Ismáel

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Ismáel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Türkiye than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Ismael, ultimately from Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él/yišmāʿēl).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 879(measured from records)
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.6K
  • TRTürkiye1 in 189as Ismail

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Ismáel itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Türkiye (measured from records)

434,992 named Ismail, 2025

#181 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
399 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 879 (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

IsmailLatin(measured from records)
ИсмаилCyrillic(measured from records)
ΙσμαηλGreek(measured from records)
ისმაილGeorgian(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Ismail in TR Türkiye, ID Indonesia, NG Nigeria and 1 more, Ismael in BR Brazil, ES Spain and Исмоил in TJ Tajikistan.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Derivation of Ismáel: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Ismáel
  1. SpanishIsmael(measured from records)
  2. Hebrewיִשְׁמָעֵאלyishma'él/yišmāʿēl(measured from records)

From Spanish Ismael, ultimately from Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él/yišmāʿēl).

Sources 5

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Ismáel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Ismáel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
TR Türkiye#13434,992as Ismail1 in 189435KIsmail174
NG Nigeria#89≈240,000 est.≈1 in 874—Ismail97
MA Morocco#39≈89,000 est.≈1 in 399—Ismail139
BR Brazil#32681,8541 in 2.6K82KIsmael164
ID Indonesia#105≈79,000 est.≈1 in 3.4K90KIsmail194
ES Spain#11956,8691 in 87957KIsmael200
TJ Tajikistan#21≈12,000 est.≈1 in 726listedИсмоил16

434,992 people counted by TÜİK NIP — most used given names, 2025. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: TÜİK NIP — most used given names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Dukcapil — e-KTP all-time given names. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Evidence(measured from records)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Ismáel under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Ismáel mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Ismael, ultimately from Hebrew יִשְׁמָעֵאל (yishma'él/yišmāʿēl). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Ismáel a male or female name?
Ismáel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Ismáel have the most bearers?
In Türkiye, the national register counted about 435 thousand people named Ismail, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Ismáel most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Ismáel is densest in Spain — about 1 in 879 people — even though Türkiye holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Ismáel?
In Brazil, the national register counted 81,854 people named Ismáel in 2022, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
How common is Ismáel compared with other names?
In Türkiye, Ismáel is the 13th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ismáel” — the 13th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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