Missael
Missael was given to 16 boys in 2025, #5,762 among boys’ names; 544 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Missael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Missael?
#5,762 among boys’ names, 2025
Missael fell from #5,653 in 2015 to #5,762 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 8.3 to 9.4 per million.
36 babies in 1996, the peak
Missael peaked in 1996, when 36 boys were given it, #2,280 among boys’ names. The 16 births of 2025 are 44% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,762 | 9.4 |
| 2024 | 14 | #6,367 | 8.1 |
| 2023 | 20 | #4,997 | 11.7 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,367 | 8.0 |
| 2021 | 14 | #6,224 | 8.0 |
| 2020 | 14 | #6,183 | 8.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #11,677 | 3.3 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,462 | 9.4 |
| 2017 | 7 | #10,419 | 3.8 |
| 2016 | 12 | #7,003 | 6.3 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,653 | 8.3 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,188 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 18 | #5,104 | 9.5 |
| 2012 | 9 | #8,638 | 4.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,895 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 14 | #6,263 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,316 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 16 | #5,677 | 7.8 |
| 2007 | 12 | #6,939 | 5.8 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,799 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 16 | #5,192 | 8.0 |
| 2004 | 19 | #4,537 | 9.6 |
| 2003 | 15 | #5,186 | 7.6 |
| 2002 | 23 | #3,736 | 11.8 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,473 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 21 | #3,866 | 10.7 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,541 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 16 | #4,334 | 8.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,602 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 36 | #2,280 | 19.0 |
| 1995 | 19 | #3,512 | 10.0 |
| 1994 | 13 | #4,708 | 6.7 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,334 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,762 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 7 | #7,022 | 3.5 |
| 1987 | 5 | #7,743 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #7,450 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Missael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Missael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Missael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Missael, and how old are they?
An estimated 534 Americans named Missael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 11 and 27. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 660 people named Missael (7 women and girls, 653 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 449 born in the U.S. The Census count is 47% 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.
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 Missael born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 5 | #2,833 | 0.8× |
Where Missael is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Missael is most over-represented in California: since 1986 it was given 1.6 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 Missael 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 Missael?
Missael is a less common spelling of Misael: SSA has recorded 544 Missael and 10,411 Misael since 1880.
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 10,955 babies since 1880, Missael is the second most given (5.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 16 of their 375 babies (4.3%), again the second 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 Missael
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 Missael and names like it
- Compare Missael and MisaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMissael peaked in 1996.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Missael since 1910.
- The top names of 1996The year the most babies were named Missael.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Missael alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.