Fun Facts About the Name Ysrael
- 52 babies named Ysrael: U.S. records list 52 babies given the name Ysrael from 1880 through 2025.
What Does the Name Ysrael Mean?
Ysrael is a spelling variant of Israel, a Hebrew name whose customary meaning is "wrestles with God" or "God contends." The Hebrew form is Yisraʾel, traditionally analyzed as a form of the verb sarah, "to strive" or "to contend," joined with ʾel, "God." In Genesis, the name is given to Jacob after his night struggle at Peniel, and that narrative supplies the usual explanation. The exact grammatical sense is uncertain: the elements can be read as "he strives with God," "God strives," or in other ways, so the familiar translation is a traditional interpretation rather than a fully settled etymology.
Ysrael Name History & Origins
The name Ysrael belongs to the history of Israel. Its earliest Hebrew form, Yisraʾel, appears in the Hebrew Bible as the name given to Jacob and as the collective name of the Israelites. From Hebrew it passed into Greek as Israēl and Latin as Israel, the form that became standard in English and most European languages. Modern Hebrew uses Yisraʾel for both the personal name and the country. The initial Y in Ysrael reflects an older European spelling convention, particularly in Spanish, where y was sometimes used for the vowel i at the beginning of a word. Ysrael is thus a variant spelling of the same name, not a separate derivation.
Israel has long been used as a personal name among Jews, and it also appears among Christians in Europe and the Americas, where it recalls the biblical patriarch and the people of Israel. The spelling Ysrael is less common in English than Israel; it appears as a variant in Spanish-language usage, where older initial-Y spellings survive in some names. Its development is the development of Israel, with the spelling change reflecting language and orthography rather than a different origin.
How Popular is the Name Ysrael?
Ysrael has historically been an exceptionally rare given name in the United States, remaining well outside the national mainstream. It saw its highest recorded annual births in 2017. Its best rank was #8,811 in 2017.
U.S. name popularity from 1880-2025, based on SSA data. Rank shows how the name compares with other names - lower numbers mean greater popularity. Births shows how many babies received the name each year.
| Year | Rank | Births | % |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | #13,861 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2024 | #10,852 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2023 | #10,774 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2018 | #14,038 | 5 | 0.0003% |
| 2017 | #8,811 | 9 | 0.0005% |
| 2015 | #10,608 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2013 | #10,698 | 7 | 0.0004% |
| 2005 | #13,331 | 5 | 0.0003% |
Name popularity over more than a century, based on Social Security Administration data. Gaps in the chart indicate years when the name does not appear in the published records.
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How the Name Ysrael Shapes Your Personality and Life?
You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual. You hate bondage in any form. You have love of beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You are willing to take spiritual matters on faith instead of subjecting them to mental analysis. You are inventive, intuitive and extremely methodical. Since your will is so strong, you are hard to convince. You also dislike advice. You love beauty and philosophy, and you desire achievement. You have a strong need for freedom - physical, mental and spiritual.
Position and social status is very important for you and you are always looking for way to improve your position in society. You have power and ability to chose your own destiny and achieve anything you want in life. You can expand in any direction according to your will and the set of values. You have passion for justice and belong to the position of authority. You have an inherent courage and endurance to accomplish "The Impossible Dream". With the power comes responsibility. You hold keys to the material world, but with this gift comes high spiritual responsibility to be fair and true to others. You are philosophical and mature, determined and intense with a desire to endure, often religious.
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