Mikael
Mikael was given to 176 boys in 2025, #1,175 among boys’ names; 6,239 Americans have been recorded with it since 1944 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 6,020 Americans named Mikael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 8 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikael mean?
Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section
Mikael is “a male given name from Latin [in turn from Ancient Greek, in turn from Biblical Hebrew], equivalent to English Michael” Its etymology gives the senses “male given name” (Michael) and “male given name” (Μιχαήλ) and “who is like God?” (מִיכָאֵל).
Borrowed from Latin Michael (“male given name”), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl, “male given name”), from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (Mīḵāʾēl, “who is like God?”). Compare Danish Mikael, Swedish Mikael, Icelandic Mikael and Finnish Mikael (“male given name”).
/ˈmiː.kɑː.ɛl/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Norwegian Bokmål section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikael?
#1,175 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikael rose from #1,181 in 2015 to #1,175 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.08 to 0.10 per 1,000.
228 babies in 2023, the peak
Mikael peaked in 2023, when 228 babies were given it (223 boys, #990 among boys’ names). The 176 births of 2025 are 77% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 176 | #1,175 | 0.10 |
| 2024 | 188 | #1,130 | 0.11 |
| 2023 | 223 | #990 | 0.13 |
| 2022 | 191 | #1,116 | 0.11 |
| 2021 | 205 | #1,047 | 0.12 |
| 2020 | 186 | #1,075 | 0.11 |
| 2019 | 208 | #1,006 | 0.12 |
| 2018 | 164 | #1,172 | 0.09 |
| 2017 | 193 | #1,045 | 0.10 |
| 2016 | 215 | #961 | 0.11 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 158 | #1,181 | 0.08 |
| 2014 | 150 | #1,222 | 0.08 |
| 2013 | 162 | #1,125 | 0.09 |
| 2012 | 164 | #1,123 | 0.09 |
| 2011 | 133 | #1,293 | 0.07 |
| 2010 | 136 | #1,280 | 0.07 |
| 2009 | 118 | #1,430 | 0.06 |
| 2008 | 132 | #1,323 | 0.06 |
| 2007 | 132 | #1,309 | 0.06 |
| 2006 | 123 | #1,338 | 0.06 |
| 2005 | 100 | #1,468 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 100 | #1,422 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 94 | #1,414 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 96 | #1,376 | 0.05 |
| 2001 | 89 | #1,406 | 0.05 |
| 2000 | 101 | #1,284 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 104 | #1,219 | 0.05 |
| 1998 | 93 | #1,291 | 0.05 |
| 1997 | 80 | #1,379 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 85 | #1,294 | 0.04 |
| 1995 | 87 | #1,247 | 0.05 |
| 1994 | 84 | #1,276 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 87 | #1,207 | 0.04 |
| 1992 | 74 | #1,310 | 0.04 |
| 1991 | 88 | #1,180 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 70 | #1,326 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 79 | #1,209 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 79 | #1,126 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 61 | #1,255 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 65 | #1,183 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 69 | #1,121 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 32 | #1,788 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 46 | #1,390 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 49 | #1,349 | 0.03 |
| 1981 | 48 | #1,368 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 43 | #1,461 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 45 | #1,404 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 34 | #1,640 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 27 | #1,887 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 31 | #1,696 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 24 | #1,982 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 26 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,762 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 28 | #1,669 | 0.02 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,340 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 20 | #2,036 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 16 | #2,195 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 17 | #2,006 | 0.01 |
| 1967 | 18 | #1,881 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 16 | #2,020 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,654 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 12 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,897 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 10 | #2,788 | under 0.01 |
| 1961 | 8 | #3,277 | under 0.01 |
| 1960 | 11 | #2,636 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,079 | 0.01 |
| 1958 | 13 | #2,333 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 15 | #2,161 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 16 | #2,064 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 13 | #2,280 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 13 | #2,279 | 0.01 |
| 1953 | 9 | #2,842 | under 0.01 |
| 1952 | 16 | #1,987 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,075 | under 0.01 |
| 1950 | 14 | #2,086 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,939 | under 0.01 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,728 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 7 | #3,268 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,749 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 6,239 Americans recorded as Mikael, 5% are girls and 95% boys. In 2025 it went to 176 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mikael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikael, and how old are they?
6,020 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 6,239 Americans ever recorded as Mikael. The median Mikael alive today is 18 years old; half are between 8 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 4,993 people named Mikael (315 women and girls, 4,678 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,956 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 2 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 138 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 393 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,190 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,430 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Mikael born?
The states with the most babies named Mikael are California, Texas and New York, with 57% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 29 | #841 | 1.0× |
| Texas | 24 | #1,000 | 1.0× |
| New York | 17 | #829 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 13 | #1,040 | 1.3× |
| Illinois | 8 | #990 | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,056 | 0.5× |
| Colorado | 7 | #733 | 0.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,192 | 0.5× |
| New Jersey | 6 | #996 | 0.6× |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,203 | 0.6× |
Where Mikael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikael is most over-represented in Florida: since 1944 it was given 1.3 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mikael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,514 babies since 1880, Mikael is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 176 of their 463 babies (38%), the 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 Mikael
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 Mikael and names like it
- Compare Mikael and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMikael peaked in 2023.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikael since 1910.
- Ancient Greek namesWiktionary’s origin for Mikael: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2023The year the most babies were named Mikael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mikael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.