Israel
31
Babies in 2024
-55%
10-year change
2018
Peak · 75
-53%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Israel
Israel has been falling out of fashion as a UK boy's name. In 2024, 31 boys were registered with the name in England & Wales — down 55% on a decade earlier.
Israel reached its peak in 2018, when 75 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #520 for UK boys that year. That's roughly 41% of the peak — registrations have thinned out since.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 1,312 boys have been officially registered with the name Israel in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 715 boys were registered with the name, starting from 69 in 2014 and ending at 31 in 2024.