Mikeal
Mikeal was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,257 among boys’ names; 2,405 Americans have been recorded with it since 1921 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,080 Americans named Mikeal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 38 years old and half are between 24 and 58.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikeal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikeal?
#13,257 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikeal fell from #4,831 in 2015 to #13,257 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 2.9 per million.
60 babies in 1952, the peak
Mikeal peaked in 1952, when 60 boys were given it, #921 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,257 | 2.9 |
| 2024 | 8 | #9,567 | 4.6 |
| 2023 | 8 | #9,455 | 4.7 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,709 | 7.4 |
| 2021 | 6 | #11,681 | 3.4 |
| 2020 | 9 | #8,506 | 5.2 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,647 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 13 | #6,577 | 7.2 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,684 | 11.3 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,000 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (84)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 20 | #4,831 | 10.4 |
| 2014 | 23 | #4,344 | 12.0 |
| 2013 | 16 | #5,555 | 8.5 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,497 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,064 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 31 | #3,507 | 16.2 |
| 2009 | 35 | #3,250 | 17.6 |
| 2008 | 40 | #2,988 | 19.6 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,758 | 13.5 |
| 2006 | 34 | #3,197 | 16.5 |
| 2005 | 40 | #2,737 | 20.0 |
| 2004 | 38 | #2,770 | 19.1 |
| 2003 | 41 | #2,534 | 20.8 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,154 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 28 | #3,194 | 14.4 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,555 | 18.8 |
| 1999 | 42 | #2,219 | 21.9 |
| 1998 | 41 | #2,223 | 21.5 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,984 | 24.4 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,164 | 20.6 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,077 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 35 | #2,280 | 18.1 |
| 1993 | 41 | #1,986 | 20.9 |
| 1992 | 37 | #2,110 | 18.5 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,635 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 28 | #2,466 | 13.6 |
| 1989 | 27 | #2,443 | 13.5 |
| 1988 | 29 | #2,174 | 15.1 |
| 1987 | 27 | #2,197 | 14.5 |
| 1986 | 34 | #1,823 | 18.5 |
| 1985 | 35 | #1,750 | 18.9 |
| 1984 | 26 | #2,079 | 14.4 |
| 1983 | 29 | #1,887 | 16.2 |
| 1982 | 25 | #2,147 | 13.8 |
| 1981 | 30 | #1,885 | 16.7 |
| 1980 | 20 | #2,498 | 11.2 |
| 1979 | 35 | #1,655 | 20.3 |
| 1978 | 28 | #1,855 | 17.1 |
| 1977 | 31 | #1,732 | 18.9 |
| 1976 | 23 | #2,092 | 14.7 |
| 1975 | 32 | #1,616 | 20.5 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,029 | 14.0 |
| 1973 | 26 | #1,763 | 16.7 |
| 1972 | 30 | #1,591 | 18.5 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,341 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 29 | #1,598 | 15.6 |
| 1969 | 33 | #1,407 | 18.5 |
| 1968 | 31 | #1,415 | 17.8 |
| 1967 | 24 | #1,591 | 13.8 |
| 1966 | 27 | #1,503 | 15.1 |
| 1965 | 31 | #1,398 | 16.7 |
| 1964 | 33 | #1,378 | 16.6 |
| 1963 | 27 | #1,531 | 13.3 |
| 1962 | 29 | #1,469 | 14.0 |
| 1961 | 36 | #1,342 | 16.9 |
| 1960 | 39 | #1,264 | 18.3 |
| 1959 | 34 | #1,353 | 15.9 |
| 1958 | 52 | #1,066 | 24.5 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,109 | 22.3 |
| 1956 | 37 | #1,275 | 17.5 |
| 1955 | 43 | #1,147 | 20.9 |
| 1954 | 39 | #1,209 | 19.1 |
| 1953 | 45 | #1,096 | 22.8 |
| 1952 | 60 | #921 | 30.9 |
| 1951 | 42 | #1,119 | 22.3 |
| 1950 | 22 | #1,596 | 12.3 |
| 1949 | 20 | #1,692 | 11.3 |
| 1948 | 21 | #1,641 | 12.0 |
| 1947 | 17 | #1,890 | 9.3 |
| 1946 | 12 | #2,231 | 7.4 |
| 1945 | 13 | #1,989 | 9.7 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,902 | 3.6 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,671 | 4.5 |
| 1921 | 6 | #4,177 | 5.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikeal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikeal has been given almost only to boys: 19 girls in 84 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mikeal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikeal, and how old are they?
2,080 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 2,405 Americans ever recorded as Mikeal. The median Mikeal alive today is 38 years old; half are between 24 and 58.
The 2020 Census counted 1,650 people named Mikeal (79 women and girls, 1,571 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,120 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 443 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 387 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 562 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 162 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,514 babies since 1880, Mikeal is the sixth most given (6.4% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 463 babies (1.1%), the eighth 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 Mikeal
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 Mikeal and names like it
- Compare Mikeal and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMikeal peaked in 1952.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikeal since 1910.
- The top names of 1952The year the most babies were named Mikeal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikeal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.