Mykell — #5117 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mykell

The Social Security Administration has registered 798 babies named Mykell between 1987 and 2024, spanning 38 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mykell currently holds the #5117 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2006, when 42 babies received it in a single year. Mykell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 258 additional births since 1984.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mykell performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 311 births during that ten-year window. Across the 5 decades of recorded activity, Mykell shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Ohio, which accounts for 15 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Georgia. In total, SSA state-level files list Mykell in 5 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mykell 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 798 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.