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

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Peak · boys
2016 · 215 births
Debut · boys
5 births
In top 100 · boys
never
of 146 years
Total births · boys
5,939
since 1944

Mikael over time

boys

Rank among boys' names. Mikael has never cracked the top 900 here.

#1#10#100#1,000rank188019001920194019601980200020202006peak #958, 2016boys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#1,169176
2024#1,129188
2023#15,1945#987223
2022#1,113191
2021#1,046205
2020#1,074186
2019#1,004208
2018#1,168164
2017#1,042193
2016#11,7818#958215
2015#1,174158
2014#13,0697#1,218150
2013#14,5826#1,119162
2012#14,9626#1,120164
2011#16,7645#1,285133
2010#1,278136
2009#1,425118
2008#1,319132
2007#1,306132
2006#17,1685#1,330123
2005#14,5026#1,460100
2004#16,0995#1,414100
2003#15,7845#1,41094
2002#11,1088#1,37296
2001#11,0208#1,40089
2000#10,7458#1,282101
1999#6,19116#1,215104
1998#5,36319#1,28893
1997#9,8028#1,37880
1996#8,13210#1,29285
1995#5,43917#1,24487
1994#9,5868#1,27584
1993#7,49811#1,20587
1992#8,06510#1,30974
1991#9,3368#1,18388
1990#11,4096#1,32670
1989#8,7618#1,20579
1988#7,6919#1,12479
1987#6,33511#1,24861
1986#8,5237#1,17465
1985#5,07714#1,11669
1984#10,4225#1,76432
1983#6,7059#1,37546
1982#7,4698#1,34249
1981#9,1106#1,36248
1980#1,44943
1979#1,39045
1978#8,5626#1,61634
1977#1,85827
1976#4,90512#1,67731
1975#1,94824
1974#8,7755#1,79026
1973#1,73626
1972#8,2925#1,64828
1971#2,27917
1970#1,98920
1969#2,13016
1968#1,96217
1967#1,85318
1966#1,96316
1965#1,62523
1964#2,40912
1963#3,6466
1962#2,67310
1961#3,0978
1960#2,53511
1959#2,03316
1958#2,26513
1957#2,09315
1956#2,01516
1955#2,21913
1954#2,20713
1953#2,7099
1952#1,93916
1951#3,7145
1950#2,01914
1949#2,8028
1948#2,6089
1947#3,0967
1946#3,5255
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1944#3,4305
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First appearance
1944

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.

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Momentum · boys
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · boys
72 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1944
  • Peaked 2016 at #958 (215 births)
  • Not yet halved from its peak
Top of the charts · boys
Top 1,000 for 2 yrs
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: 2 yrs · 2016–2023
Share of babies · boys
1 in 7,671
  • 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
Era · boys
The 2010s
  • 28.3% of all boys named Mikael (1,683) were born in this decade
Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1940s34#2,608 (1948)#3,092
1950s130#1,939 (1952)#2,321
1960s137#1,625 (1965)#2,389
1970s278#1,390 (1979)#1,793
1980s571#1,116 (1985)#1,316
1990s852#1,183 (1991)#1,272
2000s1,085#1,282 (2000)#1,372
2010s1,683#958 (2016)#1,137
2020s1,169#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 2006

girls
#17,168
5 births · 1 in 380,242 girls
boys
#1,330
123 births · 1 in 16,710 boys

Top girls' names in 2006

  1. #1Emily21,412
  2. #2Emma19,133
  3. #3Madison18,635
  4. #4Isabella18,231
  5. #5Ava16,941
  6. #6Abigail15,633
  7. #7Olivia15,508
  8. #8Hannah14,556
  9. #9Sophia13,503
  10. #10Samantha12,470
  11. #17,168Mikael5

Top boys' names in 2006

  1. #1Jacob24,871
  2. #2Michael22,653
  3. #3Joshua22,336
  4. #4Ethan20,522
  5. #5Matthew20,339
  6. #6Daniel20,082
  7. #7Andrew19,733
  8. #8Christopher19,688
  9. #9Anthony19,413
  10. #10William18,965
  11. #1,330Mikael123
More about 2006

girls

1,901,209 girls got a published name in 2006; 1 in 380,242 of them was named Mikael, which outranked 14.4% of the 20,064 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mikael
  1. #15,152Zyianna6
  2. #15,152Zykera6
  3. #15,152Zymia6
  4. #17,168Mikael5
  5. #17,168Aadi5
  6. #17,168Aailyah5
  7. #17,168Aalanah5

Tied with 2,896 names at #17,168; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 8,571Bethzy#9,452#881
  2. 1,747Rihanna#2,278#531
  3. 965Yaretzi#1,803#838
  4. 921Betsy#1,668#747
  5. 612Evangeline#1,210#598
Fallers
  1. 2,134Mikalah#806#2,940
  2. 1,275Jolette#954#2,229
  3. 756Karol#818#1,574
  4. 446Litzy#388#834
  5. 305Devon#963#1,268

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

boys

2,055,273 boys got a published name in 2006; 1 in 16,710 of them was named Mikael, which outranked 90.5% of the 14,047 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.1% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).

Ranked beside Mikael
  1. #1,322Jacobi124
  2. #1,322Juanpablo124
  3. #1,322Kentrell124
  4. #1,330Mikael123
  5. #1,330Aleksander123
  6. #1,330Casen123
  7. #1,330Daylan123
  8. #1,339Abdul122
  9. #1,339Aric122
  10. #1,339Ayaan122

Tied with 8 names at #1,330; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 2005
Risers
  1. 792Bode#1,648#856
  2. 790Talen#1,691#901
  3. 677Kingston#1,603#926
  4. 634Imanol#1,619#985
  5. 590Yandel#1,266#676
Fallers
  1. 2,208Baby#945#3,153
  2. 609Kanye#892#1,501
  3. 442Amarion#628#1,070
  4. 308Omarion#420#728
  5. 224Johnpaul#739#963

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 2006