Ismar
#12,753 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Ismar has been given to 115 babies in the U.S. since 1993. In 2025 it ranked #12,753 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 10 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.
Babies named Ismar, 2025
1 in 663,000
Ismar 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Ismar over time
In 2025, Ismar went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.
How common is Ismar?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #12,753
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Ismar sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ismar. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Ismars were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Ismar was born before 2006 — so the typical Ismar is around 19 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 55.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.7%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 104
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 55.8% of all recorded uses (58).
Is Ismar 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
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 50.0%
- Peak was 2008 (10)
- Years since peak
- 17
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 29.2% average annual change
Spellings of Ismar
Ismar is not the most common spelling — Isaac is, with 38.2% against Ismar's 0.01%.
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.
Where Ismar is used — girls
Across 1910–2025, Ismar was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,668,796 across all states with data.
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Ismar has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Ismar around the world
Where Ismar 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.
- South Australia2008–2008#726in 2008
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Ismar by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Ismar
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Ismar
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.