girls:
16 births since 1989
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
9.7k births since 1955
#1194 (74th percentile)
overall:
9.7k births since 1955
#2725 (65th percentile)
The name Misael is the #2,725 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 9,688 recorded births since 1955. This represents the 64.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 64.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,194 (74.0% percentile) for all time with 9,672 births since 1955. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1989.
Misael first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1955 (1955 for boys and 1989 for girls). Birth data for Misael is available in 66 out of the 69 years between 1955 and 2023 (66 years for boys and 3 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 Misael has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Misael reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 39.4% percentile (ranked #531) with 176 births per million. The name was most common in 2023, with 189 births per million (ranked 35.2% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Misael is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #591 (35.2% percentile) with 189 births per million.
For girls, Misael reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #821) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1995, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1997.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Misael".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Misael. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 40.0% confident that Misael is pronounced as mih-SAI-ehl, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-SAYL, at 24.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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