Mikayel
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- mee-kah-YEL
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #5,606 for boys
Mikayel is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 5,606th for boys in the US (16 babies).
What does Mikayel mean?
Hebrew: Armenian form of Michael
“who is like God?”
Michael is the archangel who leads heaven's armies in the Book of Revelation.
Is Mikayel a girl's or a boy's name?
Mikayel is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 16 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mikayel in the UK?
No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2024, with 6 boys.
Mikayel in the UK, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #3,335 |
| 2023 | 5 | #3,712 |
| 2022 | 0 | – |
| 2021 | 0 | – |
| 2020 | 3 | #4,803 |
| 2019 | 0 | – |
| 2018 | 0 | – |
| 2017 | 0 | – |
| 2016 | 0 | – |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 0 | – |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 0 | – |
| 2011 | 0 | – |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 1 | #6,016 |
How popular is Mikayel in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 5,606th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 16 about 1 in 110,000 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, 16 boys in the US were named Mikayel, making it the 5,606th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 7,029th. It first appears in the records in 2007.
2025 had the most boys named Mikayel of any year since it first appeared, in 2007.
Half of all the boys named Mikayel in the US since 1880 were born between 2016 and 2023, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mikayel in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 16 | #5,606 |
| 2024 | 11 | #7,252 |
| 2023 | 14 | #6,215 |
| 2022 | 13 | #6,473 |
| 2021 | 11 | #7,084 |
| 2020 | 11 | #7,029 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,209 |
| 2018 | 11 | #7,132 |
| 2017 | 6 | #10,770 |
| 2016 | 8 | #8,811 |
| 2015 | 0 | – |
| 2014 | 6 | #10,711 |
| 2013 | 0 | – |
| 2012 | 6 | #10,763 |
| 2011 | 8 | #8,760 |
| 2010 | 0 | – |
| 2009 | 0 | – |
| 2008 | 0 | – |
| 2007 | 6 | #10,915 |
Names like Mikayel
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Musa, Muhammad, Eesa, Matteo, Zakariya, Ibrahim, Albie, Ismail, Mustafa, Ilyas, Ayyub, Axel
Names related to Mikayel
Mikaeel, Mikael, Mikail, Mikhail, Mikhael, Mikel, Mika'Il, Maykel, Mikal, Maikel
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and 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, “Mikayel: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mikayel, updated 20 October 2026.