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Ismet

Boys' name

Defense, virtue, infallibility

Ismet has been given to 10 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2003, with 5 recorded.

Babies named Ismet, 2006

1 in 791,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Ismet: meaning, origin, and history

Defense, virtue, infallibility

Arabic

What Ismet means

Ismet means “defense, virtue, infallibility”, associated with ʕiṣma.

Origin, language, and formation

Ismet is used in Albanian and Serbo-Croatian. Its origins include Arabic.

Ismet comes through Ottoman Turkish عصمت and Arabic عِصْمَة.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Ismet is pronounced /ismet/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Ismet between 2003 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 5 in 2003; its best national rank was #11,556 in 2003.

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 Ismet?

Ismet had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 791,000
5 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 411,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
548,442 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Ismet 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 2006 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 548,442 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Ismet. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Ismets were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Ismet was born before 2003 — so the typical Ismet is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
100.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
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2000s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (10).

Is Ismet 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 2003 (5)
Years since peak
22
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#11,556
2003

Spellings of Ismet

Ismet is not the most common spelling — Ismael is, with 80.4% against Ismet'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.

Ismet around the world

Where Ismet 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
    1999–2015
    #4,747
    in 2015
  • France
    1972–2025
    #4,721
    in 2025
  • South Australia
    1957–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Ismet 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
#11,556
2003
Peak year
2003
5 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Ismet

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

IsmelIsmoilIsmarSametKermetKismetClemetIsmealKemetIsmaaeelIsmailaIsmaeelAhmetEmetMehmetIsmailEmmetIsmael

Sibling names for Ismet

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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