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 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Colorado#680 · 1 in 3,836
- New York#798 · 1 in 4,966
- California#831 · 1 in 6,051
- New Jersey#915 · 1 in 6,628
- Illinois#935 · 1 in 6,194
Best ever in a state: #307 in Minnesota, 1985.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Colorado | #680 | 7 | 1 in 3,836 |
| New York | #798 | 17 | 1 in 4,966 |
| California | #831 | 29 | 1 in 6,051 |
| New Jersey | #915 | 6 | 1 in 6,628 |
| Illinois | #935 | 8 | 1 in 6,194 |
| Texas | #974 | 24 | 1 in 7,294 |
| Georgia | #990 | 8 | 1 in 6,278 |
| Florida | #1,009 | 13 | 1 in 7,349 |
| Virginia | #1,089 | 5 | 1 in 7,451 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,094 | 6 | 1 in 8,710 |
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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 2025
Top boys' names in 2025
More about 2025
boys
1,708,076 boys got a published name in 2025; 1 in 9,705 of them was named Mikael, which outranked 91.6% of the 13,930 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.0% of boys (44.2% in 1880).
- #1,166Denzel177
- #1,166Kilian177
- #1,166Lux177
- #1,169Mikael176
- #1,169Amado176
- #1,169Benaiah176
- #1,169Eythan176
- #1,176Arham175
- #1,176Ash175
- #1,176Deandre175
Tied with 6 names at #1,169; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.