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Misael

#734 in 2025Boys' name

Variant of Mishael

Misael has been given to 10,411 babies in the U.S. since 1955. In 2025 it ranked #734 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 385 recorded.

Babies named Misael, 2025

1 in 9,230

Misael over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Misael: meaning, origin, and history

Variant of Mishael

Hebrew

What Misael means

Misael is a variant of Mishael.

Origin, language, and formation

Misael is used in English and Spanish. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mishael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 10,395 boys were recorded with the name Misael between 1955 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 385 in 2006; its best national rank was #617 in 2006.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #816 in 2020 to #734 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #878 in 2015 to #734 in 2025.

In the United States, 16 girls were recorded with the name Misael between 1989 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1995; its best national rank was #12,809 in 1995.

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 Misael?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 9,230
359 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 4,760
0.02% of boys
Rank, 2025
#734
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
6,402 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Misael 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 1001%
School of 5005%

Put another way: gather 6,402 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Misael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Misaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Misael was born before 2008 — so the typical Misael is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
29.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
72.1%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
10,395
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 29.7% of all recorded uses (3,084).

Is Misael 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
−9
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
+82
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+144
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.41×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
93.2%
Peak was 2006 (385)
Years since peak
19
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Steady
6.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#617
2006

Spellings of Misael

Misael is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 92.2% against Misael's 0.22%.

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 Misael is used

Across 2016–2025, Misael was most concentrated in Arizona — about 1 in 1,923 boys, against 1 in 5,092 across all states with data. It was least common in Ohio (1 in 100,000).

152 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Arizona1 in 1,923
  2. 2New Mexico1 in 2,128
  3. 3California1 in 2,778
  4. 4Texas1 in 2,857
  5. 5Illinois1 in 4,545
  6. 6Nevada1 in 4,545
  7. 7New Jersey1 in 5,000
  8. 8Colorado1 in 5,556

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.

Geographically, Misael is one of the more regionally concentrated names in the country — more concentrated than 91% of the names used widely enough to compare. See the most regional names

Misael around the world

Where Misael 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.

  • France
    1901–2025
    #4,055
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2018–2022
    #2,602
    in 2022

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Misael

People whose public names include Misael, 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.

Misael in other languages

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

Misaele

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

Misael by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#734
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 82
Best rank ever
#617
2006
Peak year
2006
385 that year
First recorded
1955
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
10,395
Count in 2025
359

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#12,809
1995
Peak year
1995
6 that year
First recorded
1989
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
16
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Misael

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

MissaelMishaelMikaelIshmaelAzraelMisterIsmaelRaphaelAzaelIsraelIsaelIzraelRafaelYaelMishaKaelCaelIzaelAsaelJaelYisraelMicaelMickaelAbimael

Names with a curve like Misael

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

AlonsoZechariahTraceJulienMenachemIsaiUrielKoleJabariBlazeUlisesJovanni

Sibling names for Misael

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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