Ismail

Where Ismail comes from

From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl). Doublet of Ishmael.
— Wiktionary's entry for Ismail
  • Arabic
Along the way
  1. 1962
    First appearance
    #4,033 among boys, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 2025
    Peak, #1,064
    204 babies named Ismail — more than any year before or since.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Arabic.
  • A transliteration of the Macedonian or Russian male given name Исмаил (Ismail).
Namesakes

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Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.