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English
Etymology
Variant of Israel.
Proper noun
Yisrael (plural Yisraels)
- A surname from Hebrew.
Statistics
- 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.
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Further reading
Ladino
Etymology
Borrowed from Hebrew יִשְׂרָאֵל (Yisra'el).
Proper noun
Yisrael (Latin spelling)
- Israel (a 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)
- (historical) Israel (an ancient kingdom in Western Asia, roughly coextensive with the modern State of Israel and the Land of Israel)
- (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
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