Mychal

Where Mychal comes from

Mychal hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1955
    Mychal Thompson born
    Bahamian basketball player
  2. 1978
    First appearance
    #1,149 among boys, 59 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1988
    Peak, #662
    203 babies named Mychal — more than any year before or since.
  4. 1992
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,309.
  5. 1994
    Mychal Mulder born
    Canadian basketball player
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mychal Thompson · Bahamian basketball player, born 1955
  • Mychal Mulder · Canadian basketball player, born 1994
  • Mychal Givens · American baseball player, born 1990
  • Mychal Kendricks · American football player, born 1990
  • Mychal Rivera · American football player, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.