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Mikal

#3,629 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Who is like God?, through Mikael

Mikal has been given to 3,925 babies in the U.S. since 1943. In 2025 it ranked #3,629 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1993, with 158 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.

Babies named Mikal, 2025

1 in 107,000

Mikal over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Mikal over time

In 2025, Mikal went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

19432025

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Mikal: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Mikael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mikal means

Mikal belongs to the name family reached through Mikal → Mikael. Its meaning is “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mikal is used in Faroese and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mikael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 3,334 boys were recorded with the name Mikal between 1943 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 158 in 1993; its best national rank was #841 in 1993.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,697 in 2020 to #3,629 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,953 in 2015 to #3,629 in 2025.

In the United States, 591 girls were recorded with the name Mikal between 1945 and 2020. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1975; its best national rank was #2,443 in 1975.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mikal?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 107,000
31 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 55,100
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#3,629
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
74,127 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mikal sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 74,127 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikal was born before 1995 — so the typical Mikal is around 30 today.

Median birth year
1995
About 30 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
3,303
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 32.1% of all recorded uses (1,071).

Is Mikal 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
+1,025
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+68
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+324
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.15×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
19.6%
Peak was 1993 (158)
Years since peak
32
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#841
1993

Spellings of Mikal

Mikal is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 46.6% against Mikal's 0.76%.

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 Mikal is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Mikal was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 124,084 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2Pennsylvania1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4District of Columbia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Georgia1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in 100,000
  7. 7North Carolina1 in 100,000
  8. 8New Jersey1 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. Mikal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Mikal is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Mikal was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 795,002 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Illinois1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls 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. Mikal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mikal around the world

Where Mikal 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.

  • England & Wales
    2020–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2021–2023
    #6,324
    in 2023
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #393
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1995–2024
    #2,328
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1980–2009
    #708
    in 2009

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Mikal

People whose public names include Mikal, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mikal by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#3,629
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 68
Best rank ever
#841
1993
Peak year
1993
158 that year
First recorded
1943
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
3,334
Count in 2025
31

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#2,443
1975
Peak year
1975
33 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2020
All-time count
591
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mikal

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MikahMikeyMikealMikelMikaelMikkoMikaiMikellMikaMikhailMikailMikloMikoMikkelMykalMikhaelMikaleMikingMikaeelKalMikhaiMikieMikhiMikolaj

Names with a curve like Mikal

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mikal, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KelbyLuizJarettNicklausQuentonDeshonRasheedDajuanTyreDemarcoMontezTrever

Sibling names for Mikal

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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