Isael
#988 for boys in 2025, 231 births
- Peak · boys
- 2024 · 244 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,164since 1978
Isael over time
Rank among boys' names. Isael has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #988 | 231 |
| 2024 | #942 | 244 |
| 2023 | #1,066 | 203 |
| 2022 | #1,156 | 178 |
| 2021 | #1,230 | 156 |
| 2020 | #1,423 | 121 |
| 2019 | #1,823 | 83 |
| 2018 | #1,901 | 78 |
| 2017 | #1,897 | 76 |
| 2016 | #1,936 | 75 |
| 2015 | #1,931 | 75 |
| 2014 | #2,017 | 70 |
| 2013 | #1,989 | 69 |
| 2012 | #1,562 | 101 |
| 2011 | #1,620 | 94 |
| 2010 | #1,588 | 99 |
| 2009 | #1,573 | 103 |
| 2008 | #1,620 | 96 |
| 2007 | #1,412 | 115 |
| 2006 | #1,605 | 90 |
| 2005 | #1,442 | 102 |
| 2004 | #1,530 | 87 |
| 2003 | #1,478 | 88 |
| 2002 | #1,974 | 56 |
| 2001 | #1,935 | 56 |
| 2000 | #1,875 | 56 |
| 1999 | #2,398 | 37 |
| 1998 | #1,741 | 58 |
| 1997 | #2,449 | 33 |
| 1996 | #2,380 | 33 |
| 1995 | #2,762 | 26 |
| 1994 | #2,951 | 24 |
| 1993 | #3,042 | 22 |
| 1992 | #3,220 | 20 |
| 1991 | #3,462 | 17 |
| 1990 | #3,309 | 18 |
| 1989 | #4,811 | 10 |
| 1988 | #4,786 | 9 |
| 1987 | #3,521 | 13 |
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| 1985 | #4,698 | 8 |
| 1984 | #5,561 | 6 |
| 1983 | #3,884 | 10 |
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| 1980 | #3,256 | 13 |
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| 1978 | #5,772 | 5 |
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The first year at least five boys were named Isael! It came in at #5,772, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1979, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Isael is popular in 2022
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#558 · 1 in 3,439
- Arizona#627 · 1 in 3,626
- Texas#665 · 1 in 4,156
- Massachusetts#673 · 1 in 4,608
- Colorado#716 · 1 in 4,243
Best ever in a state: #368 in New Mexico, 2005.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #558 | 55 | 1 in 3,439 |
| Arizona | #627 | 9 | 1 in 3,626 |
| Texas | #665 | 43 | 1 in 4,156 |
| Massachusetts | #673 | 6 | 1 in 4,608 |
| Colorado | #716 | 6 | 1 in 4,243 |
| Washington | #997 | 5 | 1 in 6,647 |
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See more about Isael
- 46 spots since 2024 (#942 → #988)
- 435 spots since 2020 (#1,423 → #988)
- 943 spots since 2015 (#1,931 → #988)
- Biggest jump: 124 spots in 2024 (#1,066 → #942)
- Biggest drop: 46 spots in 2025 (#942 → #988)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 2024 at #942 (244 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 2024–2025
- Highest: 1 in 7,061 boys born in 2024 were named Isael (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 7,394 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 35.8% of all boys named Isael (1,133) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 5 | #5,772 (1978) | #5,772 |
| 1980s | 69 | #3,256 (1980) | #4,360 |
| 1990s | 288 | #1,741 (1998) | #2,771 |
| 2000s | 849 | #1,412 (2007) | #1,644 |
| 2010s | 820 | #1,562 (2012) | #1,826 |
| 2020s | 1,133 | #942 (2024) | #1,134 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Isael in 2022
Top boys' names in 2022
More about 2022
boys
1,746,008 boys got a published name in 2022; 1 in 9,809 of them was named Isael, which outranked 91.9% of the 14,333 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 7.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,152Terrance180
- #1,152Tzvi180
- #1,155Wiley179
- #1,156Isael178
- #1,156Bastian178
- #1,156Caysen178
- #1,156Coleman178
- #1,163Kaius177
- #1,163Kyaire177
- #1,163Toby177
Tied with 6 names at #1,156; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.