Misael
Misael was given to 359 boys in 2025, #734 among boys’ names; 10,411 Americans have been recorded with it since 1955 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 10,200 Americans named Misael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 9 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Misael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Misael mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Misael is “a male given name from Hebrew.”
Variant of Mishael.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Misael?
#734 among boys’ names, 2025
Misael rose from #878 in 2015 to #734 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 0.13 to 0.21 per 1,000.
385 babies in 2006, the peak
Misael peaked in 2006, when 385 boys were given it, #617 among boys’ names. The 359 births of 2025 are 93% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 359 | #734 | 0.21 |
| 2024 | 364 | #725 | 0.21 |
| 2023 | 346 | #753 | 0.20 |
| 2022 | 318 | #794 | 0.18 |
| 2021 | 294 | #818 | 0.17 |
| 2020 | 284 | #816 | 0.16 |
| 2019 | 276 | #819 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 241 | #901 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 243 | #888 | 0.13 |
| 2016 | 277 | #824 | 0.15 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 254 | #878 | 0.13 |
| 2014 | 296 | #781 | 0.15 |
| 2013 | 272 | #803 | 0.14 |
| 2012 | 276 | #806 | 0.15 |
| 2011 | 283 | #789 | 0.15 |
| 2010 | 290 | #770 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 305 | #751 | 0.15 |
| 2008 | 357 | #679 | 0.17 |
| 2007 | 351 | #678 | 0.17 |
| 2006 | 385 | #617 | 0.19 |
| 2005 | 346 | #633 | 0.17 |
| 2004 | 316 | #651 | 0.16 |
| 2003 | 261 | #714 | 0.13 |
| 2002 | 258 | #697 | 0.13 |
| 2001 | 247 | #712 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 258 | #686 | 0.13 |
| 1999 | 236 | #707 | 0.12 |
| 1998 | 218 | #741 | 0.11 |
| 1997 | 222 | #713 | 0.12 |
| 1996 | 191 | #768 | 0.10 |
| 1995 | 172 | #816 | 0.09 |
| 1994 | 163 | #835 | 0.08 |
| 1993 | 161 | #829 | 0.08 |
| 1992 | 167 | #811 | 0.08 |
| 1991 | 116 | #991 | 0.06 |
| 1990 | 113 | #989 | 0.06 |
| 1989 | 90 | #1,115 | 0.04 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,195 | 0.04 |
| 1987 | 44 | #1,602 | 0.02 |
| 1986 | 74 | #1,090 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 62 | #1,203 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 39 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1983 | 41 | #1,505 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 39 | #1,582 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 39 | #1,568 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 26 | #2,093 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 41 | #1,481 | 0.02 |
| 1978 | 32 | #1,710 | 0.02 |
| 1977 | 25 | #1,984 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 19 | #2,390 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 29 | #1,737 | 0.02 |
| 1974 | 22 | #2,030 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 25 | #1,807 | 0.02 |
| 1972 | 21 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1971 | 19 | #2,181 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 16 | #2,372 | 0.01 |
| 1969 | 13 | #2,509 | 0.01 |
| 1968 | 8 | #3,279 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 14 | #2,221 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,301 | 0.01 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,921 | under 0.01 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,502 | under 0.01 |
| 1963 | 9 | #2,991 | under 0.01 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,449 | under 0.01 |
| 1959 | 8 | #3,196 | under 0.01 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,475 | under 0.01 |
| 1957 | 6 | #3,836 | under 0.01 |
| 1955 | 5 | #4,211 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Misael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Misael has been given almost only to boys: 16 girls in 68 years of records.
Girls and boys named Misael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Misael, and how old are they?
10,200 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 10,411 Americans ever recorded as Misael. The median Misael alive today is 18 years old; half are between 9 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 13,844 people named Misael (111 women and girls, 13,733 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 8,370 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 35 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 297 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,520 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 4,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 3,800 |
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 Misael born?
The states with the most babies named Misael are Texas, California and Arizona, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025; Arizona is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 87 | #409 | 2.0× |
| California | 76 | #427 | 2.0× |
| Arizona | 20 | #387 | 2.1× |
| Florida | 18 | #836 | 0.9× |
| Illinois | 17 | #562 | 1.1× |
| Georgia | 13 | #745 | 0.7× |
| Massachusetts | 10 | #499 | 0.6× |
| Colorado | 8 | #659 | 1.1× |
| Washington | 8 | #778 | 0.6× |
| Utah | 8 | #541 | 0.3× |
Where Misael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Misael is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1955 it was given 2.1 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 Misael 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 2 names spelled alike, given to 10,955 babies since 1880, Misael is the most given (95% of them). In 2025 it was given to 359 of their 375 babies (96%), again the most given.
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 Misael
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 Misael and names like it
- Compare Misael and MissaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMisael peaked in 2006.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Misael since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Misael: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2006The year the most babies were named Misael.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Misael alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.