Ishmeal

Boy · recorded 1916–2017

  • 2017last recorded
  • 1916best year

Most popular in 1916.

Last recorded in 2017. Fewer than five boys a year have been given it since, so it's a true rarity.

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Meaning

We don’t have a verified meaning for Ishmeal.

We only publish meanings we can cite to a source you could check yourself. Most sites will give you one anyway; the ones you find elsewhere are often copied between sites without verification.

Its story

Popularity since 1916

051019161941196719922017

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Per million boys born. Years with fewer than five births are not in the record, so the line breaks rather than dropping to zero.
See the 42 recorded years as a table
Ishmeal, per million boys born. Years absent from the table had fewer than five births.
YearPer million
191610
19198
19215
19226
19265
19277
19285
19296
19315
19386
19414
19424
19612
19693
19703
19813
19823
19865
19874
19885
19892
19904
19926
19936
19947
19955
19964
19977
19984
19995
20004
20015
20033
20043
20053
20064
20072
20082
20093
20104
20153
20174

Where it’s loved

Most popular in these states

Ishmeal isn’t concentrated in any one state. Either it’s spread evenly, or no state reaches the 25 births over three years needed before a rate means anything.

More like it

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The numbers

Every figure

Births in 2017
7
Rank in 2017
#9,696
How rare
1 in 264,422 boys
Since 1916
301

Ishmeal was last recorded in 2017. Fewer than five boys have been given the name in any year since, which is the point below which the record stops reporting.

Most popular in 1916, at 10 per million boys born.

There isn’t enough data for a ten-year trend: Ishmeal doesn’t appear in both ends of that window.

Figures from the US Social Security Administration’s 2025 release. How these numbers are made.