girls:
10 births since 2002
#5706 (0th percentile)
boys:
28 births since 2017
#4558 (1st percentile)
overall:
38 births since 2002
#7701 (0th percentile)
The name Myel is the #7,701 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 38 recorded births since 2002. This represents the 0.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 0.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,558 (0.5% percentile) for all time with 28 births since 2017. For girls, it ranks #5,706 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 10 births since 2002.
Myel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 2002 (2002 for girls and 2017 for boys). Birth data for Myel is available in 7 out of the 22 years between 2002 and 2023 (5 years for boys and 2 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 Myel has been given predominantly to boys, with 73.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Myel were boys. Interestingly, until around 2017, the name was more popular for girls (100.0% girls from 2002 to 2016), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (100.0% boys from 2017 to 2023).
For boys, Myel reached its peak popularity in 2021, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #928) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 2021, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Myel ranks #911 for boys (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 73.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Myel reached its peak popularity in 2002, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #894) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Myel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Myel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 51.5% confident that Myel is pronounced as MAI-uhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MAI-ehl, at 36.4% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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