Mishael
- #10,107 for girls in 2025, 9 births
- #5,608 for boys in 2025, 16 births
- Given to boys 71.1% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1996 · 18 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 460since 1977
Mishael over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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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 | #10,107 | 9 | #5,608 | 16 |
| 2024 | — | #8,987 | 8 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #5,445 | 17 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,936 | 19 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,699 | 15 | |
| 2019 | — | #5,813 | 15 | |
| 2018 | — | #10,760 | 6 | |
| 2017 | — | #5,788 | 15 | |
| 2016 | — | #7,157 | 11 | |
| 2015 | #16,419 | 5 | #9,568 | 7 |
| 2014 | — | #6,632 | 12 | |
| 2013 | #16,547 | 5 | #7,537 | 10 |
| 2012 | — | #6,626 | 12 | |
| 2011 | — | #9,600 | 7 | |
| 2010 | — | #7,591 | 10 | |
| 2009 | #15,242 | 6 | #8,310 | 9 |
| 2008 | — | #6,393 | 13 | |
| 2007 | #11,630 | 9 | #8,173 | 9 |
| 2006 | #12,420 | 8 | #6,904 | 11 |
| 2005 | #11,834 | 8 | #5,578 | 14 |
| 2004 | — | #7,536 | 9 | |
| 2003 | #11,325 | 8 | #6,258 | 11 |
| 2002 | #15,432 | 5 | #5,131 | 14 |
| 2001 | #13,521 | 6 | #5,390 | 13 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #5,297 | 13 |
| 1999 | #12,688 | 6 | #4,162 | 17 |
| 1998 | #10,122 | 8 | #8,479 | 6 |
| 1997 | #8,334 | 10 | #5,642 | 10 |
| 1996 | #11,807 | 6 | #3,678 | 18 |
| 1995 | #9,553 | 8 | #7,792 | 6 |
| 1994 | #13,430 | 5 | #4,537 | 13 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | — | #5,660 | 9 | |
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| 1990 | — | #7,178 | 6 | |
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| 1988 | — | #4,162 | 11 | |
| 1987 | — | #6,951 | 5 | |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #5,332 | 7 |
| 1985 | — | #5,785 | 6 | |
| 1984 | #9,144 | 6 | — | |
| 1983 | — | #4,499 | 8 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | — | |
| 1981 | #10,411 | 5 | #4,961 | 7 |
| 1980 | #10,392 | 5 | #6,250 | 5 |
| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
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| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 | #5,123 | 6 |
| 1976 | #6,048 | 9 | — | |
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First appearance
1977
The first year at least five boys were named Mishael! It came in at #5,123, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1978–1980, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mishael is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Mishael in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Mishael
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 3,379 spots since 2024 (#8,987 → #5,608)
- 91 spots since 2020 (#5,699 → #5,608)
- 3,960 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #5,608)
Rise & fade · boys
19 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1977
- Peaked 1996 at #3,678 (18 births)
- Births halved by 1998, 2 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 92,078
- Highest: 1 in 92,078 boys born in 2021 were named Mishael (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 106,755 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #3,678 in 1996, was only 1 in 105,239 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2000s
- 25.2% of all boys named Mishael (116) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2008
- Mostly girls until 2007, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 6 | #5,123 (1977) | #5,123 |
| 1980s | 49 | #4,162 (1988) | #5,420 |
| 1990s | 95 | #3,678 (1996) | #5,832 |
| 2000s | 116 | #5,131 (2002) | #6,497 |
| 2010s | 105 | #5,788 (2017) | #7,707 |
| 2020s | 89 | #4,936 (2021) | #6,149 |
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.
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