Mykell
#7,060 in 2025UnisexBoys' nameGirls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mykell has been given to 1,068 babies in the U.S. since 1987. In 2025 it ranked #7,060 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2006, with 42 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 76% boys, 24% girls all-time.
Babies named Mykell, 2025
1 in 276,000
Mykell 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 — Mykell over time
In 2025, Mykell 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 Mykell?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 276,000
- 12 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 142,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #7,060
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 191,493 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mykell 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 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mykell. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mykells were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mykell was born before 2009 — so the typical Mykell is around 16 today.
- Biggest decade
- 2000s
- 38.4% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 82.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 810
- People you could plausibly meet
2000s — 38.4% of all recorded uses (311).
Is Mykell 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
- −1,870
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −2,829
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −2,563
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.55×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 28.6%
- Peak was 2006 (42)
- Years since peak
- 19
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 17.8% average annual change
Spellings of Mykell
Mykell is not the most common spelling — Tyrell is, with 34.4% against Mykell's 1.7%.
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 Mykell is used
Across 1910–2025, Mykell was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 872,678 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1California1 in —
- 2Georgia1 in —
- 3Missouri1 in —
- 4Ohio1 in —
- 5South Carolina1 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. Mykell has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mykell by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mykell
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mykell
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.