Mickal
Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mickal has been given to 72 babies in the U.S. since 1952. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1966, with 8 recorded.
Babies named Mickal, 2003
1 in 634,000
Mickal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mickal?
Mickal had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2003, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2003
- 1 in 634,000
- 6 of 3,801,425 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 329,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2003
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 439,159 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mickal sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2003 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 439,159 children born in 2003 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mickal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mickals were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mickal was born before 1971 — so the typical Mickal is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 34.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 43.1%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 72
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 34.7% of all recorded uses (25).
Is Mickal 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1966 (8)
- Years since peak
- 59
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Very steady
- 4.8% average annual change
Spellings of Mickal
Mickal is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 92.3% against Mickal's <0.01%.
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.
Mickal around the world
Where Mickal 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.
- South Australia1951–1951#321in 1951
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mickal by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mickal
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mickal
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.