Mychael
Mychael was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,566 among boys’ names; 1,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,540 Americans named Mychael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 19 and 37.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mychael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mychael?
#11,566 among boys’ names, 2025
Mychael fell from #4,040 in 2015 to #11,566 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 13.6 to 3.5 per million.
91 babies in 1989, the peak
Mychael peaked in 1989, when 91 babies were given it (83 boys, #1,163 among boys’ names). The 6 births of 2025 are 7% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 6 | #11,566 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 8 | #9,471 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #8,116 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 11 | #7,432 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,775 | 10 | #7,891 |
| 2019 | under 5 | 13 | #6,661 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 19 | #5,043 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 9 | #8,619 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 22 | #4,578 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 26 | #4,040 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 21 | #4,645 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 28 | #3,720 | |
| 2012 | 9 | #11,933 | 30 | #3,598 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,704 | 33 | #3,346 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,343 | 24 | #4,196 |
| 2009 | under 5 | 40 | #2,976 | |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,908 | 28 | #3,798 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,523 | 41 | #2,905 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,642 | 30 | #3,497 |
| 2005 | 7 | #14,030 | 30 | #3,357 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,089 | 28 | #3,423 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,466 | 24 | #3,690 |
| 2002 | 10 | #10,015 | 29 | #3,157 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,164 | 33 | #2,841 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,463 | 29 | #3,043 |
| 1999 | under 5 | 32 | #2,701 | |
| 1998 | 15 | #6,592 | 34 | #2,538 |
| 1997 | 9 | #9,558 | 36 | #2,330 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,274 | 27 | #2,802 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,294 | 28 | #2,659 |
| 1994 | 12 | #7,441 | 31 | #2,476 |
| 1993 | 5 | #15,000 | 47 | #1,811 |
| 1992 | under 5 | 41 | #1,966 | |
| 1991 | 11 | #7,781 | 54 | #1,579 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,681 | 61 | #1,442 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,346 | 83 | #1,163 |
| 1988 | 9 | #8,155 | 66 | #1,264 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,568 | 55 | #1,355 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,429 | 34 | #1,824 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,954 | 39 | #1,635 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 19 | #2,594 | |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,395 | 18 | #2,638 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,674 | 16 | #2,929 |
| 1981 | under 5 | 11 | #3,774 | |
| 1980 | under 5 | 6 | #6,002 | |
| 1979 | under 5 | 7 | #5,189 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 16 | #2,754 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,508 |
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 Mychael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,590 Americans recorded as Mychael, 15% are girls and 85% boys. In 2025 it went to 6 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 Mychael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mychael, and how old are they?
1,540 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,590 Americans ever recorded as Mychael. The median Mychael alive today is 29 years old; half are between 19 and 37.
The 2020 Census counted 1,334 people named Mychael (237 women and girls, 1,097 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,510 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 31 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 705 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 620 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 187 |
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 Mychael born?
The states with the most babies named Mychael are California, Texas and Michigan, with 88% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
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 Mychael with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mychael?
Mychael is a less common spelling of Michael: SSA has recorded 1,590 Mychael and 4,448,633 Michael since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,468,873 babies since 1880, Mychael is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 8,160 babies (<1%), again the fourth 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 Mychael
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 Mychael and names like it
- Compare Mychael and MichaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMychael peaked in 1989.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mychael since 1910.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Mychael.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mychael alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.