Mickael
Masculine · “Hebrew "who is like God?”
Mickael is overwhelmingly a boys’ name — 1,492 boys against 11 girls since 1880.
The French spelling is Mickaël, and the two dots are an instruction. A diaeresis over a vowel tells a French reader to sound it separately from the one before it — so Mickaël is mi-ka-EL, three syllables, not mi-KEL. English keyboards drop the mark, and with it the instruction.
How old is the name Mickael?
Mickael first appears in US birth records in 1916 — 109 years ago. The typical Mickael alive today was born around 1966, making them about 59 years old. About 1,200 people named Mickael are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mickael most popular?
Mickael peaked in 1955, reaching #1114 nationally. Today it ranks #7194, 6,080 places below that high. See the whole 1955 chart.
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Where it comes from
From mi-ka-el to Mickael
The story of Mickael
French orthography uses the diaeresis to break a digraph: without it, ae and oe and ai would be read as single vowels. Noël is no-EL rather than nurl; naïve is na-EEV rather than nave; Michaël keeps three syllables where Michel has two. The two forms coexist in French, and they are pronounced differently — Michel is mee-SHEL, Mickaël is mee-ka-EL — so the mark is not decoration. American record systems have historically stripped accents entirely, which turns Mickaël into Mickael and leaves an English reader with no way to know how many syllables were meant. The American figures peak in 1955, chiefly with French-Canadian and Louisiana families.
Meaning
Hebrew "who is like God?"
From Hebrew mi-ka-el, a question meaning who is like God, expecting the answer nobody. It is the name of the archangel who leads the heavenly host, and the Latin motto Quis ut Deus that accompanies his images is a direct translation. Mickaël is a French respelling of Michaël with a hard c inserted to guarantee the k sound; the diaeresis is the older and more important mark.
How the name formed
- mi-ka-el
- Michaël
- Mickaël
- Mickael
Related forms: Mickaël · Michel · Miguel · Mikhail
Pronouncing Mickael
mee-ka-EL
Three syllables in French, stress on the last, because the diaeresis separates the a and the e. Americans reading the unaccented spelling usually say MIK-ay-el or simply Michael.
Nicknames for Mickael
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1916
- Most boys named
- 195342 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #1114reached in 1955
- Change vs 2023
- 0.0%11 in 2025, from 11
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Mickael in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Mickaël in French — spelling variant
- Michel in French — same name
- Miguel in Spanish — same name
- Mikhail in Russian — same name
Mickaels among us
people named Mickael are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 155,280 born in 2025 was named Mickael
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mickael
- #7194
- Mickael on the 2025 chart
- #666
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mickael went to 11 boys in 2025, but Mikael, Mikhael and Mikaeel and the rest below are the same name said out loud. Together the 6 spellings went to 272, which makes it the 666th most-given boys’ name of the year — 6,528 places above the chart.
About 1 boy in 6,280 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 155,280 for Mickael itself.
Spellings are grouped by a fixed rule that folds interchangeable English spellings of one sound (ck/k, ph/f, x/ks, a non-initial y for i) and keeps vowels apart, so Sean and Shawn stay separate names. It errs towards splitting: a family here is never larger than the truth. SSA national data, 2025. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Modesto test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mickael's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Modesto climbed just as high around 1908, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Modesto's path sketches the road Mickael is walking now.
Mickael sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Mickael beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mickael in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- The meaning is settled and among the best documented of any name.
- Mick and Mike are immediate short forms in English.
- It signals a French-language heritage clearly.
- The diaeresis is lost on most American forms, and with it the pronunciation.
- It is read as a misspelling of Michael by nearly everyone.
- French and English say the name with different syllable counts.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mickaels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 1,200 people named Mickael are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mickael?
- Mickael is one of 6 recorded spellings. Mikael is the more common one — 176 births in 2025 against 11 for Mickael.
- How popular is the name Mickael in 2025?
- Mickael ranks #7194 among US boy names in 2025, with 11 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mickael?
- About 1 in every 155,280 US boys born in 2025 was named Mickael — 11 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mickael with classmates?
- Mickael will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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