girls:
332 births since 1975
#5384 (6th percentile)
boys:
1.2k births since 1972
#3445 (25th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1972
#6254 (19th percentile)
The name Mykal is the #6,254 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,491 recorded births since 1972. This represents the 19.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,445 (24.8% percentile) for all time with 1,159 births since 1972. For girls, it ranks #5,384 (5.8% percentile) for all time with 332 births since 1975.
Mykal first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1972 (1972 for boys and 1975 for girls). Birth data for Mykal is available in 46 out of the 52 years between 1972 and 2023 (45 years for boys and 29 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 Mykal has been given predominantly to boys, with 77.7% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Mykal were boys.
For boys, Mykal reached its peak popularity in 2001, achieving the 6.6% percentile (ranked #771) with 29 births per million. The name was most common in 2001, with 29 births per million (ranked 6.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mykal ranks #905 for boys (0.7% percentile) with 6 births per million, which is 21.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mykal reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #855) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2018.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mykal".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mykal is pronounced as MAI-kuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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