girls:
19 births since 1989
#5697 (0th percentile)
boys:
2.4k births since 1921
#2596 (43rd percentile)
overall:
2.4k births since 1921
#5430 (30th percentile)
The name Mikeal is the #5,430 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,392 recorded births since 1921. This represents the 29.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 29.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,596 (43.4% percentile) for all time with 2,373 births since 1921. For girls, it ranks #5,697 (0.3% percentile) for all time with 19 births since 1989.
Mikeal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1921 (1921 for boys and 1989 for girls). Birth data for Mikeal is available in 82 out of the 103 years between 1921 and 2023 (82 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 Mikeal has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.2% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mikeal reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 9.0% percentile (ranked #558) with 30 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 30 births per million (ranked 9.0% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2006, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mikeal ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 14.4% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mikeal reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1996, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2002.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikeal".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Mikeal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 17.9% confident that Mikeal is pronounced as mih-KAYL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-kee-uhl, at 17.9% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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