Micheal
Micheal is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 142 births. Its best rank was 83rd, in 1956.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 1420.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 19574,830 births
- Best rank
- #83in 1956
- Since 1880
- 156,423people given the name
The story in the numbers
154,587 boys have been named Micheal in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1957, with 4,830 births — 0.22% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 142 births in 2024, against 4,830 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1965, and the 1950s alone account for 26%. It has spent 138 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 9 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,836 girls have also been given it, 1.2% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Micheal | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 142 | |
| 1890s | 119 | |
| 1900s | 218 | |
| 1910s | 1,249 | |
| 1920s | 1,460 | |
| 1930s | 1,403 | |
| 1940s | 10,619 | |
| 1950s | 40,910 | |
| 1960s | 31,978 | |
| 1970s | 23,797 | |
| 1980s | 18,736 | |
| 1990s | 12,871 | |
| 2000s | 7,271 | |
| 2010s | 3,003 | |
| 2020s | 811 |
In 1957, its biggest year
Micheal was the 85th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1957 were Michael, James, David, Robert and John. See all of 1957.
Names that rose and fell with Micheal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Stevenpeak 1956
- Gregorypeak 1962
- Darylpeak 1956
- Michaelpeak 1957
- Jeffrypeak 1956
- Michelpeak 1957
- Mickelpeak 1957
- Randallpeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.