Mikal — #4589 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mikal

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,303 babies named Mikal between 1943 and 2024, spanning 82 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mikal currently holds the #4589 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1993, when 158 babies received it in a single year. Mikal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 591 additional births since 1945.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mikal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 1,071 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Mikal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Pennsylvania, which accounts for 212 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mikal in 20 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mikal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,303 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.