Ismaeel is a first name for boys.
There’s a good chance that a boy named Ismaeel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Ismaeel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Ismaeel by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Ismaeel ranks at #3,995. That means there are 3,994 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Ismaeel.
The first name Ismaeel is a true rarity among all men and boys currently living in the United States – only 35 Americans in total bear this name. And these 35 men are located in only three states: California, New Jersey and New York (it should be noted that the official statistics provide the data per state only if there are at least 5 men with this name in the state. So, if your name is Ismaeel and you live outside the states marked on the map, please let us know so we can improve our statistics). The state with the most boys and men named Ismaeel in relation to it’s male population is New York. And yet even there, only one in 510,644 men would raise his hand if asked whether there was a Ismaeel present.
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 seven letters, the name Ismaeel has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight 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 Ismaeel 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 Ismaeel, you can simply say:
Igloo
Sun
Mouse
Apple
Elephant
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Ismaeel
Ismaeel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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M
A
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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.
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M
A
E
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. Ismaeel sounds like this:
