Micheal
Micheal is a boy's name that peaked in 1957, when it was the 85th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 1,401st. About 124,000 Micheals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 55.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Micheal boys named Micheal
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 156,555
- Estimated living today
- 124,000
- Median age today
- 55
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 85th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,401st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 1,836 / 154,719
How old the living Micheals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 156,555 babies given the name since 1880, about 124,000 are alive — 79 in every hundred. Roughly 5,000 of them are children and 37,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1970 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Anglicised form of Irish Mícheál or Scottish Gaelic Mìcheal. Also a spelling variant of Michael, generally considered erroneous.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Micheals
- Micheál Martin (born 1960)Taoiseach (Prime Minister) of Ireland (2020–2022, 2025–present)
- Micheal Ray Richardson (1955–2025)American basketball player and coach
- Micheal Azira (born 1987)Ugandan football player
- Micheal Eric (born 1988)Nigerian basketball player
- Micheal Ward (born 1997)British actor
- Micheal Williams (born 1966)American basketball player
People named Micheal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Micheal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Micheal is most concentrated in Louisiana (1.9×), Mississippi (1.8×), Tennessee (1.6×), Alabama (1.6×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Micheal peaked:
Micheal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Ireland boys | Micheal +3 spellings | 2,359 | 110th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Micheal | 484 | 86th |
| England and Wales boys | Micheal | 427 | 805th |
| New Zealand boys | Micheal | 49 | 99th |
| France boys | Micheal | 35 | 4,423rd |
| Scotland boys | Micheal | 25 | 587th |
| Poland boys | Mícheál | 2 birth registrations | 599th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Micheal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Micheal | 7 | 14 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Micheal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.