Mikeal
#13,257 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mikeal has been given to 2,405 babies in the U.S. since 1921. In 2025 it ranked #13,257 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1952, with 60 recorded.
Babies named Mikeal, 2025
1 in 663,000
Mikeal over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mikeal?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,257
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mikeal sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikeal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mikeals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikeal was born before 1983 — so the typical Mikeal is around 42 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 17.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 23.6%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,287
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 17.7% of all recorded uses (422).
Is Mikeal 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
- −3,690
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −4,751
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −8,426
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.25×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 8.3%
- Peak was 1952 (60)
- Years since peak
- 73
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.9% average annual change
Spellings of Mikeal
Mikeal is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 49.7% against Mikeal's 0.58%.
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 Mikeal is used
Across 1910–2025, Mikeal was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 326,348 across all states with data. It was least common in Oklahoma (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Texas1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Michigan1 in —
- 4Missouri1 in —
- 5North Carolina1 in —
- 6Ohio1 in —
- 7Oklahoma1 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. Mikeal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mikeal around the world
Where Mikeal 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 & Wales2007–2014#4,632in 2014
- South Australia1992–1992#538in 1992
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mikeal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mikeal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Mikeal
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mikeal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Mikeal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.