Mikal

Where Mikal comes from

Mikal hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

Along the way
  1. 1920
    Mikal Kirkholt born
    Norwegian cross-country skier
  2. 1943
    First appearance
    #3,231 among boys, 6 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  3. 1976
    Mostly boys from here
    Until now more girls than boys got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
  4. 1993
    Peak, #840
    158 babies named Mikal — more than any year before or since.
  5. 1996
    Mikal Bridges born
    American basketball player
  6. 2005
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,943.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Mikal Bridges · American basketball player, born 1996
  • Mikal Kirkholt · Norwegian cross-country skier, 1920–2012
  • Mikal Urheim · Norwegian Sami writer, 1932–2020
  • Mikal Hem · Norwegian journalist, born 1973
  • Mikal Tseggai · politician from the Netherlands, born 1995

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.