Mikale
Mikale was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,255 among boys’ names; 413 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikale by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikale?
#13,255 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikale fell from #7,379 in 2015 to #13,255 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 5.7 to 2.9 per million.
26 babies in 2002, the peak
Mikale peaked in 2002, when 26 boys were given it, #3,417 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 19% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,255 | 2.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #10,497 | 4.0 |
| 2020 | 5 | #13,398 | 2.9 |
| 2019 | 9 | #8,645 | 5.0 |
| 2018 | 10 | #7,967 | 5.5 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,947 | 5.4 |
| 2015 | 11 | #7,379 | 5.7 |
| 2014 | 9 | #8,564 | 4.7 |
| 2013 | 8 | #9,373 | 4.2 |
| 2012 | 7 | #10,405 | 3.7 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 13 | #6,462 | 6.8 |
| 2010 | 11 | #7,412 | 5.7 |
| 2009 | 14 | #6,313 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #6,644 | 6.4 |
| 2007 | 14 | #6,155 | 6.7 |
| 2006 | 19 | #4,798 | 9.2 |
| 2005 | 21 | #4,281 | 10.5 |
| 2004 | 13 | #6,023 | 6.5 |
| 2003 | 18 | #4,552 | 9.1 |
| 2002 | 26 | #3,417 | 13.4 |
| 2001 | 16 | #4,819 | 8.2 |
| 2000 | 11 | #6,179 | 5.6 |
| 1999 | 11 | #5,912 | 5.7 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,128 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 10 | #5,940 | 5.3 |
| 1996 | 17 | #3,956 | 9.0 |
| 1995 | 12 | #5,004 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,011 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 8 | #6,625 | 4.1 |
| 1992 | 11 | #5,131 | 5.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,451 | 3.3 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikale a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 413 Americans recorded as Mikale, 9% are girls and 91% boys. In 2025 it went to 5 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 Mikale: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikale, and how old are they?
An estimated 405 Americans named Mikale and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 16 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 430 people named Mikale (110 women and girls, 320 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 392 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mikale
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.