Mikael
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · #1,169 for boys in 2025, 176 births
Given to boys 95.2% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 2016 · 215 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 5,939since 1944
Mikael over time
Rank among boys' names. Mikael has never cracked the top 900 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #1,169 | 176 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,129 | 188 | |
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | #987 | 223 |
| 2022 | — | #1,113 | 191 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,046 | 205 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,074 | 186 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,004 | 208 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,168 | 164 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,042 | 193 | |
| 2016 | #11,781 | 8 | #958 | 215 |
| 2015 | — | #1,174 | 158 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #1,218 | 150 |
| 2013 | #14,582 | 6 | #1,119 | 162 |
| 2012 | #14,962 | 6 | #1,120 | 164 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #1,285 | 133 |
| 2010 | — | #1,278 | 136 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,425 | 118 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,319 | 132 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,306 | 132 | |
| 2006 | #17,168 | 5 | #1,330 | 123 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #1,460 | 100 |
| 2004 | #16,099 | 5 | #1,414 | 100 |
| 2003 | #15,784 | 5 | #1,410 | 94 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,372 | 96 |
| 2001 | #11,020 | 8 | #1,400 | 89 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #1,282 | 101 |
| 1999 | #6,191 | 16 | #1,215 | 104 |
| 1998 | #5,363 | 19 | #1,288 | 93 |
| 1997 | #9,802 | 8 | #1,378 | 80 |
| 1996 | #8,132 | 10 | #1,292 | 85 |
| 1995 | #5,439 | 17 | #1,244 | 87 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #1,275 | 84 |
| 1993 | #7,498 | 11 | #1,205 | 87 |
| 1992 | #8,065 | 10 | #1,309 | 74 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,183 | 88 |
| 1990 | #11,409 | 6 | #1,326 | 70 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #1,205 | 79 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,124 | 79 |
| 1987 | #6,335 | 11 | #1,248 | 61 |
| 1986 | #8,523 | 7 | #1,174 | 65 |
| 1985 | #5,077 | 14 | #1,116 | 69 |
| 1984 | #10,422 | 5 | #1,764 | 32 |
| 1983 | #6,705 | 9 | #1,375 | 46 |
| 1982 | #7,469 | 8 | #1,342 | 49 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #1,362 | 48 |
| 1980 | — | #1,449 | 43 | |
| 1979 | — | #1,390 | 45 | |
| 1978 | #8,562 | 6 | #1,616 | 34 |
| 1977 | — | #1,858 | 27 | |
| 1976 | #4,905 | 12 | #1,677 | 31 |
| 1975 | — | #1,948 | 24 | |
| 1974 | #8,775 | 5 | #1,790 | 26 |
| 1973 | — | #1,736 | 26 | |
| 1972 | #8,292 | 5 | #1,648 | 28 |
| 1971 | — | #2,279 | 17 | |
| 1970 | — | #1,989 | 20 | |
| 1969 | — | #2,130 | 16 | |
| 1968 | — | #1,962 | 17 | |
| 1967 | — | #1,853 | 18 | |
| 1966 | — | #1,963 | 16 | |
| 1965 | — | #1,625 | 23 | |
| 1964 | — | #2,409 | 12 | |
| 1963 | — | #3,646 | 6 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,673 | 10 | |
| 1961 | — | #3,097 | 8 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,535 | 11 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,033 | 16 | |
| 1958 | — | #2,265 | 13 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,093 | 15 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,015 | 16 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,219 | 13 | |
| 1954 | — | #2,207 | 13 | |
| 1953 | — | #2,709 | 9 | |
| 1952 | — | #1,939 | 16 | |
| 1951 | — | #3,714 | 5 | |
| 1950 | — | #2,019 | 14 | |
| 1949 | — | #2,802 | 8 | |
| 1948 | — | #2,608 | 9 | |
| 1947 | — | #3,096 | 7 | |
| 1946 | — | #3,525 | 5 | |
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| 1944 | — | #3,430 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mikael! It came in at #3,430, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1944–1946, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mikael is popular in 1988
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Florida#847 · 1 in 14,078
- Texas#897 · 1 in 14,411
- California#982 · 1 in 18,017
- New York#1,140 · 1 in 21,615
Best ever in a state: #307 in Minnesota, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Florida | #847 | 6 | 1 in 14,078 |
| Texas | #897 | 10 | 1 in 14,411 |
| California | #982 | 14 | 1 in 18,017 |
| New York | #1,140 | 6 | 1 in 21,615 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the boys born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mikael
- 40 spots since 2024 (#1,129 → #1,169)
- 95 spots since 2020 (#1,074 → #1,169)
- 5 spots since 2015 (#1,174 → #1,169)
- Biggest jump: 216 spots in 2016 (#1,174 → #958)
- Biggest drop: 142 spots in 2024 (#987 → #1,129)
- Debuted 1944
- Peaked 2016 at #958 (215 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2016–2023
- Highest: 1 in 7,671 boys born in 2023 were named Mikael (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 9,705 boys born in 2025 (0.01%)
- Its best rank, #958 in 2016, was only 1 in 8,827 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 28.3% of all boys named Mikael (1,683) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 34 | #2,608 (1948) | #3,092 |
| 1950s | 130 | #1,939 (1952) | #2,321 |
| 1960s | 137 | #1,625 (1965) | #2,389 |
| 1970s | 278 | #1,390 (1979) | #1,793 |
| 1980s | 571 | #1,116 (1985) | #1,316 |
| 1990s | 852 | #1,183 (1991) | #1,272 |
| 2000s | 1,085 | #1,282 (2000) | #1,372 |
| 2010s | 1,683 | #958 (2016) | #1,137 |
| 2020s | 1,169 | #987 (2023) | #1,086 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mikael in 1988
Top girls' names in 1988
Top boys' names in 1988
More about 1988
girls
1,780,854 girls got a published name in 1988; 1 in 197,873 of them was named Mikael, which outranked 44.6% of the 13,883 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #7,111Zarina10
- #7,111Zoua10
- #7,111Zoya10
- #7,691Mikael9
- #7,691Abeni9
- #7,691Abiola9
- #7,691Adonica9
- #8,391Aarin8
- #8,391Aarti8
- #8,391Abriel8
Tied with 699 names at #7,691; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,914,283 boys got a published name in 1988; 1 in 24,231 of them was named Mikael, which outranked 86.8% of the 8,495 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 21.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,118Durrell80
- #1,118Giuseppe80
- #1,118Peyton80
- #1,124Mikael79
- #1,124Anibal79
- #1,124Arnulfo79
- #1,124Christofer79
- #1,130Amit78
- #1,130Benjamen78
- #1,130Everardo78
Tied with 5 names at #1,124; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.