Mikhail
Last seen for girls in 2014 at #16,513 · #1,867 for boys in 2025, 84 births
Given to boys 99.4% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1990 · 119 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 4,134since 1968
Mikhail over time
Rank among boys' names. Mikhail 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 | — | #1,867 | 84 | |
| 2024 | — | #1,902 | 83 | |
| 2023 | — | #1,754 | 93 | |
| 2022 | — | #1,839 | 87 | |
| 2021 | — | #1,383 | 132 | |
| 2020 | — | #1,539 | 107 | |
| 2019 | — | #1,658 | 97 | |
| 2018 | — | #1,506 | 114 | |
| 2017 | — | #1,439 | 119 | |
| 2016 | — | #1,382 | 128 | |
| 2015 | — | #1,259 | 143 | |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #1,285 | 138 |
| 2013 | — | #1,376 | 122 | |
| 2012 | — | #1,359 | 124 | |
| 2011 | — | #1,385 | 120 | |
| 2010 | — | #1,408 | 118 | |
| 2009 | — | #1,413 | 119 | |
| 2008 | — | #1,380 | 123 | |
| 2007 | — | #1,593 | 98 | |
| 2006 | — | #1,501 | 101 | |
| 2005 | — | #1,497 | 96 | |
| 2004 | — | #1,484 | 91 | |
| 2003 | — | #1,348 | 101 | |
| 2002 | — | #1,357 | 97 | |
| 2001 | — | #1,429 | 87 | |
| 2000 | — | #1,609 | 73 | |
| 1999 | — | #1,457 | 79 | |
| 1998 | — | #1,449 | 78 | |
| 1997 | — | #1,628 | 62 | |
| 1996 | — | #1,465 | 69 | |
| 1995 | — | #1,430 | 69 | |
| 1994 | — | #1,383 | 71 | |
| 1993 | — | #1,444 | 65 | |
| 1992 | — | #1,105 | 99 | |
| 1991 | #10,271 | 7 | #1,124 | 95 |
| 1990 | #12,958 | 5 | #949 | 119 |
| 1989 | — | #1,130 | 88 | |
| 1988 | — | #981 | 98 | |
| 1987 | — | #1,123 | 73 | |
| 1986 | — | #1,227 | 61 | |
| 1985 | — | #1,416 | 48 | |
| 1984 | — | #2,292 | 22 | |
| 1983 | — | #3,630 | 11 | |
| 1982 | — | #2,207 | 23 | |
| 1981 | — | #2,204 | 23 | |
| 1980 | — | #2,284 | 22 | |
| 1979 | — | #2,777 | 16 | |
| 1978 | #7,649 | 7 | #2,669 | 16 |
| 1977 | — | #5,123 | 6 | |
| 1976 | — | #5,587 | 5 | |
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| 1974 | — | #5,227 | 5 | |
| 1973 | — | #5,101 | 5 | |
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| 1971 | — | #4,375 | 6 | |
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| 1968 | — | #4,136 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mikhail! It came in at #4,136, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1968–1970, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mikhail is popular in 2002
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Mississippi#483 · 1 in 2,917
- Washington#634 · 1 in 5,589
- Florida#875 · 1 in 8,997
- Georgia#954 · 1 in 9,301
- New York#1,009 · 1 in 11,018
Best ever in a state: #444 in Washington, 1991.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| Mississippi | #483 | 5 | 1 in 2,917 |
| Washington | #634 | 6 | 1 in 5,589 |
| Florida | #875 | 10 | 1 in 8,997 |
| Georgia | #954 | 6 | 1 in 9,301 |
| New York | #1,009 | 10 | 1 in 11,018 |
| California | #1,602 | 8 | 1 in 30,632 |
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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 Mikhail
- 35 spots since 2024 (#1,902 → #1,867)
- 328 spots since 2020 (#1,539 → #1,867)
- 608 spots since 2015 (#1,259 → #1,867)
- Biggest jump: 181 spots in 1990 (#1,130 → #949)
- Biggest drop: 175 spots in 1991 (#949 → #1,124)
- Debuted 1968
- Peaked 1990 at #949 (119 births)
- Not yet halved from its peak
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 1988–1990
- Highest: 1 in 13,254 boys born in 2021 were named Mikhail (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 20,334 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #949 in 1990, was only 1 in 17,261 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 29.6% of all boys named Mikhail (1,223) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,136 (1968) | #4,136 |
| 1970s | 59 | #2,669 (1978) | #4,408 |
| 1980s | 469 | #981 (1988) | #1,849 |
| 1990s | 806 | #949 (1990) | #1,343 |
| 2000s | 986 | #1,348 (2003) | #1,461 |
| 2010s | 1,223 | #1,259 (2015) | #1,406 |
| 2020s | 586 | #1,383 (2021) | #1,714 |
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.
Mikhail in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 20,016 of them was named Mikhail, which outranked 89.1% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,346Milan98
- #1,346Theo98
- #1,346Yisroel98
- #1,357Mikhail97
- #1,357Bryon97
- #1,357Camilo97
- #1,357Chester97
- #1,372Hussein96
- #1,372Isac96
- #1,372Izaak96
Tied with 14 names at #1,357; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.