girls:
126 births since 1990
#5590 (2nd percentile)
boys:
524 births since 1986
#4062 (11th percentile)
overall:
650 births since 1986
#7089 (8th percentile)
The name Mykael is the #7,089 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 650 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 8.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,062 (11.4% percentile) for all time with 524 births since 1986. For girls, it ranks #5,590 (2.2% percentile) for all time with 126 births since 1990.
Mykael first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (1986 for boys and 1990 for girls). Birth data for Mykael is available in 37 out of the 38 years between 1986 and 2023 (37 years for boys and 17 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 Mykael has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.6% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mykael were boys.
For boys, Mykael reached its peak popularity in 2010, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #855) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 2010, with 15 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mykael ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 26.2% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mykael reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #839) with 6 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 6 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mykael".
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Our model has identified 11 different pronunciations for the name Mykael. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 23.1% confident that Mykael is pronounced as MAI-kuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mai-KAYL, at 23.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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