Mizael
Masculine · “who is what God is?”
Mizael is the Spanish form of Mishael, and Mishael is a question rather than a statement: who is what God is? In the book of Daniel he is one of three young men who refuse to bow to a statue and walk out of a furnace unburned, better known to English readers by the Babylonian name he was given, Meshach.
How old is the name Mizael?
Mizael first appears in US birth records in 1982 — 43 years ago. The typical Mizael alive today was born around 2009, making them about 16 years old. About 600 people named Mizael are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Mizael most popular?
Mizael peaked in 1992, reaching #3220 nationally. Today it ranks #4857, 1,637 places below that high. See the whole 1992 chart.
Where it comes from
From Mishael to Mizael
The story of Mizael
The book of Daniel gives its four young exiles two sets of names, their Hebrew ones and the Babylonian ones imposed at court, and the story keeps both in view: Mishael becomes Meshach, Hananiah becomes Shadrach. The furnace scene made the three of them a fixture of Christian art and preaching. Spanish took the Hebrew name as Misael and Mizael, and it has been widely given in Mexico, Central America and Brazil, where it is more common than in any English-speaking country.
Meaning
who is what God is?
Hebrew Mishael, generally read as mi, who, sha, that which, and El, God: a rhetorical question of the same kind as Michael, who is like God. The reading has been standard for a very long time.
How the name formed
- Mishael
- Misael
- Mizael
Related forms: מישאל · Misael · Misael · Mishael
Pronouncing Mizael
mee-sah-EL
Three syllables, stress at the end, and the z said as an s in Latin American Spanish. English speakers say MY-zay-el, which is a noticeably different name in the ear.
Nicknames for Mizael
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
- 1982
- Most boys named
- 202127 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #3220reached in 1992
- Change vs 2024
- +66.7%20 in 2025, from 12
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.
Mizael in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- מישאל in Hebrew — transliteration
- Misael in Spanish — spelling variant
- Misael in Portuguese — spelling variant
- Mishael in English — same name
Strongest US states over the last decade: Texas, California.
Mizaels among us
people named Mizael are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 85,404 born in 2025 was named Mizael
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Spellings of Mizael
- #4857
- Mizael on the 2025 chart
- #581
- counting every spelling
The SSA counts spellings, not names. Mizael went to 20 boys in 2025, but Misael is the same name said out loud. Together the 2 spellings went to 379, which makes it the 581st most-given boys’ name of the year — 4,276 places above the chart.
- Misael359
- Mizael20
About 1 boy in 4,507 born in 2025 was given one of these spellings — against 1 in 85,404 for Mizael 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 Caspar test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Mizael's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Caspar climbed just as high around 1917, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Caspar's path sketches the road Mizael is walking now.
Mizael 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
Mizael beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Mizael in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- It carries one of the best-known stories in the Hebrew Bible, and one with a happy ending.
- The meaning is a real question rather than a description, which is unusual and memorable.
- It is widely used across Latin America, so it arrives with a community.
- Misael is the commoner Spanish spelling, so the z will be corrected often.
- The English and Spanish pronunciations differ enough to be two names.
- English readers know the bearer by his Babylonian name, Meshach, so the connection is invisible.
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Frequently asked
- How many Mizaels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 600 people named Mizael are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How do you spell Mizael?
- Mizael is one of 2 recorded spellings. Misael is the more common one — 359 births in 2025 against 20 for Mizael.
- How popular is the name Mizael in 2025?
- Mizael ranks #4857 among US boy names in 2025, with 20 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Mizael?
- About 1 in every 85,404 US boys born in 2025 was named Mizael — 20 in all.
- Will my child share the name Mizael with classmates?
- Mizael will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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