Izmael is a rare spelling. It is summarised with Ismael, which shares its sound and spelling pattern.
Meaning not yet researched.
Izmael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 27 in 2025. Its best rank was #3,835 in 2024.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #3,835 in 2024; #3,983 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Izmael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,983 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2024, at #3,835.
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Izmael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 27 boys in 2025. Peak: #3,835 in 2024 · most boys in one year: 29 (2024).
In 2025, 27 US boys were named Izmael, making it the 3,983rd most common boys’ name of the year, down 148 places from #3,835 in 2024. That is 2 fewer than the 29 boys named Izmael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #3,835, reached in 2024. That year also had the most boys given the name: 29. For comparison, it was #4,612 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Izmael in 22 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 2001 with 5 babies. In all, 334 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 2020s, with 152 babies named Izmael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 206 US boys were named Izmael; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 29. In 2025 that was about 1 in 63,262 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Ismael (44,289 babies since 1880) and Ismail (4,022 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 Izmael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 27 | #3,983 |
| 2024 | — | — | 29 | #3,835 |
| 2023 | — | — | 29 | #3,835 |
| 2022 | — | — | 20 | #4,916 |
| 2021 | — | — | 22 | #4,543 |
| 2020 | — | — | 25 | #4,064 |
| 2019 | — | — | 15 | #5,932 |
| 2018 | — | — | 18 | #5,177 |
| 2017 | — | — | 9 | #8,415 |
| 2016 | — | — | 12 | #6,891 |
| 2015 | — | — | 21 | #4,612 |
| 2014 | — | — | 12 | #6,806 |
| 2013 | — | — | 10 | #7,742 |
| 2012 | — | — | 10 | #7,768 |
| 2011 | — | — | 10 | #7,709 |
| 2010 | — | — | 14 | #6,163 |
| 2009 | — | — | 10 | #7,931 |
| 2008 | — | — | 9 | #8,561 |
| 2007 | — | — | 13 | #6,403 |
| 2006 | — | — | 6 | #11,194 |
| 2005 | — | — | 8 | #8,600 |
| 2001 | — | — | 5 | #11,251 |
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).