Mykel — #2218 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mykel

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,371 babies named Mykel between 1977 and 2024, spanning 48 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mykel currently holds the #2218 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1990, when 139 babies received it in a single year. Mykel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 713 additional births since 1975.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mykel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,053 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mykel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 276 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mykel in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mykel 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 3,371 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.