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Mykolas

Boys' name

Who is like God?, through Μιχαήλ

Mykolas has been given to 20 babies in the U.S. since 2007. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 2013, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Mykolas, 2019

1 in 579,000

Mykolas over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mykolas: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Μιχαήλ

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mykolas means

Mykolas belongs to the name family reached through Mykolas → Μιχαήλ. Its meaning is “Who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mykolas is used in Lithuanian.

Mykolas comes through Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael, Michailas and Μιχαήλ.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Lithuanian, Mykolas is pronounced [¹ˈmʲiːkoːlɐs].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 20 boys were recorded with the name Mykolas between 2007 and 2019. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2013; its best national rank was #9,386 in 2013.

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 Mykolas?

Mykolas had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2019, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2019
1 in 579,000
6 of 3,472,229 births
Among boys only
1 in 299,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2019
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
401,129 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mykolas 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 2019 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 401,129 children born in 2019 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mykolas. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mykolass were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mykolas was born before 2013 — so the typical Mykolas is around 12 today.

Median birth year
2013
About 12 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
70.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
20
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 70.0% of all recorded uses (14).

Is Mykolas 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2013 (8)
Years since peak
12
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,386
2013

Spellings of Mykolas

Mykolas is not the most common spelling — Nikolas is, with 99.9% against Mykolas's 0.08%.

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.

Mykolas around the world

Where Mykolas 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
    2011–2018
    #3,011
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1964–1986
    #460
    in 1986

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mykolas by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#9,386
2013
Peak year
2013
8 that year
First recorded
2007
Last recorded
2019
All-time count
20
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mykolas

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

MykolaMykhailoMykhailMykhaelMykeltiBarlasMykhalLegolasMikolasMykelleMykeilCharlasRylasZilasMykailNycolasXylasKailasMykolMykaiSailasMykhelMykyngSolas

Sibling names for Mykolas

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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