Israel

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Israel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Israel: Recorded every year since 1996, it reached #92 in 2012, and it stood at #981 in 2024.

3registrars recorded it
52times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#92highest recorded position
11groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1999–2023

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1999	#3900
2000	#2746
2012	#3681
2013	#4050
2015	#5730
2016	#4763
2017	#5765
2020	#5493
2021	#4634
2023	#4709

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in England and Wales in every year from 1996 to 2024.

In 2020: #587 among boys in England and Wales, #637 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #1235 among boys in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Boys
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #981 among boys in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Boys

Israel appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Boys, which has ranked it in 29 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 1,312 births with the name.

Israel across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Israel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Boys	#1235 (1996)	#520 (2018)	#981 (2024)	29 of 29	1,312 (1996–2024)	75 (2018)
England and Wales · Girls	#3900 (1999)	#2746 (2000)	#4709 (2023)	10 of 25	40 (1999–2023)	6 (2012)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#273 (2001)	#273 (2001)	#637 (2020)	12 of 20	51 (2001–2020)	7 (2001)

Israel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Israel in England and Wales · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	68	4 of 10	17
2000s	288	10 of 10	29
2010sbusiest	666	10 of 10	67
2020s	290	5 of 10	58

Across England and Wales · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 67 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2023 and 2024, when recorded births fell by 35, from 66 to 31.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Israel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #92 in New Zealand in 2012.

Israel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#981	31	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4709	4	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#567	66	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#536	72	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#4634	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#618	60	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#5493	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#587	61	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#535	71	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#520	75	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#5765	3	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#554	70	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#546	71	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#5730	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#553	69	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#540	69	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#4050	5	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#555	65	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#3681	6	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#586	61	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#565	62	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#615	53	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#809	35	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#544	61	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#711	39	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#764	33	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#827	28	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#637	38	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1322	11	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1027	15	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#918	17	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#3900	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#655	26	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#1110	12	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#788	20	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1235	10	High	Verified
2012	New Zealand	male	#92	52	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#637	4	High	Verified
2019	Republic of Ireland	male	#764	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#710	3	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2014	Republic of Ireland	male	#609	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2010	Republic of Ireland	male	#611	4	High	Verified
2009	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	6	High	Verified
2004	Republic of Ireland	male	#506	3	High	Verified
2002	Republic of Ireland	male	#313	6	High	Verified
2001	Republic of Ireland	male	#273	7	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
New Zealand hub — collected by NZ Department of Internal Affairs
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 29 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #92, first reached in 2012.

It held a top-100 place in 1 year.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 75 births, registered in England and Wales in 2018.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2001, and 16 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

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A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Bronte · #92, 30y
Silas · #92, 30y
Anika · #93, 30y
Athena · #93, 30y

Israel was ranked #92 in New Zealand · Boys in 2012. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Israel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Israel without appearing here.

Israel moved ahead of

Jeanette Compare
In 2015 they stood at #5730 and #4103 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #4763 and #5785.
Belinda Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.
Cheryl Compare
In 2022 they stood at #5493 and #5493 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.
Donna Compare
In 2022 they stood at #4634 and #4634 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2023 that had become #4709 and #5687.

Moved ahead of Israel

Fiadh Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #2705.
Liv Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #1387.
Noah Compare
In 2014 they stood at #4050 and #5742 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #5730 and #3615.
Dylan Compare
In 2011 they stood at #2746 and #3912 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2012 that had become #3681 and #1720.

Moved the opposite way to Israel

Garry Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Israel went from #1235 to #567 while Garry went from #573 to #4991.
Graeme Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Israel went from #1235 to #567 while Graeme went from #755 to #4107.
Nicola Compare
Between 1996 and 2023 in England and Wales · Boys, Israel went from #1235 to #567 while Nicola went from #2863 to #4107.
Brent Compare
Between 1996 and 2022 in England and Wales · Boys, Israel went from #1235 to #536 while Brent went from #898 to #3449.

Moved the same way as Israel

Aaron Compare
Between 2001 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Israel went from #273 to #637 and Aaron from #12 to #45.
Adam Compare
Between 2001 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Israel went from #273 to #637 and Adam from #3 to #12.
Alan Compare
Between 2001 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Israel went from #273 to #637 and Alan from #59 to #204.
Andrew Compare
Between 2001 and 2020 in Republic of Ireland · Boys, Israel went from #273 to #637 and Andrew from #37 to #93.

What's not yet available

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #92 in New Zealand in 2012. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Israel

Israel at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Israel across 3 official records

Israel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Israel appears in

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Israel across 3 official records

Israel by decade in England and Wales · Boys

Israel appears in

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Also first recorded in the 1990s

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Israel and the names beside it

Israel moved ahead of

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