babynamesIL: Israeli Baby Names (1949-2024)

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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)

babynamesIL documentation built on April 10, 2026, 9:06 a.m.