Meaning not yet researched.
Mikhail: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 84 in 2025. Its best rank was #956 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #956 in 1990; #1,884 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikhail in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,884 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #956.
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Mikhail: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 84 boys in 2025. Peak: #956 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 143 (2015).
In 2025, 84 US boys were named Mikhail, making it the 1,884th most common boys’ name of the year, up 30 places from #1,914 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 83 boys named Mikhail in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #956, reached in 1990. The most boys given the name in a single year was 143, in 2015. For comparison, it was #1,263 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikhail in 54 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1968 with 5 babies. In all, 4,158 US babies have been given the name, 0.6% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,228 babies named Mikhail.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,044 US boys were named Mikhail; the busiest of those years was 2021, with 132. In 2025 that was about 1 in 20,334 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikhail ranked highest in Massachusetts in 2025, at #862 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikhael (1,171 babies since 1880), Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880) and Michal (7,813 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mykhail 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: Mykhail (27).
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 Mikhail 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 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | 5 | #862 | — |
| Florida | 11 | #1,175 | #715 |
| California | 11 | #1,554 | #1,718 |
| New York | 5 | #1,952 | #882 |
| Texas | 5 | #2,829 | #1,236 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 84 | #1,884 |
| 2024 | — | — | 83 | #1,914 |
| 2023 | — | — | 93 | #1,763 |
| 2022 | — | — | 87 | #1,847 |
| 2021 | — | — | 132 | #1,391 |
| 2020 | — | — | 107 | #1,552 |
| 2019 | — | — | 97 | #1,669 |
| 2018 | — | — | 114 | #1,512 |
| 2017 | — | — | 119 | #1,446 |
| 2016 | — | — | 128 | #1,384 |
| 2015 | — | — | 143 | #1,263 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,367 | 138 | #1,289 |
| 2013 | — | — | 122 | #1,382 |
| 2012 | — | — | 124 | #1,365 |
| 2011 | — | — | 120 | #1,392 |
| 2010 | — | — | 118 | #1,413 |
| 2009 | — | — | 119 | #1,419 |
| 2008 | — | — | 123 | #1,386 |
| 2007 | — | — | 98 | #1,603 |
| 2006 | — | — | 101 | #1,507 |
| 2005 | — | — | 96 | #1,502 |
| 2004 | — | — | 91 | #1,488 |
| 2003 | — | — | 101 | #1,354 |
| 2002 | — | — | 97 | #1,369 |
| 2001 | — | — | 87 | #1,437 |
| 2000 | — | — | 73 | #1,623 |
| 1999 | — | — | 79 | #1,466 |
| 1998 | — | — | 78 | #1,456 |
| 1997 | — | — | 62 | #1,639 |
| 1996 | — | — | 69 | #1,473 |
| 1995 | — | — | 69 | #1,444 |
| 1994 | — | — | 71 | #1,395 |
| 1993 | — | — | 65 | #1,456 |
| 1992 | — | — | 99 | #1,108 |
| 1991 | 7 | #11,071 | 95 | #1,128 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,434 | 119 | #956 |
| 1989 | — | — | 88 | #1,137 |
| 1988 | — | — | 98 | #982 |
| 1987 | — | — | 73 | #1,126 |
| 1986 | — | — | 61 | #1,239 |
| 1985 | — | — | 48 | #1,425 |
| 1984 | — | — | 22 | #2,343 |
| 1983 | — | — | 11 | #3,787 |
| 1982 | — | — | 23 | #2,247 |
| 1981 | — | — | 23 | #2,250 |
| 1980 | — | — | 22 | #2,337 |
| 1979 | — | — | 16 | #2,861 |
| 1978 | 7 | #8,223 | 16 | #2,753 |
| 1977 | — | — | 6 | #5,606 |
| 1976 | — | — | 5 | #6,178 |
| 1974 | — | — | 5 | #5,735 |
| 1973 | — | — | 5 | #5,614 |
| 1971 | — | — | 6 | #4,743 |
| 1968 | — | — | 5 | #4,539 |
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).