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Mikaele

Gender
Boy
Say it
mee-kah-EH-leh
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#12,003 for boys

Mikaele is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 12,003rd for boys in the US (5 babies).

What does Mikaele mean?

Hebrew: Samoan form of Michael

“who is like God?”

The Samoan form of Michael.

Is Mikaele a girl's or a boy's name?

Mikaele is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mikaele in the US?

Rank in 2025
12,003rd among boys
Babies in 2025
5 about 1 in 340,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 5 boys in the US were named Mikaele, making it the 12,003rd most popular name for boys. Its busiest year was 2000, with 9 boys. It first appears in the records in 1986.

Half of all the boys named Mikaele in the US since 1880 were born between 1999 and 2018, the years shaded on the chart below.

1986Busiest: 9 in 20002025
Mikaele in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20255#12,003
20240–
20235#12,232
20229#8,293
20216#10,794
20200–
20199#8,209
20189#8,150
20176#10,770
20160–
20150–
20145#12,102
20136#10,722
20120–
20110–
20107#9,686
20097#9,859
20085#12,546
20075#12,361
20060–
20055#11,464
20046#9,941
20030–
20027#8,449
20016#9,236
20009#6,832
19995#9,905
19985#9,623
19977#7,275
19967#7,129
19950–
19940–
19935#8,693
19920–
19916#7,263
19900–
19890–
19880–
19870–
19866#5,920

Names like Mikaele

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Sources

Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mikaele: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mikaele, updated 20 October 2026.