Isma'il Surname

4,034,050th
Most Common
surname in the World

Approximately 24 people bear this surname

Most prevalent in:
Nigeria
Highest density in:
Iceland

Isma'il Surname

The meaning of this surname is not listed.

Isma'il Surname Distribution Map

PlaceIncidenceFrequencyRank in Area
Nigeria121:14,761,896248,185
Indonesia31:44,083,065698,220
England21:27,859,030389,889
United Arab Emirates21:4,581,13693,443
United States21:181,229,4661,556,795
Egypt11:91,935,754132,737
Iceland11:380,09011,096
Somalia11:13,452,0619,224

Isma'il (80) may also be a first name.

Isma'il Last Name Facts

Where Does The Last Name Isma'il Come From? nationality or country of origin

Isma'il is carried by more people in Nigeria than any other country/territory. It can be rendered in the variant forms:. Click here for further potential spellings of Isma'il.

How Common Is The Last Name Isma'il? popularity and diffusion

The surname Isma'il is the 4,034,050th most widely held family name internationally, held by around 1 in 303,647,746 people. This last name occurs mostly in Africa, where 58 percent of Isma'il are found; 50 percent are found in West Africa and 50 percent are found in Atlantic-Niger Africa. Isma'il is also the 1,075,395th most common forename worldwide. It is borne by 80 people.

It is most prevalent in Nigeria, where it is borne by 12 people, or 1 in 14,761,896. Apart from Nigeria this last name exists in 7 countries. It also occurs in Indonesia, where 13 percent live and England, where 8 percent live.

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Footnotes

  • Surnames are taken as the first part of an person's inherited family name, caste, clan name or in some cases patronymic
  • Name distribution statistics are generated from a global database of over 4 billion people - more information
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  • Rank: Name are ranked by incidence using the ordinal ranking method; the name that occurs the most is assigned a rank of 1; name that occur less frequently receive an incremented rank; if two or more name occur the same number of times they are assigned the same rank and successive rank is incremented by the total preceeding names
  • Ethnic group cannot necessarily be determined by geographic occurrence
  • Similar: Names listed in the "Similar" section are phonetically similar and may not have any relation to Isma'il
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