Maykel
#4,336 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Maykel has been given to 304 babies in the U.S. since 2008. In 2025 it ranked #4,336 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2022, with 91 recorded.
Babies named Maykel, 2025
1 in 138,000
Maykel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Maykel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 138,000
- 24 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 71,200
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #4,336
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 95,747 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Maykel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 95,747 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Maykel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Maykels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Maykel was born before 2022 — so the typical Maykel is around 3 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2020s
- 73.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 100.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 304
- People you could plausibly meet
2020s — 73.4% of all recorded uses (223).
Is Maykel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- +57
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +633
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- +4,137
- Places climbed
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 2.67×
- More babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 26.4%
- Peak was 2022 (91)
- Years since peak
- 3
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 73.0% average annual change
Spellings of Maykel
Maykel is not the most common spelling — Manuel is, with 75.5% against Maykel's 0.12%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Maykel is used
Across 2016–2025, Maykel was most concentrated in Maryland — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 83,400 across all states with data. It was least common in California (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Maryland1 in 50,000
- 2New York1 in 50,000
- 3Virginia1 in 50,000
- 4Florida1 in 100,000
- 5North Carolina1 in 100,000
- 6New Jersey1 in 100,000
- 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
- 8Texas1 in 100,000
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings.
Maykel around the world
Where Maykel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- France2013–2023#6,125in 2023
Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.
Maykel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Maykel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Maykel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.