girls:
16 births since 1990
#5700 (0th percentile)
boys:
134 births since 1996
#4452 (3rd percentile)
overall:
150 births since 1990
#7589 (2nd percentile)
The name Mekel is the #7,589 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 150 recorded births since 1990. This represents the 1.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 1.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,452 (2.9% percentile) for all time with 134 births since 1996. For girls, it ranks #5,700 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 16 births since 1990.
Mekel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1990 (1990 for girls and 1996 for boys). Birth data for Mekel is available in 20 out of the 28 years between 1990 and 2017 (19 years for boys and 3 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mekel has been given predominantly to boys, with 89.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2017, 100.0% of babies named Mekel were boys. Interestingly, until around 1996, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 1990 to 1995), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (92.4% boys from 1996 to 2017).
For boys, Mekel reached its peak popularity in 2003, achieving the 1.0% percentile (ranked #817) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 2003, with 6 births per million (ranked 1.0% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2017.
For girls, Mekel reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.1% percentile (ranked #862) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mekel".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Mekel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 37.1% confident that Mekel is pronounced as MEH-kuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KEHL, at 28.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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