girls:
265 births since 1980
#5451 (5th percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1978
#2806 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.3k births since 1978
#5534 (28th percentile)
The name Mychal is the #5,534 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,267 recorded births since 1978. This represents the 28.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 28.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,806 (38.8% percentile) for all time with 2,002 births since 1978. For girls, it ranks #5,451 (4.6% percentile) for all time with 265 births since 1980.
Mychal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1978 (1978 for boys and 1980 for girls).
The name Mychal has been given predominantly to boys, with 88.3% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mychal were boys.
For boys, Mychal reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 26.3% percentile (ranked #535) with 101 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 101 births per million (ranked 26.3% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2011, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mychal ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 2.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mychal reached its peak popularity in 1988, achieving the 2.1% percentile (ranked #791) with 11 births per million. The name was most common in 1988, with 11 births per million (ranked 2.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mychal".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Mychal. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 85.7% confident that Mychal is pronounced as MAI-kuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIH-kuhl, at 14.3% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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