Misael

What Misael means

Meaning not yet sourced. Wiktionary has no word-by-word meaning for Misael yet, and we don’t write our own.

Editor’s note 359 US babies in 2025, but under 3 in England & Wales Worked out from the official US and England & Wales counts, not a meaning.

How popular is Misael?

US: Rising: up from #873 in 2015.

Biggest US share so far: 2024, when 364 boys got the name (#722 that year). First in the US records in 1955.

How common

• About 1 in 4,758 baby boys in the US in 2025

“1 in N” divides by all listed births for that sex. The US list leaves out names given to fewer than 5 babies, and the UK lists leave out names given to 2 or fewer, so the real figure is a little rarer than shown.

Where in the US

Most popular in NM (1.08 per 1,000 boys), AZ (0.61 per 1,000 boys), ID (0.58 per 1,000 boys) in 2025.

SSA state data, 2025. Share of all listed boys born in each state.

US vs UK

Misael is #733 in the US. It is not in the England & Wales list for 2025.

Same sex as this page (boys). SSA (US), ONS (England and Wales), NRS (Scotland).

Boy or girl?

In 2025, 99.9+% of US babies named Misael were boys.

Counts below the publishing threshold (US 5, UK 3) are not included.

Other spellings

Other spellings parents chose in 2025

• Mizael20 US
• Missael16 US

Names that sound the same and differ by a letter or two, with baby counts for the same sex. US and E&W counts.

If you like Misael

Boys

• Uriel#445“God is my light”^*
• Isaias#426Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #426 vs #3,256 in 2025
• Malachi#134“my messenger”^*
• Elisha#788Editor’s note Used for both: 85% of US babies named Elisha in 2025 were boys
• Zion#142Editor’s note Up from #227 in 2015 to #142 in 2025 in the US. About 1 in 680 US boys in the 2025 records
• Joan#984“God is gracious”^*

For a sister

• Maya#62Editor’s note Steady in the US: #68 in 2015 and #62 in 2025. About 1 in 430 US girls in the 2025 records
• Sarai#424“master, chief”^*
• Azariah#630“Yah Has Helped”^*
• Mariana#260Editor’s note More popular in the US than England & Wales: #260 vs #1,512 in 2025
• Isabella#7Form of Isabel, meaning “my God is an oath”^*
• Keziah#766Variant of Kezia, meaning “cassia tree”^*

Picked from the US top 1,000 in 2025: names Wiktionary also files under Hebrew, whose US popularity since 1990 rose and fell most like Misael’s. Rank is US 2025.