Ismah
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ismah has been given to 30 babies in the U.S. since 2008. 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 2023, with 7 recorded.
Babies named Ismah, 2023
1 in 474,000
Ismah over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Ismah?
Ismah had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 229,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,234 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ismah sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,234 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ismah. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ismahs were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ismah was born before 2021 — so the typical Ismah is around 4 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 63.3% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 30
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 63.3% of all recorded uses (19).
Is Ismah 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
- —
- 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 2023 (7)
- Years since peak
- 2
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Steady
- 8.3% average annual change
Spellings of Ismah
Ismah is not the most common spelling — Irma is, with 42.4% against Ismah'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.
Ismah around the world
Where Ismah 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 & Wales1996–2025#1,892in 2025
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.
Ismah by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Ismah
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ismah
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.