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Ismail name meaning

“God hears”

Letters
6
Syllables
3
First letter
I
Origin
Arabic · Hebrew
Category
Malay Names
Gender
♂ Boy
Peak 1940s: 18.8%
of the boy top-10 total
JPN Malay table, 1940s–2010s. JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)
Decadeboy
1940s18.8%
1950s18.2%
1960s14.8%
1970s10.1%
1980s6.8%
1990s–
2000s–
2010s–
168

records of Malaysian citizens on Wikidata carry the name Ismail

A count of Wikidata records, not of the population.

Malay Names: IMeaning faithArabic origin

Ismail is a boy's name from Arabic and Hebrew meaning 'God hears'.

What does Ismail mean?

God hears

In Malay: Allah mendengar

#Faith

Sources (2)

About the name Ismail

Ismail is the Arabic form إِسْمَاعِيل (ismāʿīl) of the Hebrew name yišmāʿēl, glossed 'God hears'. It is the name of the prophet Ismail, son of Ibrahim. The usual Malaysian spelling is Ismail, with variants such as Esmail. According to JPN, the name peaked in the 1950s with 7,992 baby boys.

Gender♂ Boy
OriginArabic, Hebrew
SyllablesIs-ma-il
First letterMalay Names starting with I
Arabic scriptإسماعيل
Devanagari scriptइस्माइल
Malayalam scriptഇസ്മാഈൽ

Ismail in official JPN data

1940s
Boy: 3,820 · 18.8%
1950s
Boy: 7,992 · 18.2%
1960s
Boy: 7,907 · 14.8%
1970s
Boy: 4,427 · 10.1%
1980s
Boy: 3,064 · 6.8%
1990s
not in the top 10
2000s
not in the top 10
2010s
not in the top 10
People registered with Ismail as their first name (as published by JPN), by decade of birth, for the decades in which it was in the top 10 for its sex in the JPN Malay table. Bar length shows the name’s share of that decade’s top-10 total for the sex (the percentage after the count), because those totals differ between decades. Source: JPN via data.gov.my (CC BY 4.0)

Compound names with Ismail

Sources

  1. Wiktionary: Ismail · en.wiktionary.org · origin
  2. Wiktionary: Ishmael · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

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