Mikhael
Mikhael was given to 48 boys in 2025, #2,704 among boys’ names; 1,171 Americans have been recorded with it since 1963 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,150 Americans named Mikhael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 12 years old and half are between 6 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikhael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikhael?
#2,704 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikhael fell from #2,338 in 2015 to #2,704 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 29.2 to 28.1 per million.
65 babies in 2020, the peak
Mikhael peaked in 2020, when 65 boys were given it, #2,161 among boys’ names. The 48 births of 2025 are 74% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 48 | #2,704 | 28.1 |
| 2024 | 43 | #2,942 | 25.0 |
| 2023 | 50 | #2,644 | 29.2 |
| 2022 | 37 | #3,255 | 21.2 |
| 2021 | 54 | #2,480 | 30.9 |
| 2020 | 65 | #2,161 | 37.7 |
| 2019 | 64 | #2,204 | 35.7 |
| 2018 | 45 | #2,732 | 24.8 |
| 2017 | 48 | #2,618 | 25.9 |
| 2016 | 44 | #2,752 | 23.2 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 56 | #2,338 | 29.2 |
| 2014 | 32 | #3,434 | 16.7 |
| 2013 | 24 | #4,137 | 12.7 |
| 2012 | 31 | #3,498 | 16.3 |
| 2011 | 25 | #4,065 | 13.2 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,467 | 11.5 |
| 2009 | 18 | #5,241 | 9.1 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,185 | 8.8 |
| 2007 | 23 | #4,319 | 11.1 |
| 2006 | 11 | #7,262 | 5.4 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,012 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,024 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,553 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 14 | #5,301 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 12 | #5,900 | 6.2 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,865 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 16 | #4,473 | 8.3 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,130 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 19 | #3,684 | 10.1 |
| 1996 | 13 | #4,787 | 6.9 |
| 1995 | 14 | #4,429 | 7.4 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,012 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 16 | #3,950 | 8.2 |
| 1992 | 15 | #4,031 | 7.5 |
| 1991 | 10 | #5,373 | 4.9 |
| 1990 | 19 | #3,259 | 9.3 |
| 1989 | 16 | #3,553 | 8.0 |
| 1988 | 10 | #4,657 | 5.2 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,454 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 13 | #3,583 | 7.1 |
| 1985 | 11 | #3,949 | 6.0 |
| 1984 | 5 | #6,986 | 2.8 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,282 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,468 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 11 | #3,768 | 6.1 |
| 1980 | 7 | #5,311 | 3.9 |
| 1979 | 7 | #5,179 | 4.1 |
| 1978 | 6 | #5,538 | 3.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,603 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 9 | #3,906 | 5.7 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,011 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,034 | 3.8 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,611 | 3.2 |
| 1963 | 6 | #3,898 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikhael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikhael has been given almost only to boys: 8 girls in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mikhael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikhael, and how old are they?
1,150 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,171 Americans ever recorded as Mikhael. The median Mikhael alive today is 12 years old; half are between 6 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,112 people named Mikhael (71 women and girls, 1,041 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 874 born in the U.S. The Census count is 27% above 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 5 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 46 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 193 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 296 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 606 |
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 Mikhael born?
The states with the most babies named Mikhael are California, Florida and New York, with 79% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 7 | #2,132 | 0.7× |
| Florida | 6 | #1,775 | 1.1× |
| New York | 6 | #1,685 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,828 | 0.7× |
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 Mikhael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mikhael?
Mikhael is a less common spelling of Mikael: SSA has recorded 1,171 Mikhael and 6,239 Mikael since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,198 babies since 1880, Mikhael is the eighth most given (3.5% of them). In 2025 it was given to 48 of their 483 babies (9.9%), 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 Mikhael
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 Mikhael and names like it
- Compare Mikhael and MikaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMikhael peaked in 2020.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikhael since 1910.
- The top names of 2020The year the most babies were named Mikhael.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mikhael alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.