Ismael

Ismael is the Spanish and French form of Ishmael, from the Hebrew Yishma'el — God will hear. He is Abraham's elder son in Genesis and, in Islamic tradition, the direct ancestor of the Prophet Muhammad, which makes the name a quiet bridge between three faiths. Melville handed it to his narrator in Moby-Dick; the opening line "Call me Ishmael" is one of the most quoted in American letters. The Ismael spelling has long been standard in Latin America and francophone West Africa, and it has held steady in the U.S. top 300 for decades. Grave, melodic, genuinely global.