Given name

Isma'ilu

Isma'ilu is a masculine given name from Arabic. It is used in Hausa.

Meaning & origin

Where it comes from

Isma'ilu comes from Arabic.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

How it developed

From Arabic إِسْمَاعِيل.

Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)

Isma'ilu’s family of names

In Hausa usage, Isma'ilu has a conventional equivalent in the English form Ishmael.

Walk Isma'ilu’s family in the name graph

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The ring: across languages.

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