Meaning not yet researched.
Mykal: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,817 in 1999.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,817 in 1999; #8,050 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mykal in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,050 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1999, at #1,817.
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Mykal: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,817 in 1999 · most boys in one year: 59 (2001).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Mykal, making it the 8,050th most common boys’ name of the year, up 5,565 places from #13,615 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 5 boys named Mykal in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #1,817, reached in 1999. The most boys given the name in a single year was 59, in 2001. For comparison, it was #4,368 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Mykal in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #4,589, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 24. For comparison, it was unranked (under five girls) in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mykal in 48 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1972 with 5 babies. In all, 1,507 US babies have been given the name, 22% of them girls and 78% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 557 babies named Mykal.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 114 US boys were named Mykal; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 20. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 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 Mikal (3,925 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 Mykal 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 | — | — | 10 | #8,050 |
| 2024 | — | — | 5 | #13,615 |
| 2023 | — | — | 11 | #7,595 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,379 |
| 2021 | — | — | 8 | #9,413 |
| 2020 | — | — | 20 | #4,809 |
| 2019 | — | — | 12 | #7,046 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,089 | 8 | #9,394 |
| 2017 | — | — | 10 | #7,962 |
| 2016 | — | — | 16 | #5,705 |
| 2015 | — | — | 23 | #4,368 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,125 | 24 | #4,217 |
| 2013 | — | — | 17 | #5,323 |
| 2012 | — | — | 26 | #3,973 |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,008 | 20 | #4,775 |
| 2010 | — | — | 23 | #4,324 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,308 | 26 | #3,998 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,844 | 36 | #3,202 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,384 | 26 | #3,970 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,721 | 37 | #3,013 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,833 | 43 | #2,597 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,097 | 41 | #2,626 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,035 | 37 | #2,714 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,330 | 39 | #2,534 |
| 2001 | 19 | #6,004 | 59 | #1,885 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,146 | 51 | #2,008 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,116 | 55 | #1,817 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,589 | 55 | #1,828 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,350 | 44 | #2,051 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,441 | 39 | #2,170 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,507 | 42 | #2,009 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,551 | 44 | #1,916 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,920 | 33 | #2,330 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,372 | 28 | #2,583 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,256 | 29 | #2,446 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,857 | 43 | #1,830 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,291 | 25 | #2,587 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,499 | 26 | #2,341 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,161 | 10 | #4,475 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,241 | 9 | #4,725 |
| 1985 | — | — | 9 | #4,574 |
| 1984 | — | — | 6 | #6,094 |
| 1983 | — | — | 6 | #5,992 |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,718 | 10 | #4,052 |
| 1980 | — | — | 8 | #4,808 |
| 1978 | — | — | 7 | #4,880 |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,050 | — | — |
| 1972 | — | — | 5 | #5,511 |
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).