Mychael
Last seen for girls in 2020 at #15,088 · #10,695 for boys in 2025, 6 births
Given to boys 84.8% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1989 · 83 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 1,348since 1972
Mychael 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 | — | #10,695 | 6 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | #8,921 | 8 | |
| 2022 | — | #7,768 | 10 | |
| 2021 | — | #7,089 | 11 | |
| 2020 | #15,088 | 5 | #7,502 | 10 |
| 2019 | — | #6,406 | 13 | |
| 2018 | — | #4,918 | 19 | |
| 2017 | — | #8,140 | 9 | |
| 2016 | — | #4,470 | 22 | |
| 2015 | — | #3,982 | 26 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,538 | 21 | |
| 2013 | — | #3,661 | 28 | |
| 2012 | #11,257 | 9 | #3,530 | 30 |
| 2011 | #16,764 | 5 | #3,306 | 33 |
| 2010 | #14,959 | 6 | #4,099 | 24 |
| 2009 | — | #2,946 | 40 | |
| 2008 | #13,832 | 7 | #3,744 | 28 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #2,868 | 41 |
| 2006 | #13,606 | 7 | #3,451 | 30 |
| 2005 | #13,010 | 7 | #3,319 | 30 |
| 2004 | #8,716 | 12 | #3,368 | 28 |
| 2003 | #7,207 | 15 | #3,626 | 24 |
| 2002 | #9,482 | 10 | #3,095 | 29 |
| 2001 | #8,758 | 11 | #2,797 | 33 |
| 2000 | #10,745 | 8 | #2,993 | 29 |
| 1999 | — | #2,665 | 32 | |
| 1998 | #6,360 | 15 | #2,507 | 34 |
| 1997 | #9,017 | 9 | #2,311 | 36 |
| 1996 | #6,064 | 15 | #2,747 | 27 |
| 1995 | #8,766 | 9 | #2,626 | 28 |
| 1994 | #7,097 | 12 | #2,444 | 31 |
| 1993 | #13,442 | 5 | #1,792 | 47 |
| 1992 | — | #1,955 | 41 | |
| 1991 | #7,430 | 11 | #1,573 | 54 |
| 1990 | #7,303 | 11 | #1,435 | 61 |
| 1989 | #8,761 | 8 | #1,162 | 83 |
| 1988 | #7,691 | 9 | #1,263 | 66 |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | #1,337 | 55 |
| 1986 | #9,545 | 6 | #1,791 | 34 |
| 1985 | #8,318 | 7 | #1,614 | 39 |
| 1984 | — | #2,529 | 19 | |
| 1983 | #10,275 | 5 | #2,577 | 18 |
| 1982 | #10,517 | 5 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | — | #3,601 | 11 | |
| 1980 | — | #5,525 | 6 | |
| 1979 | — | #4,842 | 7 | |
| 1978 | — | #2,669 | 16 | |
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| 1972 | — | #4,986 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mychael! It came in at #4,986, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1972–1977, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Mychael
- 3,193 spots since 2020 (#7,502 → #10,695)
- 6,713 spots since 2015 (#3,982 → #10,695)
- Debuted 1972
- Peaked 1989 at #1,162 (83 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 3 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 24,108 boys born in 1989 were named Mychael (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 284,679 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 29.0% of all boys named Mychael (391) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 28 | #2,669 (1978) | #4,166 |
| 1980s | 347 | #1,162 (1989) | #2,423 |
| 1990s | 391 | #1,435 (1990) | #2,206 |
| 2000s | 312 | #2,797 (2001) | #3,221 |
| 2010s | 225 | #3,306 (2011) | #4,705 |
| 2020s | 45 | #7,089 (2021) | #8,395 |
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.
Mychael in 1989
Top girls' names in 1989
Top boys' names in 1989
More about 1989
girls
1,843,552 girls got a published name in 1989; 1 in 230,444 of them was named Mychael, which outranked 39.8% of the 14,550 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.9% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #8,037Zenab9
- #8,037Zita9
- #8,037Zohra9
- #8,761Mychael8
- #8,761Aariel8
- #8,761Abeer8
- #8,761Abel8
- #9,681Aarica7
- #9,681Abbagail7
- #9,681Abbee7
Tied with 919 names at #8,761; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,000,928 boys got a published name in 1989; 1 in 24,108 of them was named Mychael, which outranked 87.4% of the 9,232 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 20.4% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #1,154Octavius84
- #1,154Patric84
- #1,154Shon84
- #1,162Mychael83
- #1,162Benton83
- #1,162Isai83
- #1,162Jarett83
- #1,173Brayden82
- #1,173Christia82
- #1,173Demetris82
Tied with 10 names at #1,162; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.