Mykael
Mykael was given to 7 boys in 2025, #10,352 among boys’ names; 670 Americans have been recorded with it since 1986 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykael?
#10,352 among boys’ names, 2025
Mykael fell from #5,903 in 2015 to #10,352 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 7.8 to 4.1 per million.
35 babies in 2010, the peak
Mykael peaked in 2010, when 35 babies were given it (30 boys, #3,603 among boys’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 20% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 7 | #10,352 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 13 | #6,702 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 7 | #10,450 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 10 | #8,117 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 10 | #7,967 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 16 | #5,615 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 9 | #8,657 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 6 | #11,710 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 7 | #10,437 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 18 | #5,257 |
Every recorded year (39)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 15 | #5,903 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 11 | #7,381 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,318 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 15 | #5,890 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 22 | #4,455 | |
| 2010 | 5 | #18,977 | 30 | #3,603 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,301 | 25 | #4,128 |
| 2008 | under 5 | 15 | #5,970 | |
| 2007 | 8 | #13,525 | 19 | #4,925 |
| 2006 | 5 | #19,137 | 19 | #4,801 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,824 | 15 | #5,479 |
| 2004 | 7 | #13,751 | 19 | #4,541 |
| 2003 | under 5 | 22 | #3,923 | |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,815 | 16 | #4,839 |
| 2001 | 7 | #13,025 | 21 | #3,928 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,465 | 17 | #4,502 |
| 1999 | 7 | #12,250 | 14 | #4,935 |
| 1998 | under 5 | 18 | #3,956 | |
| 1997 | 11 | #8,158 | 12 | #5,166 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,228 | 5 | #10,038 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,295 | 9 | #6,243 |
| 1994 | 11 | #7,970 | 11 | #5,333 |
| 1993 | 9 | #9,258 | 13 | #4,609 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,816 | 9 | #5,984 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 12 | #4,667 | |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,462 | 12 | #4,579 |
| 1989 | under 5 | 12 | #4,434 | |
| 1988 | under 5 | 8 | #5,552 | |
| 1986 | under 5 | 8 | #5,173 |
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 Mykael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 670 Americans recorded as Mykael, 19% are girls and 81% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 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 Mykael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykael, and how old are they?
An estimated 658 Americans named Mykael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 21 years old and half are between 15 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 541 people named Mykael (148 women and girls, 393 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 10% 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.
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).
How common is the spelling Mykael?
Mykael is a less common spelling of Mikael: SSA has recorded 670 Mykael and 6,239 Mikael since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 31,798 babies since 1880, Mykael is the eighth most given (2.1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 433 babies (1.6%), again the eighth 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 Mykael
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 Mykael and names like it
- Compare Mykael and MikaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMykael peaked in 2010.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykael since 1910.
- The top names of 2010The year the most babies were named Mykael.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykael alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.