Mykal — #12631 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mykal

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,164 babies named Mykal between 1972 and 2024, spanning 53 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mykal currently holds the #12631 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 59 babies received it in a single year. Mykal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 332 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mykal performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 412 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mykal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 30 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Ohio. In total, SSA state-level files list Mykal in 10 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mykal 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 1,164 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.