Mychael — boys' name

What the Data Says About Mychael

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,341 babies named Mychael between 1972 and 2023, spanning 52 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mychael currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1989, when 83 babies received it in a single year. Mychael is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 242 additional births since 1982.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mychael performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 391 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mychael shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 151 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Michigan. In total, SSA state-level files list Mychael in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mychael 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 1,341 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.