girls:
178 births since 1969
#5538 (3rd percentile)
boys:
436 births since 1977
#4150 (9th percentile)
overall:
614 births since 1969
#7125 (8th percentile)
The name Mishael is the #7,125 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 614 recorded births since 1969. This represents the 7.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,150 (9.4% percentile) for all time with 436 births since 1977. For girls, it ranks #5,538 (3.1% percentile) for all time with 178 births since 1969.
Mishael first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1969 (1969 for girls and 1977 for boys). Birth data for Mishael is available in 47 out of the 55 years between 1969 and 2023 (41 years for boys and 27 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 Mishael has been given predominantly to boys, with 71.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mishael were boys. Interestingly, until around 1985, the name was more popular for girls (67.5% girls from 1969 to 1984), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (76.8% boys from 1985 to 2023).
For boys, Mishael reached its peak popularity in 1996, achieving the 1.7% percentile (ranked #765) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 10 births per million (ranked 1.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2018, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mishael ranks #902 for boys (1.0% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 75.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mishael reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #858) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1976, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mishael".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Mishael. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 33.3% confident that Mishael is pronounced as mih-SHAYL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIH-shay-uhl, at 24.2% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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