Mikael — #1130 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mikael

The Social Security Administration has registered 5,761 babies named Mikael between 1944 and 2024, spanning 81 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mikael currently holds the #1130 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2023, when 223 babies received it in a single year. Mikael is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 300 additional births since 1972.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mikael performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,683 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Mikael shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 799 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Mikael in 24 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mikael in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 5,761 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.