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Mikiel

Boys' name

Who + like, through מִיכָאֵל

Mikiel has been given to 63 babies in the U.S. since 1983. 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 2007, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Mikiel, 2022

1 in 677,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mikiel: meaning, origin, and history

Who + like, through מִיכָאֵל

Hebrew, Latin and Sicilian

What Mikiel means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mikiel is used in Maltese. Its origins include Hebrew, Latin and Sicilian.

Mikiel comes through Latin Michaēl and Hebrew מִיכָאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael and מִיכָאֵל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Maltese, Mikiel is pronounced /mɪˈkɪːl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 63 boys were recorded with the name Mikiel between 1983 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2007; its best national rank was #6,953 in 1983.

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 Mikiel?

Mikiel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mikiel 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikiel was born before 2006 — so the typical Mikiel is around 19 today.

Median birth year
2006
About 19 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
47.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
84.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
63
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 47.6% of all recorded uses (30).

Is Mikiel 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 2007 (8)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#6,953
1983

Spellings of Mikiel

Mikiel is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 44.2% against Mikiel'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.

Mikiel around the world

Where Mikiel 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
    1997–1997
    #543
    in 1997

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

Mikiel 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
—
Best rank ever
#6,953
1983
Peak year
2007
8 that year
First recorded
1983
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
63
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mikiel

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

MikyngMikaiahMikariMikhaiMacielJexielMikeleDerielRacielOzzielMikayelMikhailoHasielXavielAmmielMikingJesielMikaeleJurielMikaalLenielMikaleMikhalZariel

Sibling names for Mikiel

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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