Mykal
- Last seen for girls in 2018 at #13,793
- #7,679 for boys in 2025, 10 births
- Given to boys 78.0% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1999 · 55 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,175since 1972
Mykal over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,679 | 10 | |
| 2024 | — | #12,349 | 5 | |
| 2023 | — | #7,289 | 11 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,825 | 8 | |
| 2020 | — | #4,698 | 20 | |
| 2019 | — | #6,777 | 12 | |
| 2018 | #13,793 | 6 | #8,819 | 8 |
| 2017 | — | #7,546 | 10 | |
| 2016 | — | #5,555 | 16 | |
| 2015 | — | #4,295 | 23 | |
| 2014 | #13,069 | 7 | #4,138 | 24 |
| 2013 | — | #5,171 | 17 | |
| 2012 | — | #3,894 | 26 | |
| 2011 | #12,153 | 8 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | — | #4,241 | 23 | |
| 2009 | #17,294 | 5 | #3,919 | 26 |
| 2008 | #15,405 | 6 | #3,165 | 36 |
| 2007 | #9,007 | 13 | #3,893 | 26 |
| 2006 | #9,286 | 12 | #2,979 | 37 |
| 2005 | #14,502 | 6 | #2,567 | 43 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #2,599 | 41 |
| 2003 | #10,425 | 9 | #2,674 | 37 |
| 2002 | #7,045 | 15 | #2,504 | 39 |
| 2001 | #5,822 | 19 | #1,871 | 59 |
| 2000 | #5,937 | 18 | #1,993 | 51 |
| 1999 | #5,896 | 17 | #1,801 | 55 |
| 1998 | #4,492 | 24 | #1,811 | 55 |
| 1997 | #5,228 | 19 | #2,024 | 44 |
| 1996 | #7,130 | 12 | #2,145 | 39 |
| 1995 | #6,257 | 14 | #1,988 | 42 |
| 1994 | #6,319 | 14 | #1,894 | 44 |
| 1993 | #6,622 | 13 | #2,295 | 33 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #2,532 | 28 |
| 1991 | #6,976 | 12 | #2,406 | 29 |
| 1990 | #9,247 | 8 | #1,809 | 43 |
| 1989 | #6,955 | 11 | #2,545 | 25 |
| 1988 | #7,111 | 10 | #2,305 | 26 |
| 1987 | #6,788 | 10 | #4,239 | 10 |
| 1986 | #7,749 | 8 | #4,457 | 9 |
| 1985 | — | #4,333 | 9 | |
| 1984 | — | #5,561 | 6 | |
| 1983 | — | #5,484 | 6 | |
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| 1981 | #8,128 | 7 | #3,858 | 10 |
| 1980 | — | #4,495 | 8 | |
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| 1978 | — | #4,554 | 7 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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First appearance
1972
The first year at least five boys were named Mykal! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mykal is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Mykal in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Mykal
Momentum · boys
Falling
- 4,670 spots since 2024 (#12,349 → #7,679)
- 2,981 spots since 2020 (#4,698 → #7,679)
- 3,384 spots since 2015 (#4,295 → #7,679)
Rise & fade · boys
27 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1999 at #1,801 (55 births)
- Births halved by 2007, 8 yrs later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 32,930
- Highest: 1 in 32,930 boys born in 2001 were named Mykal (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 170,808 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,801 in 1999, was only 1 in 34,912 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 1990s
- 35.1% of all boys named Mykal (412) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1988
- Mostly girls until 1987, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 12 | #4,554 (1978) | #4,770 |
| 1980s | 109 | #2,305 (1988) | #4,142 |
| 1990s | 412 | #1,801 (1999) | #2,071 |
| 2000s | 395 | #1,871 (2001) | #2,816 |
| 2010s | 179 | #3,894 (2012) | #5,510 |
| 2020s | 68 | #4,698 (2020) | #7,831 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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