girls:
591 births since 1945
#5125 (10th percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1943
#2180 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.9k births since 1943
#4420 (43rd percentile)
The name Mikal is the #4,420 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,872 recorded births since 1943. This represents the 42.9% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 42.9% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,180 (52.4% percentile) for all time with 3,281 births since 1943. For girls, it ranks #5,125 (10.3% percentile) for all time with 591 births since 1945.
Mikal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1943 (1943 for boys and 1945 for girls). Birth data for Mikal is available in 80 out of the 81 years between 1943 and 2023 (78 years for boys and 52 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 Mikal has been given predominantly to boys, with 84.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mikal were boys.
For boys, Mikal reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 19.9% percentile (ranked #616) with 76 births per million. The name was most common in 1993, with 76 births per million (ranked 19.9% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mikal ranks #885 for boys (2.9% percentile) with 17 births per million, which is 22.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mikal reached its peak popularity in 1975, achieving the 3.7% percentile (ranked #725) with 21 births per million. The name was most common in 1975, with 21 births per million (ranked 3.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikal".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mikal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 27.7% confident that Mikal is pronounced as MEE-kuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-kuhl, at 27.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M IY1 K AH0 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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