Mychal — boys' name

What the Data Says About Mychal

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,002 babies named Mychal between 1978 and 2023, spanning 46 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mychal currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2023. The name reached its historical peak in 1988, when 203 babies received it in a single year. Mychal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 265 additional births since 1980.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mychal performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 874 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mychal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 294 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Oregon and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mychal in 21 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mychal 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 2,002 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.