Ysmael

#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births

Peak · boys
1931 · 11 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
202
since 1918

Ysmael over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ysmael has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201928peak #2,328, 1931boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#10,6956
2024#12,3495
2023#7,28911
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2021#10,7996
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2013#10,7286
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1931#2,32811
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1929#3,5596
1928#2,65910
1927#4,2105
1926#3,1398
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1924#3,8676
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Ysmael! It came in at #3,728, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1923, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

Where Ysmael is popular in 1928

No state had 5 or more boys named Ysmael in 1928, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.

See more about Ysmael
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #10,695)
  • 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 1931 at #2,328 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1932, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 94,515
  • Highest: 1 in 94,515 boys born in 1931 were named Ysmael (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 20.3% of all boys named Ysmael (41) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s6#3,728 (1918)#3,728
1920s41#2,659 (1928)#3,529
1930s34#2,328 (1931)#2,823
1940s26#2,403 (1946)#3,103
1950s5#3,942 (1956)#3,942
1960s0——
1970s0——
1980s6#6,426 (1988)#6,426
1990s16#7,638 (1993)#8,296
2000s16#10,894 (2003)#11,134
2010s24#9,600 (2011)#10,782
2020s28#7,289 (2023)#10,283

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ysmael in 1928

boys
#2,659
10 births · 1 in 110,761 boys

Top boys' names in 1928

  1. #1Robert60,701
  2. #2John53,760
  3. #3James52,752
  4. #4William49,118
  5. #5Charles31,243
  6. #6Richard28,793
  7. #7Donald25,704
  8. #8George24,391
  9. #9Joseph22,322
  10. #10Edward18,492
  11. #2,659Ysmael10
More about 1928

boys

1,107,613 boys got a published name in 1928; 1 in 110,761 of them was named Ysmael, which outranked 43.7% of the 4,723 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.2% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ysmael
  1. #2,522Ysabel11
  2. #2,522Yutaka11
  3. #2,522Zenon11
  4. #2,659Ysmael10
  5. #2,659Ada10
  6. #2,659Adger10
  7. #2,659Alban10
  8. #2,843Abie9
  9. #2,843Adams9
  10. #2,843Aime9

Tied with 183 names at #2,659; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1927
Risers
  1. ↑ 1,009Fidencio#1,959 → #950
  2. ↑ 766Hoover#1,128 → #362
  3. ↑ 700Reyes#1,692 → #992
  4. ↑ 441Arlen#1,227 → #786
  5. ↑ 392Arland#1,372 → #980
Fallers
  1. ↓ 2,975Shoji#722 → #3,697
  2. ↓ 529Alvan#951 → #1,480
  3. ↓ 418Watson#964 → #1,382
  4. ↓ 412Judge#911 → #1,323
  5. ↓ 363Donato#990 → #1,353

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1928 →