Meaning not yet researched.
Mykel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 70 in 2025. Its best rank was #872 in 1990.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #872 in 1990; #2,101 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mykel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#2,101 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1990, at #872.
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Mykel: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 70 boys in 2025. Peak: #872 in 1990 · most boys in one year: 139 (1990).
In 2025, 70 US boys were named Mykel, making it the 2,101st most common boys’ name of the year, up 125 places from #2,226 in 2024. That is 5 more than the 65 boys named Mykel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #872, reached in 1990. That year also had the most boys given the name: 139. For comparison, it was #2,182 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Fewer than five US girls were named Mykel in 2025, so it does not appear in that year’s SSA list for girls. Its best rank for girls was #3,270, reached in 1991. The most girls given the name in a single year was 36, in 1997. For comparison, it was #14,034 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mykel in 51 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1975 with 6 babies. In all, 4,157 US babies have been given the name, 17% of them girls and 83% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,247 babies named Mykel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 704 US boys were named Mykel; the busiest of those years was 2022, with 89. In 2025 that was about 1 in 24,401 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mykel ranked highest in Georgia in 2025, at #899 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikel (12,554 babies since 1880), Mikael (6,239 babies since 1880), Mikal (3,925 babies since 1880) and Mickel (2,009 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mykale, Mycal and Mykelle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Mykale (164), Mycal (141), Mykelle (114), Mycol (5).
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 Mykel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 47 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #899 | — |
| Florida | 5 | #2,012 | #1,477 |
| Texas | 7 | #2,224 | — |
| California | 6 | #2,383 | #2,459 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 70 | #2,101 |
| 2024 | — | — | 65 | #2,226 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,049 | 87 | #1,843 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,773 | 89 | #1,822 |
| 2021 | — | — | 84 | #1,849 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,782 | 80 | #1,864 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,092 | 64 | #2,206 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,090 | 58 | #2,319 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,364 | 48 | #2,620 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,038 | 59 | #2,271 |
| 2015 | 7 | #14,034 | 63 | #2,182 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,730 | 81 | #1,838 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,042 | 78 | #1,844 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,504 | 96 | #1,623 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,940 | 98 | #1,585 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,591 | 97 | #1,622 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,989 | 106 | #1,554 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,306 | 120 | #1,411 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,867 | 118 | #1,396 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,397 | 104 | #1,476 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,068 | 124 | #1,265 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,006 | 116 | #1,289 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,734 | 96 | #1,398 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,056 | 91 | #1,429 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,651 | 97 | #1,343 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,100 | 81 | #1,503 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,047 | 82 | #1,428 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,205 | 77 | #1,463 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,281 | 70 | #1,504 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,797 | 69 | #1,474 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,644 | 64 | #1,504 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,338 | 58 | #1,594 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,607 | 70 | #1,392 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,182 | 67 | #1,390 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,270 | 94 | #1,136 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,213 | 139 | #872 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,613 | 59 | #1,428 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,231 | 65 | #1,280 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,511 | 69 | #1,159 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,369 | 40 | #1,635 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,569 | 57 | #1,274 |
| 1984 | — | — | 25 | #2,139 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,797 | 13 | #3,364 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,864 | 18 | #2,667 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,176 | 10 | #4,053 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,615 | 11 | #3,765 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,333 | 6 | #5,826 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,325 | 6 | #5,551 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,322 | 5 | #6,527 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,841 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,680 | — | — |
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).