Baby name
Mickael
/mee · kah · EL/
Meaning
“Who is like God”
French phonetic spelling of Michael, influenced by the English pronunciation; common in France as an alternative to the standard Michel.
How it ages.
Very 1980s-90s French; the phonetic English-style spelling dates it to that era.
The cultural moment.
Peak use in France in the 1980s-90s; now feels generationally dated.