Mikael
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Michael
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mikael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- FIFinland1 in 52(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 77
- CZCzechia1 in 43as Michal
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mikael itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #3 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 726 (measured from records)
- 1 in 52 (inferred from the name graph)
3,476,721 named Michael, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Finland
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 3 more, Михаил in RU Russia and Michal in CZ Czechia.
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)
Michael
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mikael 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #2 | 3,476,721as Michael | 1 in 96 | 3.5M | Michael | 726 |
| RU Russia | #22 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | #8 | Михаил | 272 |
| DE Germany | #2 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | listed | Michael | 389 |
| GB United Kingdom | #3 | ≈900,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | 626 | Michael | 482 |
| NG Nigeria | #13 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | — | Michael | 200 |
| CZ Czechia | #3 | 246,648as Michal | 1 in 43 | 247K | Michal | 211 |
| SE Sweden | #61 | 131,707 | 1 in 77 | 132K | Michael | 193 |
| FI Finland | #144 | 106,915 | 1 in 52 | 133K | Mikael | 112 |
| IE Ireland | #3 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 69 | — | Michael | 225 |
3,476,721 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mikael is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Quem é como Deus?; Salonika
as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…
In German, männl. Vom., nordische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Scandinavian form of MICHAEL .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mikael Agricolab. 1508SEFinnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish (ca 1510-1557)
- Mikael Tariverdievb. 1931RUSoviet composer of Armenian descent (1931–1996)
- Mikael Håfströmb. 1960SESwedish screenwriter and film director
- Mikael Persbrandtb. 1963SESwedish actor
- Ari Behnb. 1972NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian author (1972–2019)
- Mikael Åkerfeldtb. 1974SESwedish musician
- Teemu Tainiob. 1979FInot in their usual nameFinnish association football manager (born 1979)
- Mikael Antonssonb. 1981SESwedish footballer
- Mikael Lustigb. 1986SESwedish association football player
- Käärijäb. 1993FInot in their usual nameFinnish rapper, singer and songwriter
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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 94 sources across 54 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 133K | #8 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 132K | #18 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 107K | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 56K | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 4.7K | #3,917 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 315 | #3,917 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 176 | — |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 139 | #2,298 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 113 | — |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 42 | #2,172 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2023 | 5 | — |
Reference works 5
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mikael mean, and where does it come from?
- Michael Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- In which country does Mikael have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 million people named Michael, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mikael most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mikael is densest in Finland — about 1 in 52 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mikael?
- In Sweden, the national register counted 131,707 people named Mikael, about 1 in 77 residents.
- How common is Mikael compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mikael is the 2nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- Is Mikael a male or female name?
- Mikael 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.
- What are other forms of the name Mikael?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages; Mika and Mikko are recorded short or pet forms.
What do you want to know about Mikael?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikaelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mikael” — the 2nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.