Mykal
Mykal was given to 10 boys in 2025, #8,046 among boys’ names; 1,507 Americans have been recorded with it since 1972 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,470 Americans named Mykal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 19 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykal?
#8,046 among boys’ names, 2025
Mykal fell from #4,366 in 2015 to #8,046 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 12.0 to 5.9 per million.
79 babies in 1998, the peak
Mykal peaked in 1998, when 79 babies were given it (55 boys, #1,825 among boys’ names). The 10 births of 2025 are 13% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 10 | #8,046 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 5 | #13,610 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 11 | #7,590 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 14 | #6,374 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 8 | #9,408 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 20 | #4,805 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 12 | #7,041 | |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,084 | 8 | #9,388 |
| 2017 | under 5 | 10 | #7,958 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 16 | #5,701 |
Every recorded year (48)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 23 | #4,366 | |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,119 | 24 | #4,214 |
| 2013 | under 5 | 17 | #5,319 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 26 | #3,970 | |
| 2011 | 8 | #13,001 | 20 | #4,773 |
| 2010 | under 5 | 23 | #4,323 | |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,302 | 26 | #3,996 |
| 2008 | 6 | #16,838 | 36 | #3,200 |
| 2007 | 13 | #9,380 | 26 | #3,968 |
| 2006 | 12 | #9,717 | 37 | #3,012 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,826 | 43 | #2,593 |
| 2004 | 12 | #9,092 | 41 | #2,622 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,029 | 37 | #2,710 |
| 2002 | 15 | #7,324 | 39 | #2,530 |
| 2001 | 19 | #5,999 | 59 | #1,881 |
| 2000 | 18 | #6,140 | 51 | #2,004 |
| 1999 | 17 | #6,110 | 55 | #1,814 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,586 | 55 | #1,825 |
| 1997 | 19 | #5,346 | 44 | #2,048 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,436 | 39 | #2,165 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,502 | 42 | #2,004 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,545 | 44 | #1,911 |
| 1993 | 13 | #6,914 | 33 | #2,324 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,366 | 28 | #2,577 |
| 1991 | 12 | #7,249 | 29 | #2,440 |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,851 | 43 | #1,825 |
| 1989 | 11 | #7,285 | 25 | #2,581 |
| 1988 | 10 | #7,494 | 26 | #2,336 |
| 1987 | 10 | #7,156 | 10 | #4,468 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,237 | 9 | #4,721 |
| 1985 | under 5 | 9 | #4,569 | |
| 1984 | under 5 | 6 | #6,090 | |
| 1983 | under 5 | 6 | #5,988 | |
| 1981 | 7 | #8,716 | 10 | #4,050 |
| 1980 | under 5 | 8 | #4,806 | |
| 1978 | under 5 | 7 | #4,877 | |
| 1975 | 5 | #10,048 | under 5 | |
| 1972 | under 5 | 5 | #5,509 |
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 Mykal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,507 Americans recorded as Mykal, 22% are girls and 78% boys. In 2025 it went to 10 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 Mykal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykal, and how old are they?
1,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,507 Americans ever recorded as Mykal. The median Mykal alive today is 26 years old; half are between 19 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 1,259 people named Mykal (313 women and girls, 946 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,420 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 23 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 471 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 787 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 190 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 33,098 babies since 1880, Mykal is the sixth most given (4.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 10 of their 432 babies (2.3%), the seventh 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.
More about Mykal and names like it
- Compare Mykal and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
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- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykal since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Mykal.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykal alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.