Îsmail
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Îsmail 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: Ultimately from Hebrew ישמעאל (yishma'él).
- TRTürkiye1 in 189(measured from records)
- MAMorocco≈1 in 399
- NGNigeria≈1 in 874
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 Îsmail 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)
- #181 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 399 (measured from records)
- 1 in 189 (inferred from the name graph)
434,992 people, 2025
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Türkiye
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
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)
Ultimately from Hebrew ישמעאל (yishma'él).
Sources 8
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Dictionar Onomastic Rominesc
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Îsmail 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| TR Türkiye | #13 | 434,992 | 1 in 189 | 435K | Ismail | 174 |
| NG Nigeria | #89 | ≈240,000 est. | ≈1 in 874 | — | Ismail | 97 |
| MA Morocco | #39 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 399 | — | Ismail | 139 |
| BR Brazil | #326 | 81,854as Ismael | 1 in 2.6K | 82K | Ismael | 164 |
| ID Indonesia | #105 | ≈79,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | 90K | Ismail | 194 |
| ES Spain | #119 | 56,869as Ismael | 1 in 879 | 57K | Ismael | 200 |
| TJ Tajikistan | #21 | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 726 | listed | Исмоил | 16 |
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
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Îsmail mean, and where does it come from?
- Ultimately from Hebrew ישמעאל (yishma'él). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 6 other sources.
- Is Îsmail a male or female name?
- Îsmail 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 Îsmail have the most bearers?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted about 435 thousand people named Îsmail, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled ismail.
- Where is Îsmail most common?
- Îsmail is densest in Türkiye, where the national register counts about 1 in 189 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Îsmail?
- In Türkiye, the national register counted 434,992 people named Îsmail in 2025, about 1 in 189 residents.
- How common is Îsmail compared with other names?
- In Türkiye, Îsmail is the 13th most common given name of 264,080 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/%C3%AEsmailThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Îsmail” — the 13th most common given name in Türkiye. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.