Mikal
Mikal was given to 31 boys in 2025, #3,629 among boys’ names; 3,925 Americans have been recorded with it since 1943 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,710 Americans named Mikal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (95% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 22 and 41.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikal?
#3,629 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikal rose from #3,953 in 2015 to #3,629 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 14.1 to 18.1 per million.
180 babies in 1993, the peak
Mikal peaked in 1993, when 180 babies were given it (158 boys, #841 among boys’ names). The 31 births of 2025 are 17% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 31 | #3,629 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 22 | #4,654 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 31 | #3,685 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 21 | #4,800 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 21 | #4,715 | |
| 2020 | 8 | #11,789 | 29 | #3,697 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,989 | 27 | #3,961 |
| 2018 | 9 | #11,157 | 32 | #3,490 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 28 | #3,853 | |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,603 | 28 | #3,856 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 8 | #12,630 | 27 | #3,953 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,357 | 21 | #4,641 |
| 2013 | 13 | #8,896 | 41 | #2,826 |
| 2012 | 7 | #14,524 | 36 | #3,149 |
| 2011 | 6 | #16,132 | 32 | #3,408 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,940 | 39 | #2,990 |
| 2009 | 8 | #13,281 | 41 | #2,930 |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,507 | 42 | #2,861 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,952 | 65 | #2,105 |
| 2006 | 13 | #9,102 | 75 | #1,835 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,999 | 65 | #1,955 |
| 2004 | 10 | #10,441 | 84 | #1,575 |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,140 | 80 | #1,583 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,162 | 81 | #1,538 |
| 2001 | 14 | #7,599 | 82 | #1,492 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,878 | 85 | #1,454 |
| 1999 | 12 | #8,045 | 120 | #1,109 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,391 | 94 | #1,280 |
| 1997 | 21 | #4,948 | 128 | #1,001 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,970 | 102 | #1,158 |
| 1995 | 22 | #4,626 | 133 | #962 |
| 1994 | 20 | #4,962 | 132 | #958 |
| 1993 | 22 | #4,609 | 158 | #841 |
| 1992 | 13 | #6,908 | 76 | #1,294 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,921 | 59 | #1,489 |
| 1990 | 17 | #5,451 | 69 | #1,341 |
| 1989 | 12 | #6,803 | 43 | #1,780 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,260 | 45 | #1,602 |
| 1987 | 15 | #5,228 | 48 | #1,495 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,431 | 52 | #1,374 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,787 | 42 | #1,561 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,192 | 46 | #1,414 |
| 1983 | under 5 | 51 | #1,306 | |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,641 | 49 | #1,350 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,908 | 49 | #1,354 |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,438 | 54 | #1,267 |
| 1979 | 9 | #7,100 | 61 | #1,164 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,843 | 71 | #1,037 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,566 | 52 | #1,234 |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,902 | 49 | #1,252 |
| 1975 | 33 | #2,443 | 25 | #1,923 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,392 | 25 | #1,871 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 14 | #2,672 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 26 | #1,753 | |
| 1971 | under 5 | 19 | #2,180 | |
| 1970 | 7 | #6,809 | 16 | #2,371 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,244 | 18 | #2,024 |
| 1968 | 5 | #7,784 | 18 | #1,942 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 16 | #2,007 | |
| 1966 | under 5 | 9 | #2,916 | |
| 1965 | 5 | #7,192 | 12 | #2,429 |
| 1964 | under 5 | 13 | #2,379 | |
| 1963 | under 5 | 11 | #2,627 | |
| 1962 | under 5 | 16 | #2,092 | |
| 1961 | under 5 | 13 | #2,386 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 9 | #3,012 | |
| 1959 | under 5 | 13 | #2,374 | |
| 1958 | under 5 | 8 | #3,192 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 14 | #2,250 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 12 | #2,451 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 8 | #3,129 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 16 | #2,011 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 7 | #3,284 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 11 | #2,455 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 5 | #4,022 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 6 | #3,578 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 6 | #3,555 | |
| 1947 | 7 | #4,637 | under 5 | |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,885 | 5 | #3,852 |
| 1945 | 7 | #3,910 | under 5 | |
| 1944 | under 5 | 8 | #2,782 | |
| 1943 | under 5 | 6 | #3,442 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mikal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,925 Americans recorded as Mikal, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 31 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mikal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikal, and how old are they?
3,710 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 95% of the 3,925 Americans ever recorded as Mikal. The median Mikal alive today is 31 years old; half are between 22 and 41.
The 2020 Census counted 3,195 people named Mikal (653 women and girls, 2,542 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,620 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 10 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 129 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 571 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,310 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,280 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 411 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mikal born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 5 | #1,950 | 0.3× |
Where Mikal is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikal is most over-represented in Pennsylvania: since 1943 it was given 1.2 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mikal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 37,514 babies since 1880, Mikal is the fifth most given (10% of them). In 2025 it was given to 31 of their 463 babies (6.7%), again the fifth most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mikal
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mikal and names like it
- Compare Mikal and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMikal peaked in 1993.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikal since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Mikal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mikal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.