| Title: | Israel Baby Names 1949-2024 |
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| Description: | Israeli baby names provided by Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS/LAMAS). Contains names used for at least 5 children in a given year, covering sectors "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian-Arab", and "Druze" from 1949-2024. Legacy 1948 data and archived "Other" sector data are provided as separate datasets. Primary data source: CBS Release 391/2025 <https://www.cbs.gov.il/he/mediarelease/DocLib/2025/391/11_25_391t1.xlsx>. |
| Authors: | Aviezer Lifshitz [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Aviezer Lifshitz <[email protected]> |
| License: | CC0 |
| Version: | 0.2.3 |
| Built: | 2026-06-07 06:52:05 UTC |
| Source: | https://github.com/aviezerl/babynamesil |
Names given to babies born in Israel from 1949-2024, sourced from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS/LAMAS).
babynamesILbabynamesIL
A tibble with six columns:
Demographic sector (character): "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian-Arab", or "Druze"
Birth year (numeric): 1949-2024
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
Count of babies given this name in that year (integer)
Proportion of babies with this name within the year/sector/sex group (numeric, 0-1)
The primary data source is CBS release 391/2025, which contains comprehensive baby name statistics from 1949 to 2024. The data is filtered to include only names given to at least 5 babies in a given year.
Data was downloaded from: CBS Release 391/2025
The data covers four demographic sectors:
Jewish - Jewish population
Muslim - Muslim population
Christian-Arab - Christian Arab population
Druze - Druze population
babynamesIL_1948: Legacy 1948 data (from earlier CBS release)
babynamesIL_other: Archived "Other" sector data (1985-2021)
babynamesIL_totals: Aggregated totals by name/sector/sex
"Christian" sector renamed to "Christian-Arab"
"Other" sector removed from main data (see babynamesIL_other)
1948 data moved to separate object (see babynamesIL_1948)
babynamesIL_totals, babynamesIL_1948, babynamesIL_other
# Most popular names in 2024 library(dplyr) babynamesIL |> filter(year == 2024, sector == "Jewish") |> group_by(sex) |> slice_max(n, n = 5) # Names over time babynamesIL |> filter(name == "\u05E0\u05D5\u05E2\u05DD", sector == "Jewish") |> select(year, sex, n, prop)# Most popular names in 2024 library(dplyr) babynamesIL |> filter(year == 2024, sector == "Jewish") |> group_by(sex) |> slice_max(n, n = 5) # Names over time babynamesIL |> filter(name == "\u05E0\u05D5\u05E2\u05DD", sector == "Jewish") |> select(year, sex, n, prop)
Baby name data from 1948, preserved from an earlier CBS release. This data is kept separate as the primary dataset (babynamesIL) now uses CBS release 391/2025 which starts from 1949.
babynamesIL_1948babynamesIL_1948
A tibble with six columns:
Demographic sector (character): "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian", or "Druze"
Birth year (numeric): 1948
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
Count of babies given this name (integer)
Proportion within the year/sector/sex group (numeric, 0-1)
This dataset was extracted from the original babynamesIL package (versions prior to 0.1.0) which used a different CBS source file. The 1948 data represents the first full year of Israeli statehood.
Note that the "Other" sector was not reported in 1948 data.
This dataset uses "Christian" (not "Christian-Arab") as the sector name, matching the terminology from the original data source.
Archived baby name data for the "Other" demographic sector (1985-2021). This sector is no longer published by CBS in recent releases.
babynamesIL_otherbabynamesIL_other
A tibble with six columns:
Demographic sector (character): "Other"
Birth year (numeric): 1985-2021
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
Count of babies given this name (integer)
Proportion within the year/sector/sex group (numeric, 0-1)
The "Other" sector included populations not classified as Jewish, Muslim, Christian, or Druze. CBS discontinued publishing this sector in their baby names statistics after 2021.
This dataset preserves the historical "Other" sector data for research purposes. It was extracted from babynamesIL versions prior to 0.1.0.
This dataset is provided for historical reference. The "Other" sector is no longer updated and should be used with appropriate caveats in any analysis.
Total count of babies per name across all years (1949-2024), by sector and sex.
These totals come directly from the CBS source data and include all registrations,
even from years where the name was given to fewer than 5 babies. This means the
totals may be higher than the sum of yearly counts in babynamesIL,
which only includes years with at least 5 babies.
babynamesIL_totalsbabynamesIL_totals
A tibble with four columns:
Demographic sector (character): "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian-Arab", or "Druze"
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
Total count across all years, including years below the 5-baby threshold (integer)
# Most popular names of all time in the Jewish sector library(dplyr) babynamesIL_totals |> filter(sector == "Jewish") |> group_by(sex) |> slice_max(total, n = 10)# Most popular names of all time in the Jewish sector library(dplyr) babynamesIL_totals |> filter(sector == "Jewish") |> group_by(sex) |> slice_max(total, n = 10)