Given name & surname
Ismet
“one who is honored”
Ismet is used as a given name and a surname. One Turkish interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
One Turkish interpretation is “one who is honored.”
Where it comes from
An origin associated with this spelling is Turkish.
How it developed
From Ottoman Turkish عصمت (Ismet), from Arabic عِصْمَة (“defense, virtue, infallibility”); its root is Arabic ع ص م.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
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
Ismet through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10
- 10 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2003
- 5 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 5 in 2006. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 736 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.
Ismet’s family of names
Ismet has a related form in Ismit. Ismet has a related form in Ismyt. In Ottoman Turkish usage, Ismet is a Roman-alphabet rendering of عصمت.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: nicknames and forms.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
People named Ismet
- Ismet MujezinovićBosnian painter (1907-1984)
- Ismet MunishiAlbanian footballerborn 1974
- Ismet HadžićYugoslav footballer (1954-2015)
- Ismat GayibovAzerbaijani politician (1942-1991)
- Ismet BajramovićBosnian soldier (1966-2008)
- Ismet PopovacBosnia Herzegovina soldier1902–1943
- Ismet Bey KryeziuAlbanian politician1889–1952
- Ismet Cheriff VanlySyrian historian1924–2011
- Ismet Shaqiri1918–1986
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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