Meaning not yet researched.
Ismael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 1,307 in 2025. Its best rank was #234 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #234 in 2024; #263 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Ismael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#263 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #234.
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Ismael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 1,307 boys in 2025. Peak: #234 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 1,535 (2024).
In 2025, 1,307 US boys were named Ismael, making it the 263rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 29 places from #234 in 2024. That is 228 fewer than the 1,535 boys named Ismael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #234, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 1,535. For comparison, it was #401 in 2015 and #598 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ismael in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1903 with 5 babies. In all, 44,289 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 8,932 babies named Ismael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 10,576 US boys were named Ismael; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 1,535. In 2025 that was about 1 in 1,307 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ismael ranked highest in New Mexico in 2025, at #93 for boys there. It was in the top 100 in 1 state (counting DC). Related spellings in the SSA files include Ishmael (6,794 babies since 1880) and Ismail (4,022 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Ismaeel, Izmael and Ysmael are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Ismaeel (468), Izmael (334), Ysmael (202), Esmael (94), Ismeal (85), Esmail (19), Ezmael (17), Ismoil (12), Ismel (11), Ismaaeel (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Ismael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 14 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Mexico | 20 | #93 | #295 |
| Arizona | 73 | #115 | #228 |
| California | 329 | #120 | #221 |
| Texas | 267 | #145 | #263 |
| Oregon | 26 | #161 | #513 |
| Nevada | 17 | #176 | — |
| Illinois | 61 | #194 | #458 |
| Colorado | 30 | #218 | #387 |
| Kansas | 16 | #240 | #538 |
| Washington | 29 | #263 | #402 |
| Nebraska | 9 | #276 | #471 |
| New Jersey | 28 | #307 | #350 |
| Idaho | 8 | #313 | — |
| Oklahoma | 15 | #317 | #462 |
| Indiana | 23 | #329 | #690 |
| New York | 52 | #340 | #401 |
| Florida | 52 | #375 | #501 |
| North Carolina | 30 | #376 | #636 |
| Wisconsin | 14 | #379 | — |
| Arkansas | 8 | #410 | #509 |
| Massachusetts | 12 | #420 | #423 |
| Utah | 11 | #421 | #432 |
| Minnesota | 13 | #434 | #602 |
| South Carolina | 11 | #452 | — |
| Kentucky | 10 | #465 | — |
| Michigan | 16 | #524 | #732 |
| Maryland | 9 | #534 | #832 |
| Pennsylvania | 17 | #560 | #675 |
| Mississippi | 5 | #563 | — |
| Georgia | 18 | #574 | #717 |
| Alabama | 8 | #597 | — |
| Iowa | 5 | #615 | — |
| Ohio | 15 | #635 | #706 |
| Tennessee | 11 | #653 | #967 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #708 | — |
| Missouri | 7 | #747 | — |
| Virginia | 9 | #761 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 1,307 | #263 |
| 2024 | — | — | 1,535 | #234 |
| 2023 | — | — | 1,425 | #244 |
| 2022 | — | — | 1,076 | #312 |
| 2021 | — | — | 928 | #350 |
| 2020 | — | — | 905 | #350 |
| 2019 | — | — | 875 | #365 |
