Ismah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- IS-ma
- Origin
- Arabic
- UK rank, 2025
- #1,961 for girls
Ismah is a girls' name of Arabic origin, meaning “protection, purity”. In 2025 it ranked 1,961st for girls in the UK (15 babies).
What does Ismah mean?
Arabic: spelling of Isma
“protection, purity”
In Islamic theology, isma is the protection from sin granted to the prophets.
Is Ismah a girl's or a boy's name?
Ismah is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 15 girls in the UK. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Ismah in the UK?
- Rank in 2025
- #1,961among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 15about 1 in 19,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Steadydown 5% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1%chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 15 girls in the UK were named Ismah, making it the 1,961st most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 1,780th. Its busiest year was 2012, with 19 girls.
2025 had more girls named Ismah than any year since 2020.
Half of all the girls named Ismah in the UK since 1996 were born between 2007 and 2019, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 18 girls in the UK were given Ismah or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #1,459, up from #1,961 for this spelling alone.
- Ismah 15
- Isma 3
Among girls in 2025, it was 1,892nd in England and Wales.
Ismah in the UK, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 15 | #1,961 |
| 2024 | 8 | #3,076 |
| 2023 | 12 | #2,329 |
| 2022 | 11 | #2,450 |
| 2021 | 10 | #2,658 |
| 2020 | 17 | #1,780 |
| 2019 | 11 | #2,420 |
| 2018 | 9 | #2,825 |
| 2017 | 14 | #2,099 |
| 2016 | 10 | #2,692 |
| 2015 | 11 | #2,458 |
| 2014 | 16 | #1,895 |
| 2013 | 14 | #2,061 |
| 2012 | 19 | #1,681 |
| 2011 | 13 | #2,152 |
| 2010 | 9 | #2,741 |
| 2009 | 11 | #2,298 |
| 2008 | 14 | #1,943 |
| 2007 | 10 | #2,354 |
| 2006 | 6 | #3,280 |
| 2005 | 5 | #3,543 |
| 2004 | 3 | #4,789 |
| 2003 | 9 | #2,109 |
| 2002 | 12 | #1,649 |
| 2001 | 15 | #1,398 |
| 2000 | 0 | – |
| 1999 | 4 | #3,374 |
| 1998 | 5 | #2,855 |
| 1997 | 4 | #3,345 |
| 1996 | 4 | #3,289 |
Names like Ismah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Safa Zainab Nusaybah Aaliyah Ayah Izzah Hafsa Hiba Ruqayyah Rahma Safaa Aaminah
Other spellings of Ismah
Names related to Ismah
More Arabic names
Muhammad Layla Mohammed Lyla Mohammad Zara Amir Amira Fatima Ali Yahya Zayn Aisha Omar Zahra Hamza
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland) and Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Ismah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/ismah, updated 20 October 2026.