Israil
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ɪsɹeɪl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Israil is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: another name of Prophet Ya'qub.
- KGKyrgyzstan≈1 in 17Kas Исраил(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 32Kas Israel
- KZKazakhstan1 in 70Kas Исраил
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Israil itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 105 (measured from records)
- 1 in 408K (inferred from the name graph)
10,245 named Israel, 2010
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Исраил in KG Kyrgyzstan, KZ Kazakhstan, FI Finland and Israel in US United States, ES Spain.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
another name of Prophet Ya'qub
Sources 1
- A Dictionary of Muslim Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Israil counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | 10,245as Israel | 1 in 32K | 71K | Israel | 87 |
| KG Kyrgyzstan | ≈350 est. | ≈1 in 17K | — | Исраил | 10 |
| NL Netherlands | 297as Israël | 1 in 58K | 297 | Israil | 3 |
| KZ Kazakhstan | 272as Исраил | 1 in 70K | 272 | Исраил | 32 |
| ES Spain | 235as Israel | 1 in 213K | 20K | Israel | 23 |
| FI Finland | 45as Israel | 1 in 124K | 695 | Исраил | 2 |
| SE Sweden | 25 | 1 in 408K | 411 | — | 2 |
10,245 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); 2021 National Population Census — popular surnames of Kazakhs, by region of residence; DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); CBG Familienamenbank — Dutch surname bearer counts (GBA/BRP 2007). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Israil is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In crh, Israel (a country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Arabic, another name of Prophet Ya'qub
as a nameA Dictionary of Muslim Names
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Israel Aksenfeldb. 1787UAnot in their usual nameRussian Jewish writer
- Irving Berlinb. 1888USnot in their usual nameAmerican composer and lyricist (1888–1989)
- Izrail Agolb. 1891BYnot in their usual nameSoviet biologist and philosopher (1891-1937)
- Izrail Leplevskyb. 1896BYnot in their usual nameSoviet security officer (1896–1938)
- Israel Schiffmannb. 1903UAnot in their usual nameRussian chess composer (1903–1930)
- Izrail Metterb. 1909RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1909–1996)
- Izrail Nestyevb. 1911RUnot in their usual nameSoviet musicologist
- Israel Fisanovichb. 1914UAnot in their usual nameRussian military officer (1914–1944)
- Israel Gusmanb. 1917RUnot in their usual nameSoviet conductor and professor of music (1917–2003)
- Israil Bercovicib. 1921RORomanian writer (1921-1988)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 23 sources across 13 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #31,198 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 15 | #32,002 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 11 | #34,218 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Israil mean, and where does it come from?
- another name of Prophet Ya'qub Recorded by A Dictionary of Muslim Names.
- How do you pronounce Israil?
- A machine transcription gives /ɪsɹeɪl/ (IPA) for Hindi.
- In which country does Israil have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 10 thousand people named Israel, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Israil most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Israil is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 408 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Israil?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 25 people named Israil, about 1 in 408 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Israil?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/israilThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Israil”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.