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Ismail

Rank in 2024
#1,227
Born in 2024
163
Peak year
2016 · #1131
Origin
Arabic

1880 to 2024

Uncommon
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 163 boys were named Ismail, about 1 in every 10,523.
  • It peaked in 2016 with 171 babies, ranked #1131.
  • It first shows up in the records in 1962.
  • 3,818 boys have been named Ismail since 1880.

Who else has this name

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

  1. 0
    Greatest
  2. 0
    Silent
  3. <0.1
    Boomers
  4. <0.1
    Gen X
  5. <0.1
    Millennials
  6. <0.1
    Gen Z
  7. <0.1
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 0 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Boomers: 12 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 168 babies, 0.01 per 1,000. Millennials: 563 babies, 0.02 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,387 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,688 babies, 0.08 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl). Doublet of Ishmael.

  • A male given name from Arabic.
  • A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Исмаил (Ismail).
Origin
Arabic
Say it
Not recorded

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

Other spellings

  • GirlBoyRising

    Ismael

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

    Ishmael

    Rank
    #1,502
    Born '24
    119
    Origin
    Hebrew
    1880peak 20172024