Mikael

boys’ nameAt its peak · modern nameCompare

Mikael is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 187 births. Its best rank was 961st, in 2016.

Rank in 2024: —outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024: 1870.01% of boys
Peak year: 2023223 births
Best rank: #961in 2016
Since 1944: 6,061people given the name

Babies named Mikael, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

5,761 boys have been named Mikael in the United States since 1944, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2023, with 223 births.

It has never been more used than now: its record year is 2023, within the last few years of data.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2008, and the 2010s alone account for 29%. It has spent 2 of 145 years in the top 1,000.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 300 girls have also been given it, 4.9% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Mikael
1940s	34
1950s	130
1960s	137
1970s	278
1980s	571
1990s	852
2000s	1,085
2010s	1,683
2020s	991

In 2023, its biggest year

Mikael was the 989th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2023 were Liam, Noah, Oliver, James and Elijah. See all of 2023.

Names that rose and fell with Mikael

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.