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Esmael

#7,834 in 2025Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Esmael has been given to 94 babies in the U.S. since 1931. In 2025 it ranked #7,834 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Esmael, 2025

1 in 332,000

Esmael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esmael: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Esmael means

Esmael is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Esmael is used in Maguindanao. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Maguindanao, Esmael is pronounced /ʔesmaˈel/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 94 boys were recorded with the name Esmael between 1931 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,269 in 1937.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #12,623 in 2020 to #7,834 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Esmael?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 332,000
10 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 171,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#7,834
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
229,791 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esmael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 229,791 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esmael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esmaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esmael was born before 2019 — so the typical Esmael is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
46.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.3%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
83
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Choose a decade

2020s — 46.8% of all recorded uses (44).

Is Esmael rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+99
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+4,789
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2024 (10)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,269
1937

Spellings of Esmael

Esmael is not the most common spelling — Israel is, with 52.4% against Esmael's 0.07%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Esmael around the world

Where Esmael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1985–2017
    #6,805
    in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Esmael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#7,834
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 4,789
Best rank ever
#3,269
1937
Peak year
2024
10 that year
First recorded
1931
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
94
Count in 2025
10

Names similar to Esmael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Esmael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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