Ismail
157
Babies in 2024
-23%
10-year change
2008
Peak · 205
+1%
vs 2023
Trajectory · 1996→2024
Years with no bar had fewer than 3 babies with this name — ONS suppresses counts of 2 or fewer for privacy.
About the name Ismail
Ismail peaked among UK boys' names in the late 2000s (205 babies in 2008) and has remained in active use — 157 boys were registered in England & Wales in 2024.
Ismail reached its peak in 2008, when 205 boys were registered in England & Wales — ranked #225 for UK boys that year. Today's count of 157 keeps the name in regular use.
Across 29 years of ONS data since 1996, a total of 4,578 boys have been officially registered with the name Ismail in England & Wales. In the past decade alone (2014–2024), 1,960 boys were registered with the name, starting from 204 in 2014 and ending at 157 in 2024.