Meaning not yet researched.
Mikhael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 48 in 2025. Its best rank was #2,161 in 2020.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #2,161 in 2020; #2,704 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikhael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,704 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 2020, at #2,161.
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Mikhael: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 48 boys in 2025. Peak: #2,161 in 2020 · most boys in one year: 65 (2020).
In 2025, 48 US boys were named Mikhael, making it the 2,704th most common boys’ name of the year, up 238 places from #2,942 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 43 boys named Mikhael in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,161, reached in 2020. That year also had the most boys given the name: 65. For comparison, it was #2,339 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikhael in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1963 with 6 babies. In all, 1,171 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 391 babies named Mikhael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 498 US boys were named Mikhael; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 65. In 2025 that was about 1 in 35,585 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikhael ranked highest in New York in 2025, at #1,685 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), Mikhail (4,158 babies since 1880), Michel (14,094 babies since 1880) and Michal (7,813 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Mikhael 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 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 6 | #1,685 | #1,757 |
| Florida | 6 | #1,775 | #1,246 |
| California | 7 | #2,132 | #1,831 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,828 | #2,297 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 48 | #2,704 |
| 2024 | — | — | 43 | #2,942 |
| 2023 | — | — | 50 | #2,645 |
| 2022 | — | — | 37 | #3,257 |
| 2021 | — | — | 54 | #2,481 |
| 2020 | — | — | 65 | #2,161 |
| 2019 | — | — | 64 | #2,205 |
| 2018 | — | — | 45 | #2,733 |
| 2017 | — | — | 48 | #2,619 |
| 2016 | — | — | 44 | #2,753 |
| 2015 | — | — | 56 | #2,339 |
| 2014 | — | — | 32 | #3,436 |
| 2013 | — | — | 24 | #4,139 |
| 2012 | — | — | 31 | #3,501 |
| 2011 | — | — | 25 | #4,067 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,468 |
| 2009 | — | — | 18 | #5,243 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,190 |
| 2007 | — | — | 23 | #4,321 |
| 2006 | — | — | 11 | #7,267 |
| 2005 | — | — | 23 | #4,016 |
| 2004 | — | — | 13 | #6,030 |
| 2003 | — | — | 18 | #4,558 |
| 2002 | — | — | 14 | #5,308 |
| 2001 | — | — | 12 | #5,907 |
| 2000 | — | — | 21 | #3,871 |
| 1999 | — | — | 16 | #4,478 |
| 1998 | — | — | 17 | #4,134 |
| 1997 | — | — | 19 | #3,689 |
| 1996 | — | — | 13 | #4,794 |
| 1995 | — | — | 14 | #4,435 |
| 1994 | — | — | 12 | #5,018 |
| 1993 | — | — | 16 | #3,956 |
| 1992 | — | — | 15 | #4,038 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,929 | 10 | #5,380 |
| 1990 | — | — | 19 | #3,265 |
| 1989 | — | — | 16 | #3,559 |
| 1988 | — | — | 10 | #4,662 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,459 |
| 1986 | — | — | 13 | #3,587 |
| 1985 | — | — | 11 | #3,953 |
| 1984 | — | — | 5 | #6,990 |
| 1983 | — | — | 7 | #5,285 |
| 1982 | — | — | 9 | #4,470 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,770 |
| 1980 | — | — | 7 | #5,313 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,181 |
| 1978 | — | — | 6 | #5,541 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,605 |
| 1976 | — | — | 9 | #3,908 |
| 1975 | — | — | 5 | #6,013 |
| 1974 | — | — | 6 | #5,036 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,613 |
| 1963 | — | — | 6 | #3,899 |
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).