Ismail

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Ismail: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Ismail: Recorded since 1949, it reached #218 in 2007, and it stood at #252 in 2025.

4registrars recorded it
107times a registrar ranked it
77years from first to last
#218highest recorded position
17groupings it qualifies for

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

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England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#325
1997	#375
1998	#285
1999	#297
2000	#282
2001	#233
2002	#237
2003	#252
2004	#219
2005	#227
2006	#237
2007	#242
2008	#225
2009	#233
2010	#239
2011	#241
2012	#251
2013	#265
2014	#253
2015	#258
2016	#275
2017	#275
2018	#254
2019	#258
2020	#292
2021	#316
2022	#266
2023	#290
2024	#286

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 68 of the 77 years from 1949 to 2025.

In 2025: #252 among boys in Norway, #577 among boys in Republic of Ireland.

Official data from 4 national registrars across 4 regions, 1949–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1949
First recorded at #305 among boys in Norway in 1949 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1949–2025
Highest recorded position: #218 among boys in Norway, in 2007 (recorded 1949–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #252 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Ismail appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 68 years beginning in 1949, and has registered 857 births with the name.

Ismail across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Ismail's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#305 (1949)	#218 (2007)	#252 (2025)	68 of 77	857 (1949–2025)	23 (2007)
England and Wales · Boys	#325 (1996)	#219 (2004)	#286 (2024)	29 of 29	4,578 (1996–2024)	205 (2008)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#518 (2005)	#472 (2024)	#577 (2025)	9 of 21	39 (2005–2025)	7 (2024)

Ismail by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Ismail in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	7	1 of 10	7
1950s	9	2 of 10	5
1960s	67	9 of 10	7
1970s	92	10 of 10	9
1980s	142	10 of 10	14
1990s	133	10 of 10	13
2000s	145	10 of 10	15
2010sbusiest	180	10 of 10	18
2020s	82	6 of 10	14

Across Norway · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 18 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Ismail appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1949 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #218 in Norway in 2007.

Ismail's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#286	157	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#290	155	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#266	176	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#316	148	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#292	157	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#258	191	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#254	200	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#275	189	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#275	185	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#258	198	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#253	204	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#265	181	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#251	196	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#241	198	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#239	195	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#233	195	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#225	205	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#242	172	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#237	160	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#227	156	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#219	167	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#252	125	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#237	125	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#233	127	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#282	97	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#297	92	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#285	91	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#375	61	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#325	75	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#252	16	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#263	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#262	16	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#302	12	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#342	9	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#271	13	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#227	21	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#242	20	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#364	10	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#252	19	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#307	14	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#310	14	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#225	23	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#225	22	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#264	18	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#251	19	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#269	18	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#320	13	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#218	23	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#375	9	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#278	14	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#269	15	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#330	11	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#279	14	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#281	14	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#296	14	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#268	16	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#272	16	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#328	12	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#300	14	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#254	18	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#420	8	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#272	19	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#349	12	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#532	6	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#374	12	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#387	11	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#372	12	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#297	16	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#369	12	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#420	10	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#259	20	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#252	21	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#313	15	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#376	11	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#322	14	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#465	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#417	9	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#293	15	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#424	9	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#429	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#408	10	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#504	6	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#415	9	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#389	10	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#458	7	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#470	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#461	6	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#393	8	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#361	10	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#448	6	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#420	7	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#506	4	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#324	10	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#303	10	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#432	5	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#462	4	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#305	7	High	Verified
2025	Republic of Ireland	male	#577	5	High	Verified
2024	Republic of Ireland	male	#472	7	High	Verified
2021	Republic of Ireland	male	#755	3	High	Verified
2017	Republic of Ireland	male	#495	6	High	Verified
2016	Republic of Ireland	male	#601	4	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#616	4	High	Verified
2011	Republic of Ireland	male	#623	4	High	Verified
2006	Republic of Ireland	male	#596	3	High	Verified
2005	Republic of Ireland	male	#518	3	High	Verified
2024	Scotland	male	#404	8	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland
Scotland hub — collected by National Records of Scotland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 4 registrars between 1949 and 2025, ranked in 68 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #218, first reached in 2007.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 205 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 8 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 75 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Ismay · #2096, 25y
Isobel · #50, 60y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 4 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Daniela · #207, 64y
Lilian · #194, 68y
Steve · #242, 70y
Hasan · #191, 73y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Hallstein · #218, 28y
Jofrid · #218, 29y
Asta · #217, 65y
Else-Marie · #217, 17y

Ismail was ranked #218 in Norway · Boys in 2007. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Ismail and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Ismail without appearing here.

Ismail moved ahead of

Stein Compare
In 2006 they stood at #375 and #343 in Norway · Boys; by 2007 that had become #218 and #531.
Roman Compare
In 1994 they stood at #420 and #405 in Norway · Boys; by 1995 that had become #254 and #509.
Arild Compare
In 2006 they stood at #375 and #367 in Norway · Boys; by 2007 that had become #218 and #470.
Connor Compare
In 2024 they stood at #472 and #302 in Republic of Ireland · Boys; by 2025 that had become #577 and #829.

Moved ahead of Ismail

Mats Compare
In 1957 they stood at #305 and #330 in Norway · Boys; by 1958 that had become #462 and #254.
Muhammad Compare
In 1977 they stood at #293 and #314 in Norway · Boys; by 1978 that had become #417 and #216.
Theodor Compare
In 1993 they stood at #272 and #350 in Norway · Boys; by 1994 that had become #420 and #229.
Filip Compare
In 1984 they stood at #259 and #283 in Norway · Boys; by 1985 that had become #420 and #243.

Moved the opposite way to Ismail

Roman Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #252 while Roman went from #301 to #438.
Steffen Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #252 while Steffen went from #367 to #519.
Kim Compare
Between 1958 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #262 while Kim went from #167 to #370.
Tony Compare
Between 1958 and 2020 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #271 while Tony went from #216 to #438.

Moved the same way as Ismail

Adam Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #252 and Adam from #284 to #29.
Adrian Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #252 and Adrian from #449 to #70.
Alexander Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #252 and Alexander from #304 to #81.
Elias Compare
Between 1958 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Ismail went from #462 to #252 and Elias from #412 to #4.

What's not yet available

Meaning
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Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 4 regions, from 1949 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #218 in Norway in 2007. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Ismail

Ismail at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Ismail across 3 official records

Ismail by decade in Norway · Boys

Ismail appears in

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Ismail across 3 official records

Ismail by decade in Norway · Boys

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