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Esmail

Boys' name

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Esmail has been given to 19 babies in the U.S. since 2016. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2021, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Esmail, 2021

1 in 484,000

Esmail over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Esmail: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded; Arabic origin

Arabic

What Esmail means

Esmail is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Esmail is used in Maguindanao. Its origins include Arabic.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Maguindanao, Esmail is pronounced /ʔesmaˈil/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 19 boys were recorded with the name Esmail between 2016 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2021; its best national rank was #10,041 in 2021.

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 Esmail?

Esmail had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 484,000
7 of 3,389,958 births
Among boys only
1 in 250,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
335,678 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Esmail 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 2021 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 335,678 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Esmail. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Esmails were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Esmail was born before 2018 — so the typical Esmail is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
63.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
19
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 63.2% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Esmail 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2021 (7)
Years since peak
4
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#10,041
2021

Spellings of Esmail

Esmail is not the most common spelling — Ismael is, with 52.2% against Esmail's 0.02%.

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.

Esmail around the world

Where Esmail 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2016
    #3,478
    in 2016
  • France
    2008–2013
    #5,962
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Esmail by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,041
2021
Peak year
2021
7 that year
First recorded
2016
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
19
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Esmail

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

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Sibling names for Esmail

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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