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Ismail: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 204 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,065 in 2025.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Its highest rank in 146 years of records is this year’s. Every baby recorded as Ismail in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,065 for US boys in 2025, its highest rank in 146 years of records.
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Ismail: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 204 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,065 in 2025 · most boys in one year: 204 (2025).
In 2025, 204 US boys were named Ismail, making it the 1,065th most common boys’ name of the year, up 167 places from #1,232 in 2024. That is 41 more than the 163 boys named Ismail in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,065, reached in this year, 2025. That year also had the most boys given the name: 204. For comparison, it was #1,177 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Ismail in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1962 with 5 babies. In all, 4,022 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,349 babies named Ismail.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,463 US boys were named Ismail; the busiest of those years was 2025, with 204. In 2025 that was about 1 in 8,373 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Ismail ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #475 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Ismael (44,289 babies since 1880) and Ishmael (6,794 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Ismail 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 16 | #475 | — |
| New York | 33 | #496 | #615 |
| Minnesota | 9 | #561 | #345 |
| Maryland | 8 | #601 | #833 |
| Virginia | 11 | #644 | #1,051 |
| California | 34 | #762 | #1,283 |
| Michigan | 9 | #797 | #915 |
| Illinois | 10 | #828 | — |
| Texas | 21 | #1,080 | #1,692 |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,148 | #1,229 |
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,355 | — |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 204 | #1,065 |
| 2024 | — | — | 163 | #1,232 |
| 2023 | — | — | 132 | #1,398 |
| 2022 | — | — | 122 | #1,485 |
| 2021 | — | — | 121 | #1,485 |
| 2020 | — | — | 130 | #1,363 |
| 2019 | — | — | 114 | #1,501 |
| 2018 | — | — | 158 | #1,196 |
| 2017 | — | — | 148 | #1,240 |
| 2016 | — | — | 171 | #1,131 |
| 2015 | — | — | 158 | #1,177 |
| 2014 | — | — | 136 | #1,301 |
| 2013 | — | — | 135 | #1,289 |
| 2012 | — | — | 116 | #1,435 |
| 2011 | — | — | 119 | #1,398 |
| 2010 | — | — | 94 | #1,661 |
| 2009 | — | — | 104 | #1,566 |
| 2008 | — | — | 85 | #1,767 |
| 2007 | — | — | 101 | #1,557 |
| 2006 | — | — | 103 | #1,481 |
| 2005 | — | — | 69 | #1,861 |
| 2004 | — | — | 80 | #1,620 |
| 2003 | — | — | 85 | #1,520 |
| 2002 | — | — | 85 | #1,489 |
| 2001 | — | — | 80 | #1,517 |
| 2000 | — | — | 68 | #1,690 |
| 1999 | — | — | 65 | #1,645 |
| 1998 | — | — | 69 | #1,550 |
| 1997 | — | — | 64 | #1,586 |
| 1996 | — | — | 53 | #1,751 |
| 1995 | — | — | 52 | #1,717 |
| 1994 | — | — | 51 | #1,740 |
| 1993 | — | — | 57 | #1,581 |
| 1992 | — | — | 35 | #2,191 |
| 1991 | — | — | 56 | #1,550 |
| 1990 | — | — | 42 | #1,853 |
| 1989 | — | — | 32 | #2,174 |
| 1988 | — | — | 28 | #2,216 |
| 1987 | — | — | 24 | #2,359 |
| 1986 | — | — | 18 | #2,828 |
| 1985 | — | — | 17 | #2,880 |
| 1984 | — | — | 20 | #2,472 |
| 1983 | — | — | 31 | #1,797 |
| 1982 | — | — | 25 | #2,138 |
| 1981 | — | — | 22 | #2,292 |
| 1980 | — | — | 30 | #1,882 |
| 1979 | — | — | 29 | #1,883 |
| 1978 | — | — | 24 | #2,033 |
| 1977 | — | — | 19 | #2,399 |
| 1976 | — | — | 16 | #2,648 |
| 1975 | — | — | 14 | #2,814 |
| 1974 | — | — | 7 | #4,351 |
| 1973 | — | — | 8 | #3,850 |
| 1972 | — | — | 9 | #3,461 |
| 1971 | — | — | 5 | #5,237 |
| 1970 | — | — | 7 | #4,014 |
| 1964 | — | — | 7 | #3,426 |
| 1962 | — | — | 5 | #4,311 |
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).