girls:
15 births since 1996
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
1.1k births since 1984
#3461 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.2k births since 1984
#6583 (15th percentile)
The name Mikail is the #6,583 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,157 recorded births since 1984. This represents the 14.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,461 (24.5% percentile) for all time with 1,142 births since 1984. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 1996.
Mikail first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1984 (1984 for boys and 1996 for girls).
The name Mikail has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mikail reached its peak popularity in 2019, achieving the 5.1% percentile (ranked #870) with 27 births per million. The name was most common in 2019, with 27 births per million (ranked 5.1% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 1988, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mikail is at or near its peak popularity for boys, ranked #867 (4.8% percentile) with 27 births per million.
For girls, Mikail reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #863) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2001.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikail".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Mikail. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 39.5% confident that Mikail is pronounced as mih-KAYL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KAIL, at 36.8% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH0 K EY1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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