Michoel
Michoel was given to 11 boys in 2025, #7,507 among boys’ names; 232 Americans have been recorded with it since 1991 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michoel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michoel?
#7,507 among boys’ names, 2025
Michoel fell from #6,944 in 2015 to #7,507 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 6.3 to 6.4 per million.
24 babies in 2022, the peak
Michoel peaked in 2022, when 24 boys were given it, #4,388 among boys’ names. The 11 births of 2025 are 46% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 11 | #7,507 | 6.4 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,820 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 23 | #4,562 | 13.4 |
| 2022 | 24 | #4,388 | 13.7 |
| 2021 | 9 | #8,603 | 5.1 |
| 2020 | 8 | #9,263 | 4.6 |
| 2017 | 6 | #11,709 | 3.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #6,999 | 6.3 |
| 2015 | 12 | #6,944 | 6.3 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,371 | 4.2 |
Every recorded year (24)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #11,773 | 3.2 |
| 2011 | 7 | #10,382 | 3.7 |
| 2009 | 6 | #11,964 | 3.0 |
| 2008 | 6 | #12,063 | 2.9 |
| 2007 | 9 | #8,674 | 4.3 |
| 2006 | 10 | #7,810 | 4.9 |
| 2005 | 7 | #9,794 | 3.5 |
| 2004 | 5 | #12,578 | 2.5 |
| 2003 | 10 | #7,065 | 5.1 |
| 2002 | 7 | #9,071 | 3.6 |
| 2001 | 8 | #8,052 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,570 | 2.5 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,630 | 3.2 |
| 1991 | 6 | #7,907 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Michoel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michoel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 24 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michoel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michoel, and how old are they?
An estimated 229 Americans named Michoel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 4 and 20. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Michoel (3 women and girls, 205 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 137 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,623,861 babies since 1880, Michoel is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 11 of their 8,285 babies (<1%), the fourth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Michoel
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Michoel and names like it
- Compare Michoel and MichaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMichoel peaked in 2022.
- New Jersey’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michoel since 1910.
- The top names of 2022The year the most babies were named Michoel.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Michoel alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.