Mykale — boys' name
136 babies named Mykale in U.S. Social Security records since 1997, with the highest year being 2000. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
54% of everyone ever named Mykale was born in this single decade.
10 babies were named Mykale in 2000 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mykale
The Social Security Administration has registered 136 babies named Mykale between 1997 and 2017, spanning 21 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mykale currently falls outside the top 1,000 boys' names for 2017. The name reached its historical peak in 2000, when 10 babies received it in a single year. Mykale is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 28 additional births since 1989.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mykale performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 73 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Mykale shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 6 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mykale in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mykale 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 136 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.
Mykale at a glance
Last recorded 2017Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mykale popularity over time — boys
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2017–1997
- Peak year (2000)
- 10
- Annual births at peak — across 21 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2017.
136 total births across 21 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2000 with 10 births in a single year.
Mykale popularity over time — girls
28 total births recorded since 1989 (Mykale as girls' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The girls' variant of Mykale accounts for 17% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mykale by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 2000s
- 73 births that decade — 54% of Mykale's all-time total
Mykale decade highlights
- Peak decade 73 births
- Runner-up 43 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
2000s was Mykale's strongest decade
73 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 54% of all-time use.
Mykale by state
Where Mykale concentrates geographically — total births since 1997
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Ohio | | 6 | 4.4% |
6 of 136 births nationwide.
Top 5 states
- Ohio 4.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 1 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Ohio accounts for 4.4% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1997–2017 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.