Ismail — #1228 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Ismail

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,818 babies named Ismail between 1962 and 2024, spanning 63 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Ismail currently holds the #1228 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2016, when 171 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Ismail performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,349 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Ismail shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 558 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Ismail in 18 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Ismail in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,818 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.