Misael is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Misael isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Misael ranks 765. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 2 were named Misael. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Misael.
The name Misael is a form of Mishael, which is a relative of the Michael. Both names share the same origin: the Hebrew name Mikha’el meaning ‘Who is like God?’. Mishael was used in earlier translations of the Old Testament in Greek, Latin, Spanish and English.
Mishael is quite often... used as a girl's name, whereas Misael is almost exclusively a boy's name.
Misael is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Misael cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #583 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2006. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Misael, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their son. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Misael seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Misael was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
317 babies were named Misael in 2022 - that's 1 in 509,230 newborn boys. With this number, the boys' name Misael ranked 737 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
You may not know anyone named Misael, but there’s a good chance you live in the same state as someone with that name. In fact, 30 states are home to men and boys named Misael. (To be fair, a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s entirely possible that there are still a few men and boys named Misael living in one state or another. If your name is Misael and you live outside of the states highlighted on the map, please let us know so we can refine our statistics even further). And while the first name is present in many states, it is still not one of the popular ones. In Arizona, which has the most people named Misael relative to the population, you still have to ask 4,732 men and boys their names before you hear Misael as an answer just once.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With six letters, the name Misael is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Misael and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Misael, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Sun
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Misael
Misael
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
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A
E
L
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
S
A
E
L
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Misael sounds like this:
