Mikal
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #11,090 · #3,583 for boys in 2025, 31 births
Given to boys 84.9% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1993 · 158 births
- Debut · boys
- 6 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 3,334since 1943
Mikal over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #3,583 | 31 | |
| 2024 | — | #4,571 | 22 | |
| 2023 | — | #3,629 | 31 | |
| 2022 | — | #4,701 | 21 | |
| 2021 | — | #4,628 | 21 | |
| 2020 | #11,090 | 8 | #3,653 | 29 |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | #3,899 | 27 |
| 2018 | #10,545 | 9 | #3,446 | 32 |
| 2017 | — | #3,781 | 28 | |
| 2016 | #14,331 | 6 | #3,776 | 28 |
| 2015 | #11,835 | 8 | #3,882 | 27 |
| 2014 | #16,513 | 5 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #8,580 | 13 | #2,804 | 41 |
| 2012 | #13,483 | 7 | #3,115 | 36 |
| 2011 | #14,824 | 6 | #3,364 | 32 |
| 2010 | #11,246 | 9 | #2,958 | 39 |
| 2009 | #12,429 | 8 | #2,894 | 41 |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #2,828 | 42 |
| 2007 | #13,924 | 7 | #2,094 | 65 |
| 2006 | #8,715 | 13 | #1,823 | 75 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #1,943 | 65 |
| 2004 | #9,892 | 10 | #1,565 | 84 |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #1,578 | 80 |
| 2002 | #12,187 | 7 | #1,529 | 81 |
| 2001 | #7,317 | 14 | #1,481 | 82 |
| 2000 | #7,580 | 13 | #1,448 | 85 |
| 1999 | #7,716 | 12 | #1,106 | 120 |
| 1998 | #7,104 | 13 | #1,280 | 94 |
| 1997 | #4,819 | 21 | #1,000 | 128 |
| 1996 | #5,771 | 16 | #1,155 | 102 |
| 1995 | #4,518 | 22 | #965 | 133 |
| 1994 | #4,845 | 20 | #958 | 132 |
| 1993 | #4,524 | 22 | #840 | 158 |
| 1992 | #6,652 | 13 | #1,294 | 76 |
| 1991 | #9,336 | 8 | #1,482 | 59 |
| 1990 | #5,286 | 17 | #1,336 | 69 |
| 1989 | #6,531 | 12 | #1,766 | 43 |
| 1988 | #4,172 | 21 | #1,592 | 45 |
| 1987 | #5,074 | 15 | #1,484 | 48 |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | #4,635 | 16 | #1,544 | 42 |
| 1984 | #6,810 | 9 | #1,399 | 46 |
| 1983 | — | #1,296 | 51 | |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #1,342 | 49 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #1,334 | 49 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 | #1,258 | 54 |
| 1979 | #6,696 | 9 | #1,154 | 61 |
| 1978 | #4,679 | 14 | #1,034 | 71 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | #1,221 | 52 |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | #1,238 | 49 |
| 1975 | #2,411 | 33 | #1,884 | 25 |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 | #1,832 | 25 |
| 1973 | — | #2,606 | 14 | |
| 1972 | — | #1,721 | 26 | |
| 1971 | — | #2,126 | 19 | |
| 1970 | #6,362 | 7 | #2,293 | 16 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 | #1,977 | 18 |
| 1968 | #7,016 | 5 | #1,894 | 18 |
| 1967 | — | #1,974 | 16 | |
| 1966 | — | #2,784 | 9 | |
| 1965 | #6,539 | 5 | #2,366 | 12 |
| 1964 | — | #2,310 | 13 | |
| 1963 | — | #2,539 | 11 | |
| 1962 | — | #2,035 | 16 | |
| 1961 | — | #2,322 | 13 | |
| 1960 | — | #2,871 | 9 | |
| 1959 | — | #2,295 | 13 | |
| 1958 | — | #3,033 | 8 | |
| 1957 | — | #2,190 | 14 | |
| 1956 | — | #2,361 | 12 | |
| 1955 | — | #2,964 | 8 | |
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| 1953 | — | #1,958 | 16 | |
| 1952 | — | #3,095 | 7 | |
| 1951 | — | #2,367 | 11 | |
| 1950 | — | #3,681 | 5 | |
| 1949 | — | #3,298 | 6 | |
| 1948 | — | #3,316 | 6 | |
| 1947 | #4,345 | 7 | — | |
| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 | #3,525 | 5 |
| 1945 | #3,676 | 7 | — | |
| 1944 | — | #2,633 | 8 | |
| 1943 | — | #3,231 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mikal! It came in at #3,231, and was given to 6 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1945–1947, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Mikal
- 988 spots since 2024 (#4,571 → #3,583)
- 70 spots since 2020 (#3,653 → #3,583)
- 299 spots since 2015 (#3,882 → #3,583)
- Biggest jump: 454 spots in 1993 (#1,294 → #840)
- Biggest drop: 280 spots in 1998 (#1,000 → #1,280)
- Debuted 1943
- Peaked 1993 at #840 (158 births)
- Births halved by 2005, 12 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1993–1995
- Highest: 1 in 12,413 boys born in 1993 were named Mikal (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 55,099 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.1% of all boys named Mikal (1,071) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 1975, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 31 | #2,633 (1944) | #3,201 |
| 1950s | 94 | #1,958 (1953) | #2,660 |
| 1960s | 135 | #1,894 (1968) | #2,307 |
| 1970s | 358 | #1,034 (1978) | #1,711 |
| 1980s | 479 | #1,258 (1980) | #1,438 |
| 1990s | 1,071 | #840 (1993) | #1,142 |
| 2000s | 700 | #1,448 (2000) | #1,918 |
| 2010s | 311 | #2,804 (2013) | #3,556 |
| 2020s | 155 | #3,583 (2025) | #4,128 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mikal in 2002
Top girls' names in 2002
Top boys' names in 2002
More about 2002
girls
1,796,882 girls got a published name in 2002; 1 in 256,697 of them was named Mikal, which outranked 32.6% of the 18,086 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 9.6% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #11,108Zoelle8
- #11,108Zyla8
- #11,108Zyriah8
- #12,187Mikal7
- #12,187Aaliayh7
- #12,187Aamina7
- #12,187Aana7
- #13,595Aaishah6
- #13,595Aalana6
- #13,595Aalaysia6
Tied with 1,407 names at #12,187; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,941,514 boys got a published name in 2002; 1 in 23,969 of them was named Mikal, which outranked 87.8% of the 12,489 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 12.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,514Mihir82
- #1,514Otis82
- #1,514Pierson82
- #1,529Mikal81
- #1,529Ashwin81
- #1,529Brayton81
- #1,529Broc81
- #1,543Abhinav80
- #1,543Adnan80
- #1,543Chauncey80
Tied with 13 names at #1,529; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.