Ishmel is a first name for boys.
Recently, the name Ishmel has been given only a handful of times a year and is therefore particularly rare, at least in the US. In recent years, not even one boy in 100,000 has been named Ishmel. That means that a boy named Ishmel is exceptional and may not meet another person with the same name his whole life. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ishmel.
Do you know the feeling when you go to the zoo and the animal that is supposed to be in the enclosure is not there? You know it should to be there, but you've never seen it? It's the same with Ishmel. Boys named Ishmel have made themselves scarce. But some parents got a taste for it many years ago: Reaching pos. 1,983 Ishmel ranked higher than ever in 1946. By comparison, there have been 102 years in which the first name Ishmel has not been given at all (or less than 5 times, which is the minimum number required for a name to be included in the statistics), most recently in 2021. In general, parents name their sons Ishmel only once in a blue moon, so boys and men with this name can consider themselves really special!
In years where the graph has no value, the name Ishmel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Ishmel continues to be a precious jewel: 6 newborns were named Ishmel that year, ranking #9,177 in the SmartGenius name statistics. If your baby's name is Ishmel, you must have a flair for beautiful and rare names: Congratulations, your child is sure to feel unique.
If you ever wanted to meet a boy or man named Ishmel, you have limited options – because boys with this beautiful name are currently only living in Kentucky or New York. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Ishmel living in one state or another. (If your name is Ishmel and you live outside of Kentucky and New York, we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Which means – if you put this number in relation to the population of the USA – only one in 563,577 boys and men would turn around if you called out the name Ishmel. So if your name is Ishmel, it’s very likely that you won’t need a nickname in your peer group, because having the name Ishmel already makes you quite special.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter I is quite rare as a first letter for boys' names: only 1.5% of all common boys' names in the US begin with an I. The most common first letters of boys' names, by the way, are J, A and D, while X, U and Q are the least common initials of boys' names.
With six letters, the name Ishmel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that if 1.5% of all boys' names begin with an I, this initial letter is significantly less common than the other letters on average. Nevertheless, there are boys' names with I that are quite popular, the most common at present is Isaac.
If your name is Ishmel and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Ishmel, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Hat
Mouse
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ishmel
Ishmel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
I
S
H
M
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
I
S
H
M
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Ishmel sounds like this:
