Mikael

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mikael: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mikael: Recorded since 1950, it reached #78 in 1990, and it stood at #157 in 2025.

3registrars recorded it
99times a registrar ranked it
76years from first to last
#78highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mikael's record

Moved 158 places between two consecutive years — its largest recorded change. Names by largest single-year move

Region

Rising

among boys in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#1765
1997	#2337
1998	#2074
2000	#1552
2001	#1949
2002	#1799
2003	#1410
2004	#1498
2005	#1246
2006	#1643
2007	#1079
2008	#1156
2009	#1008
2010	#1144
2011	#1303
2012	#1229
2013	#954
2014	#754
2015	#692
2016	#732
2017	#818
2018	#646
2019	#740
2020	#576
2021	#503
2022	#444
2023	#539
2024	#524

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

RisingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 67 of the 76 years from 1950 to 2025.

In 2024: #219 among boys in Norway, #524 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 3 national registrars across 3 regions, 1950–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1950
First recorded at #365 among boys in Norway in 1950 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1950–2025
Highest recorded position: #78 among boys in Norway, in 1990 (recorded 1950–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #157 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Mikael appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 67 years beginning in 1950, and has registered 3,166 births with the name.

Mikael across 3 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mikael's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#365 (1950)	#78 (1990)	#157 (2025)	67 of 76	3,166 (1950–2025)	96 (1990)
England and Wales · Boys	#1765 (1996)	#444 (2022)	#524 (2024)	28 of 29	897 (1996–2024)	91 (2022)
Republic of Ireland · Boys	#718 (2012)	#584 (2023)	#584 (2023)	4 of 12	14 (2012–2023)	5 (2023)

Mikael by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mikael in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1950s	5	1 of 10	5
1960s	84	10 of 10	8
1970s	221	10 of 10	22
1980s	437	10 of 10	44
1990s	793	10 of 10	79
2000sbusiest	805	10 of 10	81
2010s	592	10 of 10	59
2020s	229	6 of 10	38

Across Norway · Boys, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 81 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1989 and 1990, when recorded births rose by 33, from 63 to 96.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mikael appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1950 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in Norway in 1990.

Mikael's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	male	#524	74	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#539	71	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#444	91	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#503	78	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#576	63	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#740	44	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#646	54	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#818	39	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#732	46	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#692	48	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#754	42	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#954	30	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1229	21	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1303	19	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1144	23	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#1008	26	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#1156	21	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#1079	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#1643	11	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#1246	16	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#1498	11	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#1410	11	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#1799	7	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1949	6	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#2337	4	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	male	#1765	6	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#157	34	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#219	21	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#131	45	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#126	44	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#116	51	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#141	34	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#151	39	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#123	51	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#126	54	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#140	47	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#113	63	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#158	39	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#102	72	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#90	89	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#121	64	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#111	74	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#104	83	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#97	89	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#105	76	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#111	70	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#96	81	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#96	79	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#91	82	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#79	94	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#104	65	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#92	86	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#84	90	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#108	67	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#118	63	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#94	80	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#117	61	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#99	72	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#94	76	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#81	94	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#83	94	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#78	96	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#121	63	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#137	58	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#117	67	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#170	42	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#190	35	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#179	37	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#188	35	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#198	32	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#176	37	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#201	31	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#186	37	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#227	24	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#186	34	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#226	24	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#225	24	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#229	24	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#265	18	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#368	11	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#341	12	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#322	13	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#480	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#325	12	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#434	7	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#316	12	High	Verified
1965	Norway	male	#303	12	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#322	11	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#374	8	High	Verified
1962	Norway	male	#498	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#347	8	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#482	4	High	Verified
1950	Norway	male	#365	5	High	Verified
2023	Republic of Ireland	male	#584	5	High	Verified
2022	Republic of Ireland	male	#779	3	High	Verified
2020	Republic of Ireland	male	#741	3	High	Verified
2012	Republic of Ireland	male	#718	3	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)
Republic of Ireland hub — collected by CSO Ireland

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 3 registrars between 1950 and 2025, ranked in 67 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #78, first reached in 1990.

It held a top-100 place in 14 years, 5 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 96 births, registered in Norway in 1990.

Its record falls into 2 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 9 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1996, and 62 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Mika'il · #1448, 20y
Mikaeel · #416, 25y
Mikaela · #90, 34y
Mikah · #2483, 18y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 3 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Diarmuid · #77, 62y
Daragh · #80, 62y
Adrienne · #74, 63y
Finbarr · #70, 62y

Also first recorded in the 1950s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1950 and 1959.

Kelvin · #78, 66y
Amira · #79, 50y
Daryl · #79, 69y
Grzegorz · #79, 60y

Mikael was ranked #78 in Norway · Boys in 1990. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mikael and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mikael without appearing here.

Mikael moved ahead of

Robyn Compare
In 1999 they stood at #1765 and #1765 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2000 that had become #1552 and #3036.
Anders Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #1519 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1410 and #2857.
Tayla Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #1799 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1410 and #2857.
Kelly Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1949 and #1467 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #1799 and #3225.

Moved ahead of Mikael

Hudson Compare
In 2002 they stood at #1799 and #2005 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2003 that had become #1410 and #1092.
Sebastian Compare
In 1971 they stood at #341 and #347 in Norway · Boys; by 1972 that had become #368 and #226.
Tadhg Compare
In 2022 they stood at #444 and #600 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2023 that had become #539 and #419.
Hunter Compare
In 2004 they stood at #1498 and #1878 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #1246 and #1135.

Moved the opposite way to Mikael

Arild Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 while Arild went from #24 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.
Dag Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 while Dag went from #43 to #426.

Moved the same way as Mikael

Alexander Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 and Alexander from #322 to #81.
Benjamin Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 and Benjamin from #345 to #48.
Colin Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 and Colin from #348 to #119.
Daniel Compare
Between 1950 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikael went from #365 to #157 and Daniel from #274 to #66.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 3 regions, from 1950 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #78 in Norway in 1990. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mikael

Mikael at a glance

What stands out in Mikael's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mikael across 3 official records

Mikael by decade in Norway · Boys

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What stands out in Mikael's record

Mikael across 3 official records

Mikael by decade in Norway · Boys

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