Miqdad
#6,684 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Miqdad has been given to 29 babies in the U.S. since 2023. In 2025 it ranked #6,684 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 13 recorded.
Babies named Miqdad, 2025
1 in 255,000
Miqdad 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Miqdad?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 255,000
- 13 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 131,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #6,684
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 176,762 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Miqdad 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 176,762 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miqdad. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Miqdads were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Miqdad was born before 2024 — so the typical Miqdad is around 1 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 100.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 29
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 100.0% of all recorded uses (29).
Is Miqdad 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
- +2,070
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 100.0%
- Peak was 2025 (13)
- Years since peak
- Peaking now
- At its all-time high
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 36.5% average annual change
Miqdad around the world
Where Miqdad 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 & Wales2008–2025#3,684in 2025
- South Australia2013–2013#754in 2013
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.
Miqdad by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Miqdad
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Miqdad
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.