Every name in the Bible’s genealogies, from Adam to David: who begot whom, how long they lived, the seventy nations of Noah’s sons and the seventy souls who went down to Egypt. Then the same names in Israel, where some were given to tens of thousands of babies and some to none at all. See all twelve lists at once, or pick one.
Beyond David — Kings of Judah vs Israel: whose names do Israeli parents still give?
Adam at the centre; each ring is a generation. Dot size is how many Israeli babies got the name in the years and groups you’ve filtered; a hollow dot is a name with no Israeli birth record at all. Dashed lines are marriages. Tap a name.
Everyone whose lifespan the text gives, dated from Creation (Anno Mundi) by adding up the begetting ages. Drag the year, or press play and watch the lifespans shrink after the Flood.
Babies born in Israel 1949–2024 with each figure’s name, by the filters above. Source: the Central Bureau of Statistics. Names given to fewer than five babies in a year are not counted that year, and a name given to fewer than five babies in all is not in the records.
Text: the genealogies of Genesis 4–5, 10, 11, 22, 25, 29–30, 35, 36 and 46, Exodus 6 and Ruth 4, from Sefaria (Miqra according to the Masorah; English from the JPS Tanakh, gender-sensitive edition). Dates from Creation are the plain sum of the begetting ages in the Masoretic text, the reckoning of Seder Olam: the Flood in 1656, Abram born 1948, Isaac 2048, Jacob 2108, Joseph 2199 (39 when Jacob, at 130, came to Egypt in 2238). Levi’s birth (2195) and the Exodus (2448), which dates Moses and Aaron, follow Seder Olam. The Septuagint and Samaritan texts give different ages.
Israeli names: Central Bureau of Statistics, release 391/2025, names of babies born in Israel 1949–2024 by population group and sex, via the CC0 babynamesIL package by Aviezer Lifshitz. Yearly counts only include a name in years when five or more babies got it; all-time totals include every registration, but only for names given to at least five babies of one sex in a population group over the whole period. A name “not on record” fell below that line: a handful of babies, or none. Names are matched by Hebrew spelling, including the Arabic forms of the same figure (Ibrahim, Musa, Yusuf, Da’ud, Hajar), so homographs are flagged where the data is clearly a different name (Saba for Seba, Alon for Elon, Bakr for Becher).
Wikipedia summaries, and the people on Hebrew Wikipedia who carry each name, are fetched live from Wikipedia, Hebrew Wikipedia and Wikidata when you open a name. Data and build script: scripts/genealogies/build-data.py.