Mychal
Mychal was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,288 among boys’ names; 2,272 Americans have been recorded with it since 1978 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,180 Americans named Mychal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 28 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mychal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mychal?
#13,288 among boys’ names, 2025
Mychal fell from #5,656 in 2015 to #13,288 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 2.9 per million.
225 babies in 1988, the peak
Mychal peaked in 1988, when 225 babies were given it (203 boys, #665 among boys’ names). The 5 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 5 | #13,288 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 5 | #13,538 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 5 | #13,715 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 8 | #9,407 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 8 | #9,283 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 7 | #10,469 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 17 | #5,468 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 13 | #6,550 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 13 | #6,594 | |
| 2015 | under 5 | 16 | #5,656 |
Every recorded year (47)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | under 5 | 23 | #4,348 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 19 | #4,915 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 19 | #4,974 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 16 | #5,589 | |
| 2010 | under 5 | 18 | #5,173 | |
| 2009 | under 5 | 22 | #4,539 | |
| 2008 | 5 | #19,559 | 30 | #3,617 |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,524 | 33 | #3,356 |
| 2006 | under 5 | 17 | #5,233 | |
| 2005 | under 5 | 16 | #5,195 | |
| 2004 | under 5 | 16 | #5,175 | |
| 2003 | 6 | #15,167 | 21 | #4,062 |
| 2002 | 8 | #11,837 | 58 | #1,930 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,024 | 43 | #2,327 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,710 | 14 | #5,227 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,072 | 20 | #3,787 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,389 | 25 | #3,155 |
| 1997 | 12 | #7,592 | 25 | #3,031 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,227 | 37 | #2,236 |
| 1995 | 13 | #6,904 | 39 | #2,123 |
| 1994 | 8 | #10,209 | 41 | #2,027 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,235 | 51 | #1,710 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,365 | 74 | #1,311 |
| 1991 | 13 | #6,850 | 112 | #1,015 |
| 1990 | 15 | #6,029 | 153 | #822 |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,465 | 176 | #744 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,115 | 203 | #665 |
| 1987 | 19 | #4,417 | 143 | #771 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,149 | 52 | #1,375 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,841 | 78 | #1,045 |
| 1984 | 20 | #3,941 | 65 | #1,128 |
| 1983 | 18 | #4,222 | 50 | #1,323 |
| 1982 | 10 | #6,693 | 52 | #1,302 |
| 1981 | 6 | #9,934 | 29 | #1,930 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,747 | 26 | #2,096 |
| 1979 | under 5 | 35 | #1,657 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 59 | #1,164 |
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 Mychal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,272 Americans recorded as Mychal, 12% are girls and 88% 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 Mychal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mychal, and how old are they?
2,180 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,272 Americans ever recorded as Mychal. The median Mychal alive today is 36 years old; half are between 28 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 1,897 people named Mychal (261 women and girls, 1,636 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,177 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 117 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,470 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 454 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 138 |
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 Mychal born?
The states with the most babies named Mychal are California, Oregon and Texas, with 62% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Oregon is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 302 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Oregon | 92 | not ranked | 3.4× |
| Texas | 75 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Ohio | 49 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| New York | 27 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Michigan | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Illinois | 22 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Minnesota | 22 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| North Carolina | 20 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Mychal with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,624,988 babies since 1880, Mychal is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 8,279 babies (<1%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Mychal
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 Mychal and names like it
- Compare Mychal and MichaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMychal peaked in 1988.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mychal since 1910.
- The top names of 1988The year the most babies were named Mychal.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mychal alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.