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Mychal

#13,288 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' name

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Mychal has been given to 2,272 babies in the U.S. since 1978. In 2025 it ranked #13,288 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1988, with 203 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 88% boys, 12% girls all-time.

Babies named Mychal, 2025

1 in 663,000

Mychal 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mychal over time

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

19782025

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.

Mychal: meaning, origin, and history

Meaning and linguistic origin unconfirmed

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mychal means

Mychal is a given name.

The naming story behind Mychal

Wikidata records Mychal as a male given name. The entity identifier is Q28859443, and the classification was checked on 2026-10-20. The spelling matches a source label or alias exactly, without removing accents or linking it to a name merely because the letters look similar.

A database classification is different from an etymological explanation, so those questions remain open in the short meaning.

A modern root explanation needs an additional naming or linguistic reference.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,007 boys were recorded with the name Mychal between 1978 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 203 in 1988; its best national rank was #665 in 1988.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #9,283 in 2020 to #13,288 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,656 in 2015 to #13,288 in 2025.

In the United States, 265 girls were recorded with the name Mychal between 1980 and 2008. Its highest annual count was 22 in 1988; its best national rank was #3,941 in 1984.

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.

How common is Mychal?

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
#13,288
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
459,581 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mychal 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 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mychal. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mychals were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mychal was born before 1990 — so the typical Mychal is around 35 today.

Median birth year
1990
About 35 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
43.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
22.3%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,007
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 43.5% of all recorded uses (874).

Is Mychal 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
−4,005
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−7,632
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.31×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
2.5%
Peak was 1988 (203)
Years since peak
37
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
20.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#665
1988

Spellings of Mychal

Mychal is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 96.1% against Mychal's 0.04%.

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 Mychal is used — boys

Across 1910–2025, Mychal was most concentrated in Oregon — about 1 in 16,667 boys, against 1 in 166,800 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 in —).

06 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Oregon1 in 16,667
  2. 2California1 in 50,000
  3. 3Arizona1 in 100,000
  4. 4Georgia1 in 100,000
  5. 5Minnesota1 in 100,000
  6. 6New Mexico1 in 100,000
  7. 7Ohio1 in 100,000
  8. 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. Mychal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Where Mychal is used — girls

Across 1910–2025, Mychal was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 2,001,597 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mychal has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mychal around the world

Where Mychal 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 Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Mychal

People whose public names include Mychal, 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.

Mychal in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mychal. Linked forms have their own page here.

Michal

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mychal by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#13,288
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 4,005
Best rank ever
#665
1988
Peak year
1988
203 that year
First recorded
1978
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,007
Count in 2025
5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#3,941
1984
Peak year
1988
22 that year
First recorded
1980
Last recorded
2008
All-time count
265
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mychal

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

MychaelVishalMycahMichalKushalNihalMarshalHershalPaschalMycalMychealSahalHalMycereOthalOrenthalKaushalMeshalSnehalNishalHarshalCathalSophalMikhal

Names with a curve like Mychal

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

JustineMartellTaureanTyrelArsenioKielBrandinJaradNicholausJessicaJamellDerrik

Sibling names for Mychal

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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