Mikael

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Mikael is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Michael.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 43
  • FIFinland1 in 52

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.3M ●

across 12 countries

#9 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
656 ●

65M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MichaelLatin · English●45M records
МихаилCyrillic · Russian●13M records
מיכאלHebrew · Hebrew●444K records
ᲛიხეილGeorgian · Georgian●55K records
ไมเคิลThai · Thai●3.1K records
ΜιχαήλGreek · Greek●155 records
মাইকেলBengali · Bangla●143 records
미카엘Hangul · Korean●27 records
ՄիխայիլArmenian · Armenian●6 records
ମାଇକେଲOdia · Odia●0 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 15 more, Михаил in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Михайло in UA Ukraine and Michał in PL Poland.

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

Meaning & origin●

Michael

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mikael is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#2113,284,4114.2M rec.—#8Михаил244
UA Ukraine#234,587,4624.6M rec.—listedМихайло117
US United States#33,469,43443M rec.1 in 963.5MMichael656
GB United Kingdom#42,842,1172.4M rec.—626Michael373
DE Germany#31,639,8761.5M rec.—6Michael363
AU Australia#21,532,8441.1M rec.—121Michael379
CU Cuba#61,016,44718K rec.——Michael36
CA Canada#2934,497863K rec.—58Michael323
FR France#17820,6151.1M rec.1 in 83821KMickael416
PH Philippines#6816,562582K rec.—listedMichael220
BR Brazil#363715,241△123K rec.1 in 296715KMichael208
PL Poland#9492,326△208K rec.1 in 78492KMichał254

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

Languages●

  • Finnish524K44%
  • Portuguese348K29%
  • French119K10%
  • English70K6%
  • Swedish41K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish523,73144%
Portuguese348,28429%
French119,32210%
English69,5156%
Swedish40,5263%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mikael is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name370K records spelled Mikael10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Sweden, Argentina, United States

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mikaël, Mika-El, Mikaél, Mikäël, Míkael

  • French given name314K records spelled Mikael31 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Sweden, Brazil, Denmark

    Languages: French, English, Swedish

    Also written Mikaël, Mikaêl, Mika'El, Mikaél, Mikaèl

  • Indonesian given name6.1K records spelled Mikael4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Sweden, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mikael, Mikaël

  • Russian given name3.6K records spelled Mikael25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Poland, Ukraine, Sweden

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Микаэл, Микаель, Мікаел, Мікаель, Micael

  • a separate given name3.4K records spelled Mikael11 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ethiopia, Sweden, India

    Also written Mikaël, Mikaë̈l, Mikäel, Mikāel, Mikāél

  • Hindi given name2.7K records spelled Mikael4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, India, Finland

    Also written Mikaël, Mikäel, Mikaél

  • Turkish given name1.1K records spelled Mikael5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Türkiye, Sweden, Finland, Belgium

    Languages: Turkish, Azerbaijani

    Also written Mikaël

61 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.

Other recorded senses●

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.

Over time●

01002003001960198020002020223 · 2023

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Mikael in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1944–2025
Yearrecords
19445
19465
19477
19489
19498
195014
19515
195216
19539
195413
195513
195616
195715
195813
195916
196011
19618
196210
19636
196412
196523
196616
196718
196817
196916
197020
197117
197228
197326
197426
197524
197631
197727
197834
197945
198043
198148
198249
198346
198432
198569
198665
198761
198879
198979
199070
199188
199274
199387
199484
199587
199685
199780
199893
1999104
2000101
200189
200296
200394
2004100
2005100
2006123
2007132
2008132
2009118
2010136
2011133
2012164
2013162
2014150
2015158
2016215
2017193
2018164
2019208
2020186
2021205
2022191
2023223
2024188
2025176

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 81 years between 1944–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1400160018002000Mikael Agricola, b. 1508Mikael Tariverdiev, b. 1931Mikael Håfström, b. 1960Mikael Persbrandt, b. 1963Ari Behn, b. 1972Mikael Åkerfeldt, b. 1974Teemu Tainio, b. 1979Mikael Antonsson, b. 1981Mikael Lustig, b. 1986Käärijä, b. 1993

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●

Attested in 92 sources across 54 countries.

Official registers attesting Mikael
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—133K#15
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—132K#18
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—107K—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202056K—
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202236K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—35K#728
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—20K#1,389
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)202417K#1,223
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—11K#382
DK DenmarkDanmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts)—5.3K#122
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20204.7K#3,917
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20204.3K—

Reference works 4

  • 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)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 793 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mikael?
We estimate roughly 6.3 million people bear Mikael (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Mikael have the most bearers?
Mikael is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled михаил.
How common is Mikael compared with other names?
In Russia, Mikael is the 21st most common given name of 418,751 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 does the name Mikael mean?
Recorded meaning: Michael
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 21st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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