Ismail
Where Ismail comes from
From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل (ʔismāʕīl). Doublet of Ishmael.
- Arabic
Ismail through the years
- 1962First appearance#4,033 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
- 2025Peak, #1,064204 babies named Ismail, the most in any year.
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.