Unisex name · since 1986
Mikale
Mikale has 374 recorded births since 1986 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2002 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 374
- total births
- 1986–2025
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 44%
- born in that decade
Mikale is not among the current top-ranked boys names; 374 have been recorded since 1986.
Mikale has 374 recorded births among boys since 1986, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used boys names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1986 to 2025.
- 374 total births
- 1986–2025 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 44% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mikale's 374 recorded births place it above 79% of the 45,481 boys names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mikale's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mikale splits its recorded history at 2006: 44% of all births land in the more recent half, 56% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2020 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2002 peak of 26 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mikale popularity over time - boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1986–2025
- Peak year (2002)
- 26
- Annual births at peak, across 40 years of records
Mikale popularity over time - girls
39 total births recorded since 1989 (Mikale as girls' name)
Mikale by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Mikale's strongest decade.
165 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 44% of all-time use.
Mikale births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 6
1980s
6 births
- 1990s
1990s
98 births
- 2000s
2000s
165 births
- 2010s
2010s
88 births
- 2020s 17
2020s
17 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 165 births (44% of all-time use).
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- Mikale's decade-level peak was the 2000s (165 total births); usage has since declined to 17 in the 2020s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1986–2025 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mikale: Baby Name Since 1986 - 374 Births, Peak 2002." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mikale. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mikale draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.