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Mishael

Mishael reached its high-water mark in 2021 at number 4,936, and has been recorded 647 times in all. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 5,608th. About 630 Mishaels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 5 10 15 20 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mishael boys named Mishael

By the numbers

Total US births
647
Estimated living today
630
Median age today
22
Peak year
2021
Best rank
4,936th
Rank in 2025
5,608th
First recorded
1969
Girls / boys
187 / 460

How old the living Mishaels are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 8 16 24 32 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 647 babies given the name since 1969, about 630 are alive — 98 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 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 Mishael is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2021

The most popular boys’ names the year Mishael peaked:

All the names of 2021

Mishael elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Mishael 35 3,362nd

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.

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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.