[Update: The list for 2019 is now available.]

My annual posting of the top 101 Jewish boys and girls names in Israel are popular posts on this site. Usually the data for a given calendar year is posted over a year after that calendar year comes to an end. Possibly due to the ongoing upgrade of the Central Bureau of Statistic’s web site over the past year, I don’t think the 2017 names data was posted until this week when it was released together with the 2018 data. That’s late for the 2017 data but early for the 2018 data. Therefore I’m combining both sets of data for this post, and also include the 2016 ranking information for comparison. You can also see the posts for 2016 (which includes rankings for 2015 and 2014), 2015 and 2014. You can also see the parallel post 101 Most Popular Jewish Girls Names in Israel in 2017 and 2018.

Seven boys names broke into the list in 2017 – Aryeh (484 to 72), Leo (113 to 97), Yedidya (107 to 99), Re’em (117 to 92), Dan (106 to 93), Ofek (109 to 94), and Elazar (102 to 100). The names that left the list in 2017 were Leroi (76 to 103), Yinon (93 to 106), Shai (98 to 109), Yaheli (86 to 105), Oz (97 to 108), Ron (83 to 115), and Osher (99 to 120).

In 2018, there were also seven names that broke into the list – Ray (136 to 83), Levy (119 to 93), Leroi (103 to 95), Yinon (106 to 93), Shai (109 to 98), Arbel (107 to 100), and Yarden/Jordan (117 to 101). Note that Leroi, Yinon and Shai were all on the list in 2016, left the list in 2017, then returned in 2018. The names that left the list in 2018 were Tom (90 to 103), Ofek (94 to 104), Aryeh (72 to 105), Uriah (82 to 108), Elazar (100 to 112), Asaf (76 to 118), and Dvir (98 to 119). Note that Ofek, Aryeh, and Elazar were not on the list in 2016, were added in 2017, and left the list again in 2018.

All the columns in the table below can be used to sort the table, so you can sort the table to see the order of ranking for each year, or by the spelling of the name in Hebrew or English. You can also search the table using the search field on the top right of the table. Because there are two years of new data I’ve included the total number of boys who were named with these names for both 2017 and 2018. For 2016 only the ranking is shown, but you can see the totals on the 2016 post if you’re interested. Also note that there are actually more than 101 names below, as I wanted to make sure all the names that were in the top 101 for both 2017 and 2018 showed up in the table.

