Ismael

Popularity, 1880–2025

girls named Ismael boys named Ismael

By the numbers

Total US births

44,289

Estimated living today

41,000

Median age today

21

Peak year

2024

Best rank

234th

Rank in 2025

263rd

First recorded

1903

Girls / boys

73 / 44,216

How old the living Ismaels are

born that year still alive today

Of the 44,289 babies given the name since 1903, about 41,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 17,000 of them are children and 1,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2004 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Ismaels

• Ismael Saibari (born 2001)Moroccan footballer
• Ismaël Bennacer (born 1997)Algerian footballer
• Ismael Urzaiz (born 1971)Spanish association football player
• Ismael Díaz (born 1997)Panamanian footballer
• Ismaël Koné (born 2002)Canadian soccer player
• Ismaël Bullialdus (1605–1694)French astronomer
• Ismaël Traoré (born 1986)Ivorian footballer
• Ismaël Bangoura (born 1985)Guinean and French footballer

People named Ismael with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Ismael is most common

• CA12,683
• TX10,511
• NY3,684
• IL2,026
• AZ1,748
• FL1,594
• NJ1,136
• WA730
• NM616
• CO607

Relative to how many babies each state records, Ismael is most concentrated in Arizona (3.4×), Texas (3.3×), California (3.0×), New Mexico (2.7×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2024

The most popular boys’ names the year Ismael peaked:

• Liam
• Noah
• Oliver
• Theodore
• James
• Henry

All the names of 2024

Ismael elsewhere

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Ismael: births by region

Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.

By canton, Ismael is most concentrated in Neuchâtel, where 0.09% of children were given it – 32 of them.

Ismael: rank by region

In 2025, Ismael was given 5 times or more in 6 regions of Belgium.

In 2016, Ismael was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.

In 2021, Ismael was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.

In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Ismael appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (Ismaël, 48th), Brussels-Capital Region (Ismael, 104th), Province of Liège (Ismaël, 147th), Province of Flemish Brabant (Ismaël, 177th) and Province of Hainaut (Ismael, 215th).

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Ismael by city

One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.

Ismael among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Where Ismael lives in Spain

Not a count of births but of people: 56,869 men called Ismael were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.

Men: the provinces where it is densest

Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.

Related names

• Ismail

Ismael against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

• Ismael vs Ismail

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