girls:
300 births since 1972
#5416 (5th percentile)
boys:
5.6k births since 1944
#1587 (65th percentile)
overall:
5.9k births since 1944
#3541 (54th percentile)
The name Mikael is the #3,541 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 5,872 recorded births since 1944. This represents the 54.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 54.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,587 (65.4% percentile) for all time with 5,572 births since 1944. For girls, it ranks #5,416 (5.2% percentile) for all time with 300 births since 1972.
Mikael first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1944 (1944 for boys and 1972 for girls). Birth data for Mikael is available in 79 out of the 80 years between 1944 and 2023 (79 years for boys and 36 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mikael has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 94.9% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mikael reached its peak popularity in 2023, achieving the 23.7% percentile (ranked #695) with 121 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 121 births per million (ranked 23.7% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2005, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mikael is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #695 (23.7% percentile) with 121 births per million.
For girls, Mikael reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 1.6% percentile (ranked #860) with 10 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mikael ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 29.2% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikael".
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Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Mikael. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.5% confident that Mikael is pronounced as mih-KAYL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KAYL, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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