| Title: | Israel Baby Names 1949-2024 |
| Version: | 0.2.1 |
| 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. |
| License: | CC0 |
| URL: | https://github.com/aviezerl/babynamesIL, https://aviezerl.github.io/babynamesIL/ |
| BugReports: | https://github.com/aviezerl/babynamesIL/issues |
| Imports: | tibble |
| Suggests: | testthat (≥ 3.0.0), dplyr, purrr, tidyr, knitr, rmarkdown |
| Config/testthat/edition: | 3 |
| Encoding: | UTF-8 |
| LazyData: | true |
| LazyDataCompression: | xz |
| Language: | en-US |
| RoxygenNote: | 7.3.2 |
| Depends: | R (≥ 4.1.0) |
| NeedsCompilation: | no |
| Packaged: | 2026-03-05 09:48:58 UTC; aviezerl |
| Author: | Aviezer Lifshitz [aut, cre] |
| Maintainer: | Aviezer Lifshitz <aviezer.lifshitz@weizmann.ac.il> |
| Repository: | CRAN |
| Date/Publication: | 2026-03-05 10:10:02 UTC |
Israeli Baby Names (1949-2024)
Description
Names given to babies born in Israel from 1949-2024, sourced from the Israeli Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS/LAMAS).
Usage
babynamesIL
Format
A tibble with six columns:
- sector
Demographic sector (character): "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian-Arab", or "Druze"
- year
Birth year (numeric): 1949-2024
- sex
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
- name
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
- n
Count of babies given this name in that year (integer)
- prop
Proportion of babies with this name within the year/sector/sex group (numeric, 0-1)
Details
Data Sources
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
Sectors
The data covers four demographic sectors:
-
Jewish- Jewish population -
Muslim- Muslim population -
Christian-Arab- Christian Arab population -
Druze- Druze population
Related Datasets
-
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
Breaking Changes (v0.1.0)
"Christian" sector renamed to "Christian-Arab"
"Other" sector removed from main data (see
babynamesIL_other)1948 data moved to separate object (see
babynamesIL_1948)
See Also
babynamesIL_totals, babynamesIL_1948, babynamesIL_other
Examples
# 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)
Israeli Baby Names - 1948 Legacy Data
Description
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.
Usage
babynamesIL_1948
Format
A tibble with six columns:
- sector
Demographic sector (character): "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian", or "Druze"
- year
Birth year (numeric): 1948
- sex
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
- name
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
- n
Count of babies given this name (integer)
- prop
Proportion within the year/sector/sex group (numeric, 0-1)
Details
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.
Note
This dataset uses "Christian" (not "Christian-Arab") as the sector name, matching the terminology from the original data source.
See Also
Israeli Baby Names - "Other" Sector Archive
Description
Archived baby name data for the "Other" demographic sector (1985-2021). This sector is no longer published by CBS in recent releases.
Usage
babynamesIL_other
Format
A tibble with six columns:
- sector
Demographic sector (character): "Other"
- year
Birth year (numeric): 1985-2021
- sex
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
- name
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
- n
Count of babies given this name (integer)
- prop
Proportion within the year/sector/sex group (numeric, 0-1)
Details
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.
Note
This dataset is provided for historical reference. The "Other" sector is no longer updated and should be used with appropriate caveats in any analysis.
See Also
Israeli Baby Names - Aggregated Totals
Description
Total count of babies per name across all years (1949-2024), by sector and sex.
Usage
babynamesIL_totals
Format
A tibble with four columns:
- sector
Demographic sector (character): "Jewish", "Muslim", "Christian-Arab", or "Druze"
- sex
Sex (character): "M" for male, "F" for female
- name
Baby name in Hebrew (character)
- total
Total count across all years (integer)
See Also
Examples
# 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)