Mykell
Mykell was given to 12 boys in 2025, #7,060 among boys’ names; 1,068 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,050 Americans named Mykell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 13 and 26.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykell?
#7,060 among boys’ names, 2025
Mykell fell from #4,497 in 2015 to #7,060 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 11.5 to 7.0 per million.
56 babies in 2004, the peak
Mykell peaked in 2004, when 56 babies were given it (41 boys, #2,623 among boys’ names). The 12 births of 2025 are 21% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 12 | #7,060 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 19 | #5,190 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 18 | #5,397 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 23 | #4,530 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 30 | #3,708 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 24 | #4,231 | |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,245 | 19 | #5,093 |
| 2018 | under 5 | 20 | #4,864 | |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,638 | 20 | #4,875 |
| 2016 | under 5 | 17 | #5,470 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 22 | #4,497 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 26 | #3,977 | |
| 2013 | under 5 | 23 | #4,271 | |
| 2012 | under 5 | 33 | #3,337 | |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,359 | 27 | #3,859 |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,996 | 39 | #2,992 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,303 | 38 | #3,085 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,569 | 33 | #3,399 |
| 2007 | 12 | #9,980 | 33 | #3,357 |
| 2006 | 14 | #8,573 | 42 | #2,777 |
| 2005 | 8 | #12,650 | 35 | #2,993 |
| 2004 | 15 | #7,704 | 41 | #2,623 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,196 | 17 | #4,740 |
| 2002 | 6 | #14,845 | 32 | #2,919 |
| 2001 | 13 | #8,048 | 21 | #3,929 |
| 2000 | 11 | #8,969 | 19 | #4,160 |
| 1999 | 18 | #5,825 | 13 | #5,228 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,390 | 16 | #4,337 |
| 1997 | 16 | #6,075 | 14 | #4,605 |
| 1996 | 15 | #6,276 | 9 | #6,334 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,164 | 16 | #3,989 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,884 | 12 | #5,017 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,885 | 6 | #8,350 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,296 | 12 | #4,766 |
| 1991 | under 5 | 5 | #9,152 | |
| 1990 | 8 | #9,852 | 8 | #6,221 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,347 | 5 | #8,813 |
| 1988 | under 5 | 5 | #8,126 | |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,784 | 6 | #6,680 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,565 | 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 Mykell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,068 Americans recorded as Mykell, 24% are girls and 76% boys. In 2025 it went to 12 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 Mykell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykell, and how old are they?
1,050 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,068 Americans ever recorded as Mykell. The median Mykell alive today is 19 years old; half are between 13 and 26.
The 2020 Census counted 805 people named Mykell (252 women and girls, 553 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 937 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 160 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 611 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 281 |
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).
How common is the spelling Mykell?
Mykell is a less common spelling of Mikel: SSA has recorded 1,068 Mykell and 12,554 Mikel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 24,615 babies since 1880, Mykell is the sixth most given (4.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 12 of their 194 babies (6.2%), the third most given that year.
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 Mykell
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 Mykell and names like it
- Compare Mykell and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMykell peaked in 2004.
- Ohio’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykell since 1910.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Mykell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.