Given name
Misael
“who is what God is?”
Misael is a masculine given name from Hebrew. It is used in English and Spanish.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Misael goes back to Latin Misael, meaning “who is what God is?”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Latin Misael, from Ancient Greek Μισαέλ, from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1955. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Misael through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 10,411
- 10,395 boys · 16 girls
- Most popular year
- 2006
- 385 babies
- 2025
- 359
- #734 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +27%
- Rising
Where it’s given
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 359 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 734 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 27.3% higher in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 385 in 2006. In 2025, Texas had the largest reported state-level birth count for boys with this name (87). Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 13,844 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Misael’s family of names
In English usage, Misael has a related form in MISHAEL.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 3
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Misael
- Misael Pastrana BorreroColombian lawyer and politician (1923-1997)
- Misael EscutiChilean footballer (1926-2005)
- Misael RodríguezMexican boxerborn 1994
- Misael DávilaChilean footballerborn 1991
- Misael Vacca RamírezColombian catholic archbishopborn 1955
- Misael DomínguezMexican association football playerborn 1999
- MisaelBrazilian Footballerborn 1994
- MisaelBrazilian footballerborn 1987
- Misael Acosta SolísEcuadorian botanist, ecologist, university teacher and conservationist (1910-1994)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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