Given name
İsmail
İsmail is a masculine given name from Ottoman Turkish. It is used in Turkish.
Meaning & origin
İsmail’s family of names
In Turkish usage, İsmail has a conventional equivalent in the German form Ismael. In Turkish usage, İsmail has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ishmael. In Turkish usage, İsmail has a conventional equivalent in the French form Ismaël.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
İsmail has relatives in 3 languages. Lines run from its Turkish roots to each of them.
3 related names in 3 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named İsmail
- İsmail KöybaşıTurkish association football player (born 1989)
- İsmail YüksekTurkish association football player (born 1999)
- Cevat ÇobanlıTurkish general and statesperson (1870–1938)
- Şivan PerwerTurkish composer and singer-songwriter of Kurdish ancestry (born 1955)
- İsmail KartalTurkish association football player and manager (born 1961)
- İsmail OganTurkish wrestler (1933–2022)
- İsmail KüçükkayaTurkish journalist (born 1972)born 1970
- İsmail KahramanTurkish statesperson (born 1940)
- İsmail BeşikçiTurkish sociologist (born 1939)
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