Ismaila
given name · English · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Ismaila is a given name, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Swahili, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Ishmael.
- ESSpain1 in 95K◐
- SESweden1 in 193K
- ISIceland1 in 351K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈970 ●
- Sources
- 7 ●
- 1 in 95K ◐
across 9 countries
76 records
Reference-verified
Spain
Meaning & origin●
Ishmael
Sources 1
- African Muslim Names
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | 527 | — | 1 in 95K | 527 | — | — |
| US United States | 301 | — | 1 in 1.1M | 301 | — | — |
| BR Brazil | 67 | — | 1 in 3.2M | 67 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | 53 | — | 1 in 193K | 53 | — | — |
| NG Nigeria | 33 | 74 rec. | — | listed | Ismaila | 7 |
| FI Finland | 8 | — | 1 in 696K | 45 | — | — |
| PL Poland | 8 | — | 1 in 4.8M | 8 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | 4 | — | 1 in 1.5M | 4 | — | — |
| MD Moldova | 1 | — | 1 in 3.4M | 1 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 1 | — | 1 in 351K | 1 | — | — |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | — | — | — | 153 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | — | — | 36 | — | — |
Roughly 527 people in Spain bear this name (about 1 in 95K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- English34K50%
- Swahili11K16%
- French6.1K9%
- Arabic3.3K5%
- Indonesian2.4K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| English | 34,267 | 50% |
| Swahili | 10,845 | 16% |
| French | 6,110 | 9% |
| Arabic | 3,278 | 5% |
| Indonesian | 2,379 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 11 |
| 2000 | 13 |
| 2001 | 14 |
| 2002 | 14 |
| 2003 | 16 |
| 2004 | 16 |
| 2005 | 17 |
| 2006 | 16 |
| 2007 | 18 |
| 2008 | 19 |
| 2009 | 19 |
| 2010 | 20 |
| 2011 | 20 |
| 2012 | 23 |
| 2013 | 24 |
| 2014 | 23 |
| 2015 | 24 |
| 2016 | 28 |
| 2017 | 29 |
| 2018 | 34 |
| 2019 | 34 |
| 2020 | 37 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Mabo Ismailab. 1944NGNigerian association football manager
- Ismaila Lassissib. 1969CIIvorian rugby union player
- Ismaïla N'Diayeb. 1988SNFrench-Senegalese footballer
- Ismaila Jomeb. 1994GMGambia association football player
- Ismaïla Sarrb. 1998SNSenegalese association football player (born 1998)
- Ismaila Coulibalyb. 2000MLMalian association football player
- Ismaila ShittuNGresearcher
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence●
Attested in 38 sources across 22 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| IN India | India Names Dataset — Andhra Pradesh Electoral Rolls (Internet Archive) | — | 557 | #4,796 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 527 | #4,404 |
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 424 | #2,367 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 301 | #28,814 |
| CI Côte d’Ivoire | nomprenoms.ci — ranked Ivorian surname frequencies | — | 153 | #2,678 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 67 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 67 | #28,952 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 62 | #54,512 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 54 | #46,622 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 53 | #13,182 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 46 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 45 | #9,028 |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 72 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Ismaila?
- We estimate roughly 970 people bear Ismaila (counting its spellings and scripts) across 9 countries in our records.
- In which country does Ismaila have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 527 people bear Ismaila in Spain, more than in any other country in our records.
- Where is Ismaila most common?
- Ismaila is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 95 thousand people carrying it.
- Is Ismaila a male or female name?
- Ismaila is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Ismaila mean?
- Recorded meaning: Ishmael
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About this data
Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Ismaila”. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.