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Ishmael

Pronounced /ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əl/

Rank in 2024
#1,502
Born in 2024
119
Peak year
2017 · #1183
Origin
Hebrew

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 119 boys were named Ishmael, about 1 in every 14,414.
  • It peaked in 2017 with 158 babies, ranked #1183.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 6,671 boys have been named Ishmael since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Ishmael per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

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Greatest: 587 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Silent: 355 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Boomers: 303 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Gen X: 504 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Millennials: 1,284 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Z: 2,008 babies, 0.06 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,607 babies, 0.07 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él (yišmāʿēl), “God hears, God will hear”). Doublet of Ismail.

  • A male given name from Hebrew.
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
/ˈɪʃ.meɪ.əl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Ishmael, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyRising

    Ismael

    Rank
    #234
    Born '24
    1,532
    Origin
    —
    1880peak 20242024
  • GirlBoyUncommon

    Ismail

    Rank
    #1,227
    Born '24
    163
    Origin
    Arabic
    1880peak 20162024