Mykel
Mykel was given to 70 boys in 2025, #2,101 among boys’ names; 4,157 Americans have been recorded with it since 1975 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,070 Americans named Mykel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 14 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykel?
#2,101 among boys’ names, 2025
Mykel rose from #2,182 in 2015 to #2,101 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 32.9 to 41.0 per million.
157 babies in 1990, the peak
Mykel peaked in 1990, when 157 babies were given it (139 boys, #868 among boys’ names). The 70 births of 2025 are 45% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 70 | #2,101 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 65 | #2,226 | |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,044 | 87 | #1,843 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,768 | 89 | #1,822 |
| 2021 | under 5 | 84 | #1,848 | |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,777 | 80 | #1,864 |
| 2019 | 8 | #12,087 | 64 | #2,205 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,085 | 58 | #2,318 |
| 2017 | 6 | #15,359 | 48 | #2,619 |
| 2016 | 5 | #18,033 | 59 | #2,271 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 7 | #14,029 | 63 | #2,182 |
| 2014 | 8 | #12,724 | 81 | #1,838 |
| 2013 | 11 | #10,037 | 78 | #1,843 |
| 2012 | 14 | #8,500 | 96 | #1,622 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,935 | 98 | #1,585 |
| 2010 | 14 | #8,587 | 97 | #1,622 |
| 2009 | 19 | #6,986 | 106 | #1,553 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,302 | 120 | #1,411 |
| 2007 | 14 | #8,863 | 118 | #1,396 |
| 2006 | 11 | #10,392 | 104 | #1,476 |
| 2005 | 26 | #5,064 | 124 | #1,264 |
| 2004 | 17 | #7,001 | 116 | #1,287 |
| 2003 | 21 | #5,729 | 96 | #1,396 |
| 2002 | 19 | #6,051 | 91 | #1,426 |
| 2001 | 26 | #4,646 | 97 | #1,339 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,095 | 81 | #1,499 |
| 1999 | 29 | #4,043 | 82 | #1,425 |
| 1998 | 27 | #4,202 | 77 | #1,460 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,278 | 70 | #1,501 |
| 1996 | 29 | #3,792 | 69 | #1,471 |
| 1995 | 30 | #3,639 | 64 | #1,499 |
| 1994 | 24 | #4,333 | 58 | #1,589 |
| 1993 | 17 | #5,601 | 70 | #1,387 |
| 1992 | 25 | #4,176 | 67 | #1,385 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,264 | 94 | #1,130 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,208 | 139 | #868 |
| 1989 | 20 | #4,607 | 59 | #1,423 |
| 1988 | 16 | #5,226 | 65 | #1,276 |
| 1987 | 14 | #5,506 | 69 | #1,158 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,366 | 40 | #1,634 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,567 | 57 | #1,273 |
| 1984 | under 5 | 25 | #2,138 | |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,795 | 13 | #3,363 |
| 1982 | 7 | #8,862 | 18 | #2,666 |
| 1981 | 9 | #7,174 | 10 | #4,051 |
| 1980 | 10 | #6,614 | 11 | #3,764 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,330 | 6 | #5,824 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,323 | 6 | #5,548 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,320 | 5 | #6,525 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,839 | under 5 | |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,678 | under 5 |
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 Mykel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 4,157 Americans recorded as Mykel, 17% are girls and 83% boys. In 2025 it went to 70 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 Mykel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykel, and how old are they?
4,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,157 Americans ever recorded as Mykel. The median Mykel alive today is 22 years old; half are between 14 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 2,999 people named Mykel (620 women and girls, 2,379 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,623 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% 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 | 66 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,870 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 988 |
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 Mykel born?
The states with the most babies named Mykel are Georgia, Texas and California, with 82% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Georgia | 10 | #899 | 0.8× |
| Texas | 7 | #2,224 | 0.5× |
| California | 6 | #2,383 | 0.5× |
| Florida | 5 | #2,012 | 0.7× |
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 Mykel 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 34,863 babies since 1880, Mykel is the third most given (12% of them). In 2025 it was given to 70 of their 389 babies (18%), again the third 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 Mykel
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 Mykel and names like it
- Compare Mykel and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMykel peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykel since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Mykel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.