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Micael

#9,422 in 2025Boys' name

Who + like, through מִיכָאֵל

Micael has been given to 731 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #9,422 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2016, with 21 recorded.

Babies named Micael, 2025

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Micael: meaning, origin, and history

Who + like, through מִיכָאֵל

Latin

What Micael means

Micael belongs to the name family reached through Micael → מִיכָאֵל. Its meaning is “who + like”.

Origin, language, and formation

Micael is used in Leonese, Portuguese and Swedish. Its origins include Latin.

Micael comes through Old Leonese Migael and Latin Micaēl.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael, Miguel, Michel, Maicon, Maicol and מִיכָאֵל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Portuguese, Micael is pronounced /mi.kaˈɛw/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 731 boys were recorded with the name Micael between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 21 in 2016; its best national rank was #1,901 in 1959.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #10,230 in 2020 to #9,422 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 Micael?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 213,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#9,422
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Micael 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Micael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Micaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Micael was born before 1985 — so the typical Micael is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
15.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
28.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
724
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 15.3% of all recorded uses (112).

Is Micael 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
−1,298
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+808
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
38.1%
Peak was 2016 (21)
Years since peak
9
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,901
1959

Spellings of Micael

Micael is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 88.3% against Micael's 0.01%.

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.

Micael around the world

Where Micael 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
    2013–2023
    #4,992
    in 2023
  • France
    1948–2025
    #5,021
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,989
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Micael by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#9,422
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 808
Best rank ever
#1,901
1959
Peak year
2016
21 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
731
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Micael

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

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Sibling names for Micael

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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