Mikaël

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mikaɛl/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mikaël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Sweden than in any other country, where it is the 21st most common given name. Recorded meaning: From the Latin Michāēl, from the Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from the Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikha'él, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 52(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 77
  • DKDenmark1 in 1.1K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Sweden (measured from records)

131,707 people

Sources
329 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 52 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mikael in FI Finland, SE Sweden, US United States and 3 more.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From the Latin Michāēl, from the Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from the Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikha'él, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).

Sources 5

  • DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
  • Dicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
  • Nordic Names

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mikaël counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.

Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.

Where Mikaël is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SE Sweden#21131,7071 in 77132KMikael202
FI Finland#315106,9151 in 52133KMikael75
BR Brazil—35,7271 in 5.9K36K—4
DK Denmark#1105,2571 in 1.1K5.3KMikael168
US United States—4,9931 in 67K4.7KMikael328
NO Norway#3443,1481 in 1.7K11KMikael78
IS Iceland#7316571 in 534657Mikael38

131,707 people counted by Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.

Registers cited: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mikaël is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Sweden, Spain, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mikael, Mika-El, Mikäel, Mikaél, Mikäël

  • a separate name11 spellings in the group

    Also written Mikāél, Mikaë̈l, Mikäel, Mikāel, Mîḵāḗl

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sweden, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Mikael, 'Mikael

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, India, United States, Finland

    Also written Mikael, Mikäel, Mikaél

  • Russian given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Kazakhstan, Sweden

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Polish

    Also written Микаэл, Микаель, Mikael, Мікаел, Мікаель

16 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

1940196019802000Mikaël Chirinian, b. 1953Mikaël Antoine Mouradian, b. 1961Mikaël Ollivier, b. 1968Mikaël Silvestre, b. 1977Mikaël Alhawi, b. 1982Mikaël Brageot, b. 1987Mikaël Bédard, b. 1987Mikaël Kingsbury, b. 1992Mikaël Grenier, b. 1992Mikaël Cantave, b. 1996

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalBonjour Mikaël,Hi Mikaël, (English)

A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 15 sources across 12 countries.

Official registers attesting Mikaël
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—17—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—16#27,676
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201610—
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—4#11,859
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2019——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2018——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2017——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2015——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2014——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2013——
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2012——

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mikaël mean, and where does it come from?
From the Latin Michāēl, from the Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from the Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikha'él, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”). Recorded by DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and Wiktionary and 3 other sources.
Is Mikaël a male or female name?
Mikaël is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Mikaël have the most bearers?
In Sweden, the national register counted about 132 thousand people named Mikaël, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikael.
Where is Mikaël most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mikaël is densest in Finland — about 1 in 52 people — even though Sweden holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Mikaël?
A machine transcription gives /mikaɛl/ (IPA) for French.
How common is the name Mikaël?
In Sweden, the national register counted 131,707 people named Mikaël, about 1 in 77 residents.
How common is Mikaël compared with other names?
In Sweden, Mikaël is the 21st most common given name of 45,482 given names recorded there.

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About this data

measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated

These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mikaël” — the 21st most common given name in Sweden. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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