Meaning not yet researched.
Mychael: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,167 in 1989.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,167 in 1989; #11,570 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mychael in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,570 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1989, at #1,167.
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Mychael: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,167 in 1989 · most boys in one year: 83 (1989).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Mychael, making it the 11,570th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,167, reached in 1989. That year also had the most boys given the name: 83. For comparison, it was #4,042 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Mychael in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #6,279, reached in 1996. The most girls given the name in a single year was 15, in 2003. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mychael in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 1,590 US babies have been given the name, 15% of them girls and 85% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 478 babies named Mychael.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 108 US boys were named Mychael; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 22. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Michel (14,094 babies since 1880), Michal (7,813 babies since 1880) and Mychal (2,272 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Mychael 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 | — | — | 6 | #11,570 |
| 2023 | — | — | 8 | #9,476 |
| 2022 | — | — | 10 | #8,121 |
| 2021 | — | — | 11 | #7,437 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,780 | 10 | #7,896 |
| 2019 | — | — | 13 | #6,666 |
| 2018 | — | — | 19 | #5,047 |
| 2017 | — | — | 9 | #8,624 |
| 2016 | — | — | 22 | #4,579 |
| 2015 | — | — | 26 | #4,042 |
| 2014 | — | — | 21 | #4,649 |
| 2013 | — | — | 28 | #3,722 |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,939 | 30 | #3,601 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,712 | 33 | #3,347 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,350 | 24 | #4,197 |
| 2009 | — | — | 40 | #2,977 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,914 | 28 | #3,801 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,529 | 41 | #2,907 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,647 | 30 | #3,499 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,037 | 30 | #3,361 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,094 | 28 | #3,427 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,471 | 24 | #3,695 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,021 | 29 | #3,161 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,171 | 33 | #2,846 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,471 | 29 | #3,049 |
| 1999 | — | — | 32 | #2,705 |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,597 | 34 | #2,541 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,563 | 36 | #2,333 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,279 | 27 | #2,807 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,299 | 28 | #2,664 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,447 | 31 | #2,481 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,006 | 47 | #1,816 |
| 1992 | — | — | 41 | #1,971 |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,788 | 54 | #1,585 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,687 | 61 | #1,447 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,352 | 83 | #1,167 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,160 | 66 | #1,268 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,573 | 55 | #1,357 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,434 | 34 | #1,826 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,957 | 39 | #1,636 |
| 1984 | — | — | 19 | #2,595 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,399 | 18 | #2,639 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,678 | 16 | #2,930 |
| 1981 | — | — | 11 | #3,776 |
| 1980 | — | — | 6 | #6,004 |
| 1979 | — | — | 7 | #5,191 |
| 1978 | — | — | 16 | #2,755 |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,510 |
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).