Ishmael
Recorded for boysMillennial2025 rank
#1,469
up +19 places
2025 births
121
unchanged births
All-time births
6,794
2% of them in 2025
More common than
97%
of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
- Peak year
- 2017
- 158 births
- Best rank
- #789
- in 1912
- First recorded
- 1880
- #870 that year
- Last recorded
- 2025
- still in the data
- Average birth year
- 1989
- weighted by recorded births
- Years recorded
- 123 of 146
- with gaps
Top five years
- 2017158#1,184Peak
- 1997152#904
- 2015150#1,225
- 1998146#953
- 2000144#1,017
Rank over time
Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.
Best rank #789 in 1912 · peak births 158 in 2017
Births by decade
Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade
Trajectory by decade
Where Ishmael has ranked, decade by decade
The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.
The girls' series
No girls have been recorded with this name.
Stated, not plotted as zero — the split bar and the unisex badge are omitted rather than drawn empty.