Given name & surname
Ismaila
“God will listen”
Ismaila is a variant of Ismaela. In Spanish use, Ismaela carries the interpretation “God will listen.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Ismaila is a variant of Ismaela. In Spanish use, Ismaela carries the interpretation “God will listen.”
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Ismaila through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 61
- 61 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2011
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 6 in 2024. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Its largest published annual count for boys was 8 in 2011. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 310 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Ismaila’s family of names
Ismaila has a related form in Ismaela. Ismaila has a conventional equivalent in the French form Ismaël.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Ismaila
- Ismaïla SarrSenegalese association football player (born 1998)
- Ismaila CoulibalyMalian association football playerborn 2000
- Mabo IsmailaNigerian association football manager1944–2023
- Ismaïla N'DiayeFrench-Senegalese footballerborn 1988
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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