Name (Hebrew)	Name (English)	2018 Rank	2018 #	2017 Rank	2017 #	2016 Rank
דָּוִד	David	1	1447	1	1465	2
אֲרִיאֵל	Ariel	2	1323	5	1321	4
נוֹעַם	Noam	3	1253	3	1342	1
לָבִיא	Lavi	4	1224	7	1184	13
יוֹסֵף	Yosef (Joseph)	5	1174	2	1354	5
אורי	Uri/Ori	6	1135	4	1340	3
אֵיתָן	Eitan (Ethan)	7	1133	6	1223	6
דָּנִיֵּאל	Daniel	8	1053	10	1073	7
יְהוּדָה	Yehuda (Judah)	9	1031	11	1072	11
מֹשֶׁה	Moshe	10	1016	8	1109	10
רְפָאֵל	Raphael	11	977	14	924	21
אַהֲרוֹן	Aharon (Aaron)	12	968	27	634	45
אִיתַּי	Itai	13	929	9	1107	8
יְהוֹנָתָן	Yehonatan	14	915	12	1001	9
יִשְׂרָאֵל	Yisrael (Israel)	15	884	15	880	14
אַבְרָהָם	Abraham	16	883	13	988	12
שְׁמוּאֵל	Shmuel (Samuel)	17	815	19	762	22
עוֹמֶר	Omer	18	741	18	786	16
מִיכָאֵל	Michael	19	723	21	737	24
אִיתָמָר	Itamar	20	722	17	800	15
יַעֲקֹב	Yaakov (Jacob)	21	719	16	844	19
אַלְיָה	Eliya	22	711	23	704	20
יָאִיר	Yair	23	665	20	750	18
יִצְחָק	Yitzchak (Isaac)	24	665	26	683	25
יוֹנָתָן	Yonatan (Jonathan)	25	662	24	689	17
עִידּוֹ	Ido	26	634	22	711	23
אֲרִי	Ari	27	629	41	453	56
שִׁמְעוֹן	Shimon (Simon)	28	622	25	683	28
חַיִּים	Chaim	29	591	28	626	26
יַנַּאי	Yanai	30	584	42	446	44
שְׁלֹמֹה	Shlomo (Solomon)	31	568	30	584	31
הַרְאֵל	Harel	32	557	29	590	27
אִימְרִי	Imri	33	547	33	553	61
אַלּוֹן	Elon	34	536	32	560	30
עָמִית	Amit	35	486	31	563	29
עִילָּאִי	Ilay	36	479	37	474	33
מֵאִיר	Meir	37	479	40	455	38
נִיתַּאי	Nitai	38	471	43	438	41
מָרְדְּכַי	Mordechai	39	459	46	424	40
אָדָם	Adam	40	456	34	519	39
גַּיְא	Guy	41	454	36	484	34
נְהוֹרַאי	Nehorai	42	445	39	459	36
בֵּן	Ben	43	444	45	428	35
יִשַׁי	Yishai	44	442	50	401	43
אוֹר	Or	45	421	47	422	42
מְנַחֵם	Menachem	46	421	49	403	50
בִּנְיָמִין	Benjamin	47	418	44	432	47
לִיאַם	Liam	48	413	35	490	46
נְתַנְאֵל	Netanel	49	404	38	465	37
אֵלִיָּהוּ	Eliyahu	50	379	51	396	48
אֵלרוֹאִי	Elroi	51	361	52	366	55
מָאוֹר	Maor	52	357	53	362	62
אָבִיב	Aviv	53	339	63	296	68
רוֹי	Roy/Roi	54	336	66	283	88
עוֹמֶרִי	Omri	55	332	54	359	32
נָתָן	Natan (Nathan)	56	328	48	404	53
בְּאֵרִי	Beeri	57	319	58	315	65
בְּנָיָה	Bnaya	58	319	56	334	59
הלל	Hillel/Hallel	59	314	57	324	51
יוּבַל	Yuval	60	309	60	311	54
רוֹם	Rom	61	299	64	288	69
רוֹעִי	Roi	62	298	55	339	52
שַׁחַר	Shachar	63	284	62	298	67
נָדָב	Nadav	64	282	61	308	49
צְבִי	Zvi	65	282	70	240	84
אֶבְיָתָר	Eviatar	66	279	59	315	64
נָוֶה	Neveh	67	275	65	286	71
אֶלְחָנָן	Elchanan	68	247	77	230	79
נֵרִיָּה	Neriah	69	244	78	228	87
דּוֹר	Dor	70	243	83	221	75
לִיאוֹר	Lior	71	236	68	270	60
יוֹאָב	Yoav	72	233	69	268	57
אוּרִיאֵל	Uriel	73	229	85	221	78
אייל	Eyal	74	223	75	231	80
נְבוֹ	Nevo	75	223	80	225	66
מַתָּן	Matan	76	222	84	221	58
לִיאוֹ	Leo	77	221	97	187	113
אֲבִיאֵל	Aviel	78	219	67	273	63
יַהַב	Yahav	79	216	74	231	82
מַלְאָכִי	Malachi	80	214	86	221	77
אוֹפִיר	Ophir	81	212	79	226	72
אֱלִיאָב	Eliav	82	210	87	217	90
ריי	Ray	83	205	136	120	173
שָׁלוֹם	Shalom	84	205	71	238	85
מַעֲיָין	Maayan	85	203	88	214	101
אֲמִיתַּי	Amitai	86	202	89	213	81
יְדִידְיָה	Yedidya	87	199	99	184	107
עִידָּן	Idan	88	198	73	232	70
נַחְמָן	Nachman	89	197	81	222	74
גַּבְרִיאֵל	Gabriel	90	193	95	193	92
רְאֵם	Re’em	91	187	92	201	117
שִׁילֹה	Shilo	92	183	101	178	91
לֵוִי	Levy	93	183	119	146	114
אֵלִיעֶזֶר	Eliezer	94	182	91	202	95
לִירוֹי	Leroi	95	181	103	177	76
דָּן	Dan	96	180	93	200	106
אַדִּיר	Adir	97	177	96	188	94
יִנּוֹן	Yinon	98	176	106	174	93
שַׁי	Shai	99	173	109	164	98
אַרְבֵּל	Arbel	100	172	107	172	115
יַרְדֵּן	Yarden (Jordan)	101	170	117	152	127
יָהֵלִי	Yaheli	102	169	105	175	86
תּוֹם	Tom	103	168	90	207	100
אוֹפֶק	Ofek	104	167	94	198	109
אַרְיֵה	Aryeh	105	167	72	236	484
עוֹז	Oz	106	164	108	165	97
רִיף	Reef	107	163	143	113	211
אוּרִיָּה	Uriah	108	162	82	221	89
רוֹן	Ron	109	162	115	156	83
פֶּלֶג	Peleg	110	158	128	130	144
יָגֵל	Yagel	111	158	112	160	116
אֵלעָזָר	Elazar	112	156	100	183	102
בַּר	Bar	113	153	125	138	137
גַּל	Gal	114	152	114	157	119
אָשֵׁר	Asher	115	151	121	144	134
יְהוֹשֻׁעַ	Yehoshua (Joshua)	116	151	104	176	122
פִּנְחָס	Pinchas (Phineas)	117	151	113	159	111
אָסָף	Asaf	118	149	76	230	73
דְּבִיר	Dvir	119	146	98	187	96