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Maicol

#4,805 in 2025Boys' name

Who is like God?, through Michael

Maicol has been given to 282 babies in the U.S. since 2002. In 2025 it ranked #4,805 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Maicol, 2025

1 in 158,000

Maicol over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maicol: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maicol means

Maicol belongs to the name family reached through Maicol → Michael. Its meaning is “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Maicol is used in Portuguese.

Maicol comes through English Michael.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miguel, Michel, Micael and Michael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Maicol is pronounced /ˈmaj.kow/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 282 boys were recorded with the name Maicol between 2002 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2023; its best national rank was #4,415 in 2023.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #4,639 in 2020 to #4,805 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,361 in 2015 to #4,805 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Maicol?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 158,000
21 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 81,300
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#4,805
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maicol sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 109,425 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maicol. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maicols were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maicol was born before 2017 — so the typical Maicol is around 8 today.

Median birth year
2017
About 8 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
42.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
282
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2020s — 42.6% of all recorded uses (120).

Is Maicol rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
+5
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
−166
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,556
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
87.5%
Peak was 2023 (24)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#4,415
2023

Spellings of Maicol

Maicol is not the most common spelling — Marco is, with 32.7% against Maicol's 0.12%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Maicol is used

Across 1910–2025, Maicol was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 2,652,691 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Texas1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Maicol has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maicol by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,805
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 166
Best rank ever
#4,415
2023
Peak year
2023
24 that year
First recorded
2002
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
282
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Maicol

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MaikelMaisenMaijorMaikolMainorMaikaMaisynMaycolMaizeMaizenMailoMaikoMaicoMaisonMaitlandMaironMaiconMaiyonMaikiMaikMaierMairaMaiwandMaichael

Sibling names for Maicol

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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