Yisrael
English edit
Etymology edit
Variant of Israel.
Proper noun edit
Yisrael (plural Yisraels)
- A surname from Hebrew.
Statistics edit
- According to the 2010 United States Census, Yisrael is the 41038th most common surname in the United States, belonging to 531 individuals. Yisrael is most common among Black/African American (80.04%) and White (10.73%) individuals.
See also edit
Further reading edit
- Hanks, Patrick, editor (2003), “Yisrael”, in Dictionary of American Family Names, volume 3, New York City: Oxford University Press, →ISBN.
Ladino edit
Etymology edit
Borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisra'el).
Proper noun edit
Yisrael (Latin spelling)
- Israel (a modern country in Western Asia, in the Middle East, at the eastern shore of the Mediterranean)
- (biblical) Israel (A Biblical region of Western Asia roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel, known in the Bible as the Land of Israel and considered the ancestral homeland of the Jewish people)
- (biblical, biblical, historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
- (biblical, , biblical, , historical, biblical, historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom that occupied the northern part of the Land of Israel and modern State of Israel, as distinct from Judah)
- a male given name from Hebrew