Meaning not yet researched.
Mikal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 31 in 2025. Its best rank was #843 in 1993.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #843 in 1993; #3,630 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,630 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1993, at #843.
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Mikal: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 31 boys in 2025. Peak: #843 in 1993 · most boys in one year: 158 (1993).
In 2025, 31 US boys were named Mikal, making it the 3,630th most common boys’ name of the year, up 1,028 places from #4,658 in 2024. That is 9 more than the 22 boys named Mikal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #843, reached in 1993. That year also had the most boys given the name: 158. For comparison, it was #3,955 in 2015 and #4,024 in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Mikal in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #2,443, reached in 1975. That year also had the most girls given the name: 33. For comparison, it was #12,635 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikal in 82 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1943 with 6 babies. In all, 3,925 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 1,235 babies named Mikal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 270 US boys were named Mikal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 32. In 2025 that was about 1 in 55,099 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikel (12,554 babies since 1880), Mikael (6,239 babies since 1880), Mykel (4,157 babies since 1880) and Mickel (2,009 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mickale and Micale are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mickale (35), Micale (21).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mikal in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 31 | #3,630 |
| 2024 | — | — | 22 | #4,658 |
| 2023 | — | — | 31 | #3,687 |
| 2022 | — | — | 21 | #4,804 |
| 2021 | — | — | 21 | #4,719 |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,794 | 29 | #3,700 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,994 | 27 | #3,964 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,162 | 32 | #3,494 |
| 2017 | — | — | 28 | #3,857 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,608 | 28 | #3,857 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,635 | 27 | #3,955 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,363 | 21 | #4,645 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,901 | 41 | #2,828 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,531 | 36 | #3,152 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,140 | 32 | #3,409 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,946 | 39 | #2,991 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,287 | 41 | #2,931 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,513 | 42 | #2,862 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,958 | 65 | #2,105 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,106 | 75 | #1,835 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,006 | 65 | #1,959 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,447 | 84 | #1,578 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,147 | 80 | #1,586 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,168 | 81 | #1,541 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,606 | 82 | #1,496 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,886 | 85 | #1,458 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,051 | 120 | #1,111 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,397 | 94 | #1,283 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,952 | 128 | #1,003 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,975 | 102 | #1,160 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,631 | 133 | #965 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,967 | 132 | #961 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,615 | 158 | #843 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,914 | 76 | #1,299 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,928 | 59 | #1,495 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,456 | 69 | #1,346 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,809 | 43 | #1,785 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,265 | 45 | #1,607 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,233 | 48 | #1,497 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,434 | 52 | #1,375 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,789 | 42 | #1,562 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,194 | 46 | #1,415 |
| 1983 | — | — | 51 | #1,307 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,645 | 49 | #1,351 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,910 | 49 | #1,354 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,439 | 54 | #1,267 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,102 | 61 | #1,164 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,843 | 71 | #1,037 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,567 | 52 | #1,234 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,903 | 49 | #1,252 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,443 | 25 | #1,924 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,392 | 25 | #1,871 |
| 1973 | — | — | 14 | #2,674 |
| 1972 | — | — | 26 | #1,753 |
| 1971 | — | — | 19 | #2,181 |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,810 | 16 | #2,372 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,246 | 18 | #2,025 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,786 | 18 | #1,943 |
| 1967 | — | — | 16 | #2,008 |
| 1966 | — | — | 9 | #2,917 |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,193 | 12 | #2,430 |
| 1964 | — | — | 13 | #2,380 |
| 1963 | — | — | 11 | #2,628 |
| 1962 | — | — | 16 | #2,093 |
| 1961 | — | — | 13 | #2,387 |
| 1960 | — | — | 9 | #3,013 |
| 1959 | — | — | 13 | #2,375 |
| 1958 | — | — | 8 | #3,193 |
| 1957 | — | — | 14 | #2,251 |
| 1956 | — | — | 12 | #2,452 |
| 1955 | — | — | 8 | #3,130 |
| 1953 | — | — | 16 | #2,012 |
| 1952 | — | — | 7 | #3,286 |
| 1951 | — | — | 11 | #2,456 |
| 1950 | — | — | 5 | #4,024 |
| 1949 | — | — | 6 | #3,579 |
| 1948 | — | — | 6 | #3,557 |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,639 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,886 | 5 | #3,853 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,912 | — | — |
| 1944 | — | — | 8 | #2,783 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,443 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).