Michae

UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning not yet documented

Michae has been given to 544 babies in the U.S. since 1949. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1960, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 90% boys, 10% girls all-time.

Babies named Michae, 2009

1 in 764,000

Michae over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Michae over time

In 2009, Michae went to 55% girls and 45% boys.

19492009

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

How common is Michae?

Michae had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2009, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2009
1 in 764,000
5 of 3,820,315 births
Among boys only
1 in 397,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2009
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
529,609 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michae 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 2009 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 529,609 children born in 2009 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michae. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michaes were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michae was born before 1966 — so the typical Michae is around 59 today.

Median birth year
1966
About 59 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
33.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
13.0%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
484
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1960s — 33.3% of all recorded uses (164).

Is Michae 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1960 (31)
Years since peak
65
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
38.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,452
1960

Spellings of Michae

Michae is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 93.4% against Michae'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.

Michae around the world

Where Michae 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.

  • South Australia
    1976–1976
    #651
    in 1976

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Michae by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,452
1960
Peak year
1960
31 that year
First recorded
1949
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
492
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#10,752
1987
Peak year
1994
7 that year
First recorded
1981
Last recorded
2009
All-time count
52
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michae

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

Sibling names for Michae

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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