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How popular is “Yisrael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Yisrael” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Yisrael” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Yisrael” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Yisrael” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Yisrael” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Yisrael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Yisrael” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1976 7 0.000002307 7 -100%
1977 8 0.000002518 8 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1982 6 0.00000171 6 -100%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 8 0.000002293 8 -100%
1985 5 0.000001401 5 -100%
1986 8 0.000002249 8 -100%
1987 7 0.000001941 7 -100%
1988 11 0.000002977 11 -100%
1989 12 0.000003121 12 -100%
1990 10 0.00000253 10 -100%
1991 11 0.000002824 11 -100%
1992 10 0.000002603 10 -100%
1993 12 0.000003183 12 -100%
1994 12 0.000003228 12 -100%
1995 20 0.000005461 20 -100%
1996 13 0.000003564 13 -100%
1997 14 0.000003861 14 -100%
1998 14 0.000003806 14 -100%
1999 12 0.000003249 12 -100%
2000 17 0.000004497 17 -100%
2001 32 0.000008548 32 -100%
2002 22 0.000005885 22 -100%
2003 17 0.000004471 17 -100%
2004 28 0.000007328 28 -100%
2005 35 0.000009103 35 -100%
2006 44 0.000011122 44 -100%
2007 41 0.000010256 41 -100%
2008 44 0.000011194 44 -100%
2009 45 0.00001178 45 -100%
2010 42 0.000011364 42 -100%
2011 55 0.000015036 55 -100%
2012 49 0.000013398 49 -100%
2013 59 0.000016184 59 -100%
2014 62 0.000016728 62 -100%
2015 57 0.000015402 57 -100%
2016 68 0.000018535 68 -100%
2017 65 0.000018176 65 -100%
2018 74 0.000021047 74 -100%
2019 73 0.000021032 73 -100%
2020 64 0.000019158 64 -100%
2021 58 0.00001712 58 -100%
2022 77 0.00002276 77 -100%
2023 69 0.000020838 69 -100%
2024 81 0.000024335 81 -100%

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