Ismaeel
Ismaeel was given to 29 boys in 2025, #3,797 among boys’ names; 468 Americans have been recorded with it since 1995 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Ismaeel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Ismaeel?
#3,797 among boys’ names, 2025
Ismaeel rose from #4,339 in 2015 to #3,797 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 12.0 to 17.0 per million.
34 babies in 2023, the peak
Ismaeel peaked in 2023, when 34 boys were given it, #3,446 among boys’ names. The 29 births of 2025 are 85% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 29 | #3,797 | 17.0 |
| 2024 | 20 | #4,946 | 11.6 |
| 2023 | 34 | #3,446 | 19.9 |
| 2022 | 26 | #4,130 | 14.9 |
| 2021 | 28 | #3,849 | 16.0 |
| 2020 | 23 | #4,322 | 13.3 |
| 2019 | 22 | #4,532 | 12.3 |
| 2018 | 20 | #4,814 | 11.0 |
| 2017 | 23 | #4,371 | 12.4 |
| 2016 | 23 | #4,384 | 12.1 |
Every recorded year (28)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 23 | #4,339 | 12.0 |
| 2014 | 21 | #4,600 | 10.9 |
| 2013 | 14 | #6,032 | 7.4 |
| 2012 | 13 | #6,439 | 6.9 |
| 2011 | 18 | #5,063 | 9.5 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,580 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 15 | #5,918 | 7.6 |
| 2008 | 15 | #5,881 | 7.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,032 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,639 | 4.9 |
| 2003 | 7 | #9,032 | 3.5 |
| 2002 | 8 | #7,930 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 7 | #8,542 | 3.6 |
| 1999 | 5 | #10,543 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 8 | #7,101 | 4.2 |
| 1997 | 6 | #8,571 | 3.2 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,706 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,402 | 2.6 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Ismaeel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Ismaeel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 28 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Ismaeel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Ismaeel, and how old are they?
An estimated 463 Americans named Ismaeel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 10 years old and half are between 5 and 16. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 316 people named Ismaeel (0 women and girls, 316 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 311 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 4 names spelled alike, given to 48,864 babies since 1880, Ismaeel is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 29 of their 1,540 babies (1.9%), again the third most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Ismaeel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Ismaeel and names like it
- Compare Ismaeel and IsmaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sIsmaeel peaked in 2023.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Ismaeel since 1910.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Ismaeel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Ismaeel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with IMost given first.