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Mikael

#1,175 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Who is like God?

Mikael has been given to 6,239 babies in the U.S. since 1944. In 2025 it ranked #1,175 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2023, with 223 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% boys, 5% girls all-time.

Babies named Mikael, 2025

1 in 18,800

Mikael 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mikael over time

In 2025, Mikael went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19442025

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.

Mikael: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?

Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew and Latin

What Mikael means

Mikael means “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mikael is used in Danish, Finnish, Icelandic, Norwegian Bokmål and Swedish. Its origins include Ancient Greek, Biblical Hebrew and Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Danish, Mikael is pronounced [ˈmikʰæːˀl].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,939 boys were recorded with the name Mikael between 1944 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 223 in 2023; its best national rank was #961 in 2016.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #1,075 in 2020 to #1,175 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #1,181 in 2015 to #1,175 in 2025.

In the United States, 300 girls were recorded with the name Mikael between 1972 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 19 in 1998; its best national rank was #5,086 in 1976.

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 Mikael?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 18,800
176 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 9,700
0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#1,175
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
13,057 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mikael 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 5003%

Put another way: gather 13,057 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikael was born before 2009 — so the typical Mikael is around 16 today.

Median birth year
2009
About 16 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
28.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
64.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
5,905
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 28.3% of all recorded uses (1,683).

Is Mikael 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
−45
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−100
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
+6
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.11×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
78.9%
Peak was 2023 (223)
Years since peak
2
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#961
2016

Spellings of Mikael

Mikael is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 90.2% against Mikael'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 Mikael is used

Across 2016–2025, Mikael was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 5,263 boys, against 1 in 8,464 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in 50,000).

219 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 5,263
  2. 2New York1 in 5,263
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 5,882
  4. 4California1 in 6,667
  5. 5Illinois1 in 7,143
  6. 6Texas1 in 7,143
  7. 7Virginia1 in 7,692
  8. 8Washington1 in 8,333

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.

Mikael around the world

Where Mikael 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
    1996–2025
    #578
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2011–2021
    #720
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2012–2023
    #584
    in 2023
  • France
    1924–2025
    #920
    in 2025
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #155
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #460
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1989–2011
    #784
    in 2011

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

Notable people named Mikael

People whose public names include Mikael, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mikael in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mikael. Linked forms have their own page here.

MikaMikoMihaiMiikaMikkoMayconMicaelMichalMichelMiguelMihaelMikailMikkelMiquelMichaelMichailMicheleMichielMikhailMitchelMykolasMykhailoMikkeMiska

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mikael by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#1,175
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 100
Best rank ever
#961
2016
Peak year
2023
223 that year
First recorded
1944
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,939
Count in 2025
176

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,086
1976
Peak year
1998
19 that year
First recorded
1972
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
300
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mikael

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

MikhaelMikealMikhailMikahMikalMikellMikelMikailMisaelAzraelMikkelMikeyIshmaelAzaelIsaelMikkoMikaleMikaiIzraelYaelMikingMikaMikloKael

Names with a curve like Mikael

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mikael, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

YaakovShmuelShlomoYitzchokYisroelMordechaiTorinAvrahamMustafaShimonAndersSami

Sibling names for Mikael

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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