Ysmael
#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
- Peak · boys
- 1931 · 11 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 202since 1918
Ysmael over time
Rank among boys' names. Ysmael has never cracked the top 2,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | boys | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #10,695 | 6 |
| 2024 | #12,349 | 5 |
| 2023 | #7,289 | 11 |
| 2022 | — | |
| 2021 | #10,799 | 6 |
| 2020 | — | |
| 2019 | — | |
| 2018 | #12,156 | 5 |
| 2017 | — | |
| 2016 | — | |
| 2015 | #10,644 | 6 |
| 2014 | — | |
| 2013 | #10,728 | 6 |
| 2012 | — | |
| 2011 | #9,600 | 7 |
| 2010 | — | |
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| 2008 | #11,037 | 6 |
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| 2005 | #11,472 | 5 |
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| 2003 | #10,894 | 5 |
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| 1996 | #9,015 | 5 |
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| 1993 | #7,638 | 6 |
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| 1991 | #8,236 | 5 |
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| 1988 | #6,426 | 6 |
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| 1956 | #3,942 | 5 |
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| 1946 | #2,403 | 10 |
| 1945 | #3,338 | 5 |
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| 1943 | #3,538 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #3,133 | 6 |
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| 1935 | #3,252 | 6 |
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| 1933 | #3,268 | 6 |
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| 1931 | #2,328 | 11 |
| 1930 | #2,444 | 11 |
| 1929 | #3,559 | 6 |
| 1928 | #2,659 | 10 |
| 1927 | #4,210 | 5 |
| 1926 | #3,139 | 8 |
| 1925 | #3,741 | 6 |
| 1924 | #3,867 | 6 |
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| 1918 | #3,728 | 6 |
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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 1931
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- California#436 · 1 in 6,062
- Texas#852 · 1 in 11,041
Best ever in a state: #436 in California, 1931.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| California | #436 | 6 | 1 in 6,062 |
| Texas | #852 | 5 | 1 in 11,041 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Ysmael
- 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #10,695)
- 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1918
- Peaked 1931 at #2,328 (11 births)
- Births halved by 1932, 1 yr later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- 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%)
- 20.3% of all boys named Ysmael (41) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 6 | #3,728 (1918) | #3,728 |
| 1920s | 41 | #2,659 (1928) | #3,529 |
| 1930s | 34 | #2,328 (1931) | #2,823 |
| 1940s | 26 | #2,403 (1946) | #3,103 |
| 1950s | 5 | #3,942 (1956) | #3,942 |
| 1960s | 0 | — | — |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 6 | #6,426 (1988) | #6,426 |
| 1990s | 16 | #7,638 (1993) | #8,296 |
| 2000s | 16 | #10,894 (2003) | #11,134 |
| 2010s | 24 | #9,600 (2011) | #10,782 |
| 2020s | 28 | #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 1931
Top boys' names in 1931
More about 1931
boys
1,039,665 boys got a published name in 1931; 1 in 94,515 of them was named Ysmael, which outranked 46.1% of the 4,321 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 33.8% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #2,207Wallie12
- #2,207Weaver12
- #2,207Williom12
- #2,328Ysmael11
- #2,328Adolphe11
- #2,328Agostino11
- #2,328Aime11
- #2,471Abbott10
- #2,471Alfons10
- #2,471Alpheus10
Tied with 142 names at #2,328; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.