Mychael
#11,566 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mychael has been given to 1,590 babies in the U.S. since 1972. In 2025 it ranked #11,566 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1989, with 83 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 85% boys, 15% girls all-time.
Babies named Mychael, 2025
1 in 553,000
Mychael 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mychael over time
In 2025, Mychael 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 Mychael?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 553,000
- 6 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 285,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #11,566
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 382,984 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mychael 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mychael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mychaels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mychael was born before 1997 — so the typical Mychael is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 29.0% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 41.0%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,348
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 29.0% of all recorded uses (391).
Is Mychael 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
- −3,675
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −7,526
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.23×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 7.2%
- Peak was 1989 (83)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.4% average annual change
Spellings of Mychael
Mychael is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 99.5% against Mychael's 0.03%.
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 Mychael is used
Across 1910–2025, Mychael was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 223,249 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
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. Mychael has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mychael around the world
Where Mychael 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.
- Canada1994–1994#1,526in 1994
- South Australia1990–1990#484in 1990
Popularity data from Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mychael by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mychael
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mychael
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.