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Maikel

#4,806 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Michael

Maikel has been given to 311 babies in the U.S. since 2000. In 2025 it ranked #4,806 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2024, with 34 recorded.

Babies named Maikel, 2025

1 in 158,000

Maikel 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Maikel: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Maikel means

Maikel is a variant of Michael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Maikel is a variant of Michael. Michael has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 311 boys were recorded with the name Maikel between 2000 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 34 in 2024; its best national rank was #3,431 in 2024.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,862 in 2020 to #4,806 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #7,363 in 2015 to #4,806 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.

How common is Maikel?

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
#4,806
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
109,425 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Maikel 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 Maikel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Maikels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Maikel was born before 2019 — so the typical Maikel is around 6 today.

Median birth year
2019
About 6 years old
Biggest decade
2020s
44.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
98.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
311
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Choose a decade

2020s — 44.7% of all recorded uses (139).

Is Maikel 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
−1,375
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+3,056
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+2,557
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.91×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
61.8%
Peak was 2024 (34)
Years since peak
1
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
36.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,431
2024

Spellings of Maikel

Maikel is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 43.8% against Maikel's 0.07%.

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 Maikel is used

Across 1910–2025, Maikel was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 322,005 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 100,000
  2. 2Texas1 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. Maikel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Maikel around the world

Where Maikel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2024–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1987–2023
    #6,397
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1995–1995
    #533
    in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Maikel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#4,806
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 3,056
Best rank ever
#3,431
2024
Peak year
2024
34 that year
First recorded
2000
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
311
Count in 2025
21

Names similar to Maikel

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

MaisenMaicolMaijorMaikolMainorMaikaMaisynMaykelMaizeMaizenJakelMikkelMailoMaikoMaisonMaicoCheskelMakelMaitlandMickelMaironMaiconKelYecheskel

Sibling names for Maikel

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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