The ISHMAEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	2,538	11385	0.001	9
United States (1880 census)	242	16755	0	5
Change since 1880	+2296	+5370	+N/A	+4
Other Countries
Australia	10	89653	0	1
United Kingdom	152	19305	0	3

Top States for ISHMAEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Texas	257	7618	0.001	12
Kentucky	246	2316	0.006	61
Illinois	216	6310	0.002	17
New York	212	9455	0.001	11
Florida	168	11353	0.001	11
Top States for ISHMAEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
South Dakota	55	2248	0.007	73
Kentucky	246	2316	0.006	61
Oklahoma	168	2948	0.005	49
Missouri	152	5015	0.003	27
Arkansas	57	5295	0.002	21

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called ISHMAEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called ISHMAEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called ISHMAEL in Texas than any other state, but you are more likely to find a ISHMAEL by picking someone at random in South Dakota than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of ISHMAEL

Region of origin: Europe

Ethnic distribution of ISHMAEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Black/African American	444	17.49
Mixed Race	157	6.19
Asian/Pacific	98	3.86
White (Hispanic)	49	1.93
Native American/Alaskan	34	1.34
White (Caucasian)	1,756	69.19

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the ISHMAEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to ISHMAEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as ISHMAEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.

Matches are generated automatically by a combination of Soundex, Metaphone and Levenshtein matching.