Ysmael

#10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births

Peak · boys
1931 · 11 births
Debut · boys
6 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
202
since 1918

Ysmael over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Ysmael has never cracked the top 2,000 here.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201918peak #2,328, 1931boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

Show data table
Yearboys
rankbirths
2025#10,6956
2024#12,3495
2023#7,28911
2022
2021#10,7996
2020
2019
2018#12,1565
2017
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2015#10,6446
2014
2013#10,7286
2012
2011#9,6007
2010
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2008#11,0376
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2005#11,4725
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2003#10,8945
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1996#9,0155
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1993#7,6386
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1991#8,2365
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1956#3,9425
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1946#2,40310
1945#3,3385
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1943#3,5385
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1935#3,2526
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1933#3,2686
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1931#2,32811
1930#2,44411
1929#3,5596
1928#2,65910
1927#4,2105
1926#3,1398
1925#3,7416
1924#3,8676
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First appearance
1918

The first year at least five boys were named Ysmael! It came in at #3,728, and was given to 6 baby boys.


Quietest stretch: 1919–1923, when fewer than 5 boys a year got the name.

See more about Ysmael
Momentum · boys
Brand new
  • 1,654 spots since 2024 (#12,349#10,695)
  • 51 spots since 2015 (#10,644#10,695)
Rise & fade · boys
13 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1918
  • Peaked 1931 at #2,328 (11 births)
  • Births halved by 1932, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 94,515
  • Highest: 1 in 94,515 boys born in 1931 were named Ysmael (0.00%)
  • Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
Era · boys
The 1920s
  • 20.3% of all boys named Ysmael (41) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1910s6#3,728 (1918)#3,728
1920s41#2,659 (1928)#3,529
1930s34#2,328 (1931)#2,823
1940s26#2,403 (1946)#3,103
1950s5#3,942 (1956)#3,942
1960s0
1970s0
1980s6#6,426 (1988)#6,426
1990s16#7,638 (1993)#8,296
2000s16#10,894 (2003)#11,134
2010s24#9,600 (2011)#10,782
2020s28#7,289 (2023)#10,283

All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.

Ysmael in 1918

boys
#3,728
6 births · 1 in 168,913 boys

Top boys' names in 1918

  1. #1John56,558
  2. #2William45,291
  3. #3James42,115
  4. #4Robert40,619
  5. #5Charles26,921
  6. #6George26,318
  7. #7Joseph26,261
  8. #8Edward19,489
  9. #9Frank17,018
  10. #10Thomas13,910
  11. #3,728Ysmael6
More about 1918

boys

1,013,480 boys got a published name in 1918; 1 in 168,913 of them was named Ysmael, which outranked 22.5% of the 4,813 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 31.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Ysmael
  1. #3,368Yaro7
  2. #3,368Yoshiyuki7
  3. #3,368Zed7
  4. #3,728Ysmael6
  5. #3,728Ab6
  6. #3,728Abran6
  7. #3,728Acencion6
  8. #4,179Abdon5
  9. #4,179Abelino5
  10. #4,179Abert5

Tied with 450 names at #3,728; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1917
Risers
  1. 600Quinton#1,092#492
  2. 542Pershing#876#334
  3. 480Quentin#723#243
  4. 440Issac#1,264#824
  5. 339Furman#1,092#753
Fallers
  1. 473Bernhard#900#1,373
  2. 424Edson#919#1,343
  3. 394Gasper#919#1,313
  4. 352Berton#934#1,286
  5. 346Ishmael#997#1,343

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1918