| 2018 | — | — | 919 | #359 |
| 2017 | — | — | 814 | #392 |
| 2016 | — | — | 792 | #404 |
| 2015 | — | — | 772 | #401 |
| 2014 | — | — | 807 | #386 |
| 2013 | — | — | 746 | #401 |
| 2012 | — | — | 776 | #383 |
| 2011 | — | — | 789 | #376 |
| 2010 | — | — | 824 | #362 |
| 2009 | — | — | 863 | #357 |
| 2008 | — | — | 935 | #348 |
| 2007 | — | — | 978 | #327 |
| 2006 | — | — | 988 | #324 |
| 2005 | 5 | #17,478 | 898 | #335 |
| 2004 | 6 | #14,853 | 905 | #332 |
| 2003 | — | — | 871 | #332 |
| 2002 | — | — | 809 | #338 |
| 2001 | — | — | 866 | #325 |
| 2000 | 5 | #15,975 | 803 | #341 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,294 | 785 | #338 |
| 1998 | — | — | 744 | #351 |
| 1997 | — | — | 658 | #371 |
| 1996 | 7 | #11,008 | 772 | #335 |
| 1995 | — | — | 716 | #342 |
| 1994 | 8 | #9,904 | 642 | #371 |
| 1993 | 6 | #12,364 | 637 | #372 |
| 1992 | — | — | 600 | #382 |
| 1991 | — | — | 615 | #373 |
| 1990 | — | — | 557 | #414 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,356 | 456 | #443 |
| 1988 | — | — | 475 | #414 |
| 1987 | — | — | 434 | #420 |
| 1986 | — | — | 445 | #405 |
| 1985 | — | — | 415 | #420 |
| 1984 | — | — | 380 | #427 |
| 1983 | 7 | #8,350 | 424 | #393 |
| 1982 | 6 | #9,643 | 435 | #389 |
| 1981 | — | — | 406 | #405 |
| 1980 | — | — | 386 | #421 |
| 1979 | — | — | 419 | #391 |
| 1978 | 6 | #8,937 | 338 | #433 |
| 1977 | — | — | 326 | #439 |
| 1976 | 5 | #9,836 | 349 | #413 |
| 1975 | — | — | 306 | #461 |
| 1974 | — | — | 365 | #410 |
| 1973 | — | — | 279 | #470 |
| 1972 | — | — | 280 | #470 |
| 1971 | — | — | 289 | #477 |
| 1970 | — | — | 301 | #468 |
| 1969 | — | — | 247 | #490 |
| 1968 | — | — | 255 | #476 |
| 1967 | — | — | 220 | #506 |
| 1966 | — | — | 233 | #497 |
| 1965 | — | — | 200 | #540 |
| 1964 | — | — | 218 | #532 |
| 1963 | — | — | 213 | #542 |
| 1962 | — | — | 233 | #519 |
| 1961 | — | — | 181 | #589 |
| 1960 | — | — | 208 | #545 |
| 1959 | — | — | 195 | #555 |
| 1958 | — | — | 191 | #560 |
| 1957 | — | — | 196 | #553 |
| 1956 | — | — | 202 | #526 |
| 1955 | — | — | 160 | #581 |
| 1954 | — | — | 161 | #585 |
| 1953 | — | — | 165 | #550 |
| 1952 | — | — | 145 | #578 |
| 1951 | — | — | 138 | #593 |
| 1950 | — | — | 131 | #598 |
| 1949 | — | — | 129 | #601 |
| 1948 | — | — | 116 | #631 |
| 1947 | — | — | 104 | #680 |
| 1946 | — | — | 96 | #661 |
| 1945 | — | — | 79 | #681 |
| 1944 | — | — | 79 | #698 |
| 1943 | — | — | 50 | #947 |
| 1942 | — | — | 65 | #800 |
| 1941 | — | — | 59 | #828 |
| 1940 | — | — | 40 | #1,025 |
| 1939 | — | — | 55 | #824 |
| 1938 | — | — | 58 | #814 |
| 1937 | — | — | 49 | #887 |
| 1936 | — | — | 39 | #1,022 |
| 1935 | — | — | 52 | #877 |
| 1934 | — | — | 40 | #1,032 |
| 1933 | — | — | 68 | #741 |
| 1932 | — | — | 57 | #846 |
| 1931 | — | — | 76 | #693 |
| 1930 | — | — | 75 | #732 |
| 1929 | — | — | 58 | #872 |
| 1928 | — | — | 51 | #958 |
| 1927 | — | — | 43 | #1,090 |
| 1926 | — | — | 43 | #1,076 |
| 1925 | — | — | 41 | #1,098 |
| 1924 | — | — | 28 | #1,435 |
| 1923 | — | — | 37 | #1,186 |
| 1922 | — | — | 27 | #1,453 |
| 1921 | — | — | 28 | #1,432 |
| 1920 | — | — | 23 | #1,615 |
| 1919 | — | — | 20 | #1,726 |
| 1918 | — | — | 13 | #2,327 |
| 1917 | — | — | 20 | #1,670 |
| 1916 | — | — | 10 | #2,631 |
| 1915 | — | — | 6 | #3,614 |
| 1914 | — | — | 15 | #1,646 |
| 1913 | — | — | 15 | #1,407 |
| 1912 | — | — | 8 | #1,961 |
| 1911 | — | — | 7 | #1,466 |
| 1903 | — | — | 5 | #1,208 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).