boys:
3.7k births since 1962
#2052 (55th percentile)
overall:
3.7k births since 1962
#4532 (41st percentile)
The name Ismail is the #4,532 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,655 recorded births since 1962. This represents the 41.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,052 (55.2% percentile) for all time with 3,655 births since 1962.
Ismail first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1962 (first recorded for boys in 1962). Birth data for Ismail is available in 56 out of the 62 years between 1962 and 2023. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For boys, Ismail reached its peak popularity in 2016, achieving the 18.0% percentile (ranked #755) with 84 births per million. The name was most common in 2016, with 84 births per million (ranked 18.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Ismail ranks #784 for boys (14.0% percentile) with 72 births per million, which is 85.4% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Ismail".
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Our model has identified 23 different pronunciations for the name Ismail. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.0% confident that Ismail is pronounced as IH-smayl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is ih-SMAIL, at 13.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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