Meaning not yet researched.
Mikael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 176 in 2025. Its best rank was #961 in 2016.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #961 in 2016; #1,175 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,175 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2016, at #961.
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Mikael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 176 boys in 2025. Peak: #961 in 2016 · most boys in one year: 223 (2023).
In 2025, 176 US boys were named Mikael, making it the 1,175th most common boys’ name of the year, down 45 places from #1,130 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 188 boys named Mikael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #961, reached in 2016. The most boys given the name in a single year was 223, in 2023. For comparison, it was #1,181 in 2015 and #2,087 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikael in 81 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1944 with 5 babies. In all, 6,239 US babies have been given the name, 4.8% of them girls and 95% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,715 babies named Mikael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,949 US boys were named Mikael; the busiest of those years was 2023, with 223. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,705 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikael ranked highest in Colorado in 2025, at #733 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Michele (226,063 babies since 1880), Miguel (191,562 babies since 1880) and Michel (14,094 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mihcael, Mikayle and Mykail are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mihcael (75), Mikayle (60), Mykail (59), Mekaal (12), Mikayeel (7), Mekail (6), Mickail (5), Mikayil (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mikael in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 41 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | 7 | #733 | — |
| New York | 17 | #829 | #931 |
| California | 29 | #841 | #981 |
| Illinois | 8 | #990 | — |
| New Jersey | 6 | #996 | #1,063 |
| Texas | 24 | #1,000 | #1,614 |
| Florida | 13 | #1,040 | #1,351 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,056 | — |
| Pennsylvania | 6 | #1,192 | #1,004 |
| Virginia | 5 | #1,203 | #961 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 176 | #1,175 |
| 2024 | — | — | 188 | #1,130 |
| 2023 | 5 | #16,810 | 223 | #990 |
| 2022 | — | — | 191 | #1,116 |
| 2021 | — | — | 205 | #1,047 |
| 2020 | — | — | 186 | #1,075 |
| 2019 | — | — | 208 | #1,006 |
| 2018 | — | — | 164 | #1,172 |
| 2017 | — | — | 193 | #1,045 |
| 2016 | 8 | #12,514 | 215 | #961 |
| 2015 | — | — | 158 | #1,181 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,096 | 150 | #1,222 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,915 | 162 | #1,125 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,247 | 164 | #1,123 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,657 | 133 | #1,293 |
| 2010 | — | — | 136 | #1,280 |
| 2009 | — | — | 118 | #1,430 |
| 2008 | — | — | 132 | #1,323 |
| 2007 | — | — | 132 | #1,309 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,099 | 123 | #1,338 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,803 | 100 | #1,469 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,904 | 100 | #1,424 |
| 2003 | 5 | #17,494 | 94 | #1,416 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,827 | 96 | #1,379 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,698 | 89 | #1,410 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,449 | 101 | #1,287 |
| 1999 | 16 | #6,392 | 104 | #1,221 |
| 1998 | 19 | #5,516 | 93 | #1,294 |
| 1997 | 8 | #10,467 | 80 | #1,382 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,612 | 85 | #1,296 |
| 1995 | 17 | #5,604 | 87 | #1,252 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,200 | 84 | #1,280 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,879 | 87 | #1,212 |
| 1992 | 10 | #8,514 | 74 | #1,315 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,927 | 88 | #1,186 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,368 | 70 | #1,331 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,338 | 79 | #1,213 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,152 | 79 | #1,128 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,619 | 61 | #1,257 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,209 | 65 | #1,184 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,247 | 69 | #1,122 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,546 | 32 | #1,789 |
| 1983 | 9 | #7,090 | 46 | #1,391 |
| 1982 | 8 | #7,946 | 49 | #1,350 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,909 | 48 | #1,368 |
| 1980 | — | — | 43 | #1,461 |
| 1979 | — | — | 45 | #1,404 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,304 | 34 | #1,640 |
| 1977 | — | — | 27 | #1,887 |
| 1976 | 12 | #5,088 | 31 | #1,697 |
| 1975 | — | — | 24 | #1,983 |
| 1974 | 5 | #9,689 | 26 | #1,818 |
| 1973 | — | — | 26 | #1,762 |
| 1972 | 5 | #9,127 | 28 | #1,669 |
| 1971 | — | — | 17 | #2,341 |
| 1970 | — | — | 20 | #2,037 |
| 1969 | — | — | 16 | #2,196 |
| 1968 | — | — | 17 | #2,007 |
| 1967 | — | — | 18 | #1,882 |
| 1966 | — | — | 16 | #2,021 |
| 1965 | — | — | 23 | #1,655 |
| 1964 | — | — | 12 | #2,510 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,898 |
| 1962 | — | — | 10 | #2,789 |
| 1961 | — | — | 8 | #3,278 |
| 1960 | — | — | 11 | #2,637 |
| 1959 | — | — | 16 | #2,080 |
| 1958 | — | — | 13 | #2,334 |
| 1957 | — | — | 15 | #2,162 |
| 1956 | — | — | 16 | #2,065 |
| 1955 | — | — | 13 | #2,281 |
| 1954 | — | — | 13 | #2,280 |
| 1953 | — | — | 9 | #2,843 |
| 1952 | — | — | 16 | #1,988 |
| 1951 | — | — | 5 | #4,076 |
| 1950 | — | — | 14 | #2,087 |
| 1949 | — | — | 8 | #2,940 |
| 1948 | — | — | 9 | #2,729 |
| 1947 | — | — | 7 | #3,269 |
| 1946 | — | — | 5 | #3,852 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,751 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).