Esmail
surname · Latin script
Meaning, in English: A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic]
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/zmeɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Esmail is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Egypt than in any other country.
- EGEgypt≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- SYSyria≈1 in 7.6K
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 25K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Egypt (inferred from the name graph)
- 3 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 176 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈31,000 people, est.
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Egypt, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
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)
A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
How Esmail is read(measured from records)
Esmail is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.
- Arabic58%
Ishmael + title of respect
as a nameAfrican Muslim Names
- English20%
A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic].
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Esmail 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| EG Egypt | #208 | ≈31,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Esmail | 92 |
| BD Bangladesh | — | ≈6,200 est. | ≈1 in 26K | — | Esmail | 13 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈4,400 est. | ≈1 in 25K | — | Esmail | 31 |
| SY Syria | #432 | ≈2,500 est. | ≈1 in 7.6K | — | Esmail | 17 |
| SA Saudi Arabia | — | ≈2,200 est. | ≈1 in 16K | — | Esmail | 50 |
| YE Yemen | — | ≈2,000 est. | ≈1 in 15K | — | Esmail | 30 |
| US United States | — | 623 | 1 in 534K | 805 | Esmail | 176 |
| KW Kuwait | #724 | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 12K | — | Esmail | 33 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020. 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Esmail is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In frm, enamel (glossy glaze)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In mdh, Ishmael
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Nabil Esmailb. 1942EGEgyptian engineer
- Sam Esmailb. 1977USEgyptian-American director and writer
- Feras Esmaeelb. 1983SYnot in their usual nameSyrian footballer
- Reena Esmailb. 1983USAmerican composer
- Alex Esmailb. 1993GBactor
- Samantha Esmailb. 2021USdaughter of Emmy Rossum and Sam Esmail
- Alida EsmailCAresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 43 sources across 23 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 805 | #30,920 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 623 | #35,993 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 467 | #43,546 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Esmail mean, and where does it come from?
- A surname from Arabic [in turn originating as a patronymic]. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Esmail?
- A machine transcription gives /zmeɪɫ/ (IPA) for Arabic.
- What are other forms of the name Esmail?
- In the etymology graph, Samuli, Isma'Il and Samuhel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Esmail have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 31 thousand people named Esmail in Egypt, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled esmail.
- How common is the name Esmail?
- In the United States, the national register counted 623 people named Esmail in 2010, about 1 in 534 thousand residents.
- How common is Esmail compared with other names?
- In Egypt, Esmail is the 208th most common surname of 306,210 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Esmail?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/esmailThe 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, “Esmail” — the 208th most common surname in Egypt. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.