# Mikael (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mikael/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 6,239 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 5,939 / 300 (5% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 964, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 19 | 5,516 |
| 1999 | 16 | 6,392 |
| 2000 | 8 | 11,449 |
| 2001 | 8 | 11,698 |
| 2002 | 8 | 11,827 |
| 2003 | 5 | 17,494 |
| 2004 | 5 | 17,904 |
| 2005 | 6 | 15,803 |
| 2006 | 5 | 19,099 |
| 2011 | 5 | 18,657 |
| 2012 | 6 | 16,247 |
| 2013 | 6 | 15,915 |
| 2014 | 7 | 14,096 |
| 2016 | 8 | 12,514 |
| 2023 | 5 | 16,810 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 133 | 1,293 |
| 2012 | 164 | 1,123 |
| 2013 | 162 | 1,125 |
| 2014 | 150 | 1,222 |
| 2015 | 158 | 1,181 |
| 2016 | 215 | 961 |
| 2017 | 193 | 1,045 |
| 2018 | 164 | 1,172 |
| 2019 | 208 | 1,006 |
| 2020 | 186 | 1,075 |
| 2021 | 205 | 1,047 |
| 2022 | 191 | 1,116 |
| 2023 | 223 | 990 |
| 2024 | 188 | 1,130 |
| 2025 | 176 | 1,175 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 19 | 1,303 |
| 2012 | 21 | 1,229 |
| 2013 | 30 | 954 |
| 2014 | 42 | 754 |
| 2015 | 48 | 692 |
| 2016 | 46 | 732 |
| 2017 | 39 | 818 |
| 2018 | 54 | 646 |
| 2019 | 44 | 740 |
| 2020 | 63 | 576 |
| 2021 | 78 | 503 |
| 2022 | 91 | 444 |
| 2023 | 71 | 539 |
| 2024 | 74 | 524 |
| 2025 | 67 | 578 |

## People named Mikael

- Mikael Agricola, Finnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish (ca 1510-1557)
- Mikaël Silvestre, French footballer (born 1977)
- Toivo Mikael Kivimäki, Finnish politician (1886-1968)
- Mikaël Kingsbury, Canadian freestyle skier
- Mikael Forssell, Finnish footballer
- Mikael Granlund, Finnish ice hockey forward
- Mikael Uhre, Danish association football player
- Mikael Salomon, Danish cinematographer and director
- Mikael Simonsen, Danish rower (1882–1950)
- Mikael Harutyunyan, Armenian general
- Mikael Gabriel, Finnish rapper (born 1990)
- Mikael Soisalo, Finnish association football player

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.