Meaning not yet researched.
Mychal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 5 in 2025. Its best rank was #665 in 1988.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #665 in 1988; #13,292 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mychal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#13,292 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1988, at #665.
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Mychal: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 5 boys in 2025. Peak: #665 in 1988 · most boys in one year: 203 (1988).
In 2025, 5 US boys were named Mychal, making it the 13,292nd most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #665, reached in 1988. That year also had the most boys given the name: 203. For comparison, it was #5,660 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Mychal in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,942, reached in 1984. The most girls given the name in a single year was 22, in 1988. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mychal in 47 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1978 with 59 babies. In all, 2,272 US babies have been given the name, 12% of them girls and 88% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1980s, with 993 babies named Mychal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 81 US boys were named Mychal; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 17. In 2025 that was about 1 in 341,615 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michal (7,813 babies since 1880), Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Micheal (156,555 babies since 1880) and Michel (14,094 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 Mychal 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 | — | — | 5 | #13,292 |
| 2023 | — | — | 5 | #13,543 |
| 2022 | — | — | 5 | #13,721 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,412 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #9,288 |
| 2019 | — | — | 7 | #10,474 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,472 |
| 2017 | — | — | 13 | #6,554 |
| 2016 | — | — | 13 | #6,599 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,660 |
| 2014 | — | — | 23 | #4,351 |
| 2013 | — | — | 19 | #4,918 |
| 2012 | — | — | 19 | #4,979 |
| 2011 | — | — | 16 | #5,594 |
| 2010 | — | — | 18 | #5,176 |
| 2009 | — | — | 22 | #4,541 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,565 | 30 | #3,620 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,530 | 33 | #3,358 |
| 2006 | — | — | 17 | #5,237 |
| 2005 | — | — | 16 | #5,200 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,180 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,174 | 21 | #4,067 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,843 | 58 | #1,934 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,031 | 43 | #2,331 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,718 | 14 | #5,235 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,081 | 20 | #3,792 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,395 | 25 | #3,159 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,597 | 25 | #3,036 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,232 | 37 | #2,241 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,909 | 39 | #2,128 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,215 | 41 | #2,032 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,241 | 51 | #1,715 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,371 | 74 | #1,316 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,857 | 112 | #1,021 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,035 | 153 | #826 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,471 | 176 | #747 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,120 | 203 | #665 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,420 | 143 | #771 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,154 | 52 | #1,376 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,846 | 78 | #1,046 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,942 | 65 | #1,129 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,223 | 50 | #1,324 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,695 | 52 | #1,303 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,936 | 29 | #1,931 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,748 | 26 | #2,096 |
| 1979 | — | — | 35 | #1,657 |
| 1978 | — | — | 59 | #1,164 |
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).