Yishay
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 3 countries · latest register: SSA, 2016
Yishay is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Israel than in any other country.
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 5.9Mfew records(inferred from the name graph)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 1.8Kas ישי
- GYGuyana1 in 750Kas Ishay
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 Yishay itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. 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
- 95 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 97K (inferred from the name graph)
≈5,500 named ישי, est.
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)Locally spelled Ishay in US United States, IN India, NG Nigeria, ישי in IL Israel, ET Ethiopia and Ishai in NL Netherlands.
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Yishay 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 | #348 | ≈5,500 est. | ≈1 in 1.8K | 1.8K | ישי | 65 |
| US United States | — | 298as Yishai | 1 in 1.1M | 297 | Ishay | 95 |
| IN India | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 5.2M | 22 | Ishay | 5 |
| ET Ethiopia | — | ≈64 est. | ≈1 in 2.1M | — | ישי | 3 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈62 est. | ≈1 in 3.8M | — | Ishay | 6 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 20as Ishai | 1 in 864K | 20 | Ishai | 4 |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈14 est. | ≈1 in 97K | — | Yishay | 5 |
| GY Guyana | — | 1as Ishay | 1 in 750K | 1 | — | 1 |
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; Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)Evidence
(measured from records)5 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 3 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Yishay a male or female name?
- Yishay 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 Yishay have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 5.5 thousand people named ישי in Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Yishay?
- In the United States, the national register counted 298 people named Yishai in 2020, about 1 in 1.1 million residents.
- How common is Yishay compared with other names?
- In Israel, Yishay is the 348th 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/yishayThe 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, “Yishay” — the 348th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.