Mikale
#13,255 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mikale has been given to 413 babies in the U.S. since 1986. In 2025 it ranked #13,255 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2002, with 26 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 91% boys, 9% girls all-time.
Babies named Mikale, 2025
1 in 663,000
Mikale 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
Girls or boys — Mikale over time
In 2025, Mikale went to 0% girls and 100% boys.
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.
How common is Mikale?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 342,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #13,255
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mikale 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikale. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mikales were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikale was born before 2004 — so the typical Mikale is around 21 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 44.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 69.3%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 374
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (165).
Is Mikale 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
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- +144
- Places climbed
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −5,876
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.45×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 19.2%
- Peak was 2002 (26)
- Years since peak
- 23
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 24.9% average annual change
Spellings of Mikale
Mikale is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 82.1% against Mikale's 0.15%.
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.
Mikale around the world
Where Mikale 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 Australia2003–2003#588in 2003
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mikale by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mikale
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mikale
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.