est. | ≈1 in 318K | — | Igal | 7 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 23 | 1 in 751K | 23 | Yigal | 11 |
| UY Uruguay | — | 16as Igal | 1 in 212K | 16 | Igal | 7 |
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; SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); INE Uruguay — Nombres 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Yigal Mossinsonb. 1917ILIsraeli writer (1917-1994)
- Yigal Allonb. 1918ILIsraeli politician, general, acting prime minister of Israel (1918–1980)
- Yigal Hurvitzb. 1918ILIsraeli politician (1918–1994)
- Yigal Tumarkinb. 1933DEGerman-born Israeli sculptor (1933-2021)
- Yigal Cohen-Orgadb. 1937ILIsraeli politician (1937-2019)
- Yigal Ravidb. 1957ILIsraeli journalist
- Yigal Naorb. 1958ILIsraeli actor
- Yigal Adikab. 1959ILIsraeli actor
- Yigal Yasinovb. 1966ILIsraeli politician
- Yigal Amirb. 1970ILIsraeli extremist and murder convict
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)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 11 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 189 | #39,783 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 23 | #10,770 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 13 | #24,870 |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1996 | 1 | — |
| CL Chile | SRCEI — Nombres más comunes (guaguas, 1920–2021) | 1970 | 1 | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
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 Yigal mean, and where does it come from?
- männl. Vom., neuhebräische Form von Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen.
- Is Yigal a male or female name?
- Yigal is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020).
- In which country does Yigal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named יגאל in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Yigal most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Yigal is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 751 thousand people — even though Israel holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Yigal?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 23 people named Yigal, about 1 in 751 thousand residents.
- How common is Yigal compared with other names?
- In Israel, Yigal is the 137th 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/yigalThe 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, “Yigal” — the 137th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.