Mychal
Last seen for girls in 2008 at #17,504 · #12,008 for boys in 2025, 5 births
Given to boys 88.3% of the time
- Peak · boys
- 1988 · 203 births
- Debut · boys
- 59 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 2,007since 1978
Mychal 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #12,008 | 5 | |
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | — | #12,239 | 5 | |
| 2022 | — | #12,330 | 5 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,825 | 8 | |
| 2020 | — | #8,739 | 8 | |
| 2019 | — | #9,756 | 7 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,320 | 17 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,338 | 13 | |
| 2016 | — | #6,349 | 13 | |
| 2015 | — | #5,507 | 16 | |
| 2014 | — | #4,263 | 23 | |
| 2013 | — | #4,804 | 19 | |
| 2012 | — | #4,862 | 19 | |
| 2011 | — | #5,433 | 16 | |
| 2010 | — | #5,047 | 18 | |
| 2009 | — | #4,429 | 22 | |
| 2008 | #17,504 | 5 | #3,561 | 30 |
| 2007 | #12,676 | 8 | #3,313 | 33 |
| 2006 | — | #5,072 | 17 | |
| 2005 | — | #5,034 | 16 | |
| 2004 | — | #5,007 | 16 | |
| 2003 | #13,844 | 6 | #3,976 | 21 |
| 2002 | #11,108 | 8 | #1,916 | 58 |
| 2001 | #12,056 | 7 | #2,306 | 43 |
| 2000 | #11,801 | 7 | #5,040 | 14 |
| 1999 | #14,411 | 5 | #3,704 | 20 |
| 1998 | #8,016 | 11 | #3,092 | 25 |
| 1997 | #7,283 | 12 | #2,981 | 25 |
| 1996 | #9,581 | 8 | #2,218 | 37 |
| 1995 | #6,641 | 13 | #2,102 | 39 |
| 1994 | #9,586 | 8 | #2,012 | 41 |
| 1993 | #9,559 | 8 | #1,699 | 51 |
| 1992 | #7,067 | 12 | #1,309 | 74 |
| 1991 | #6,588 | 13 | #1,017 | 112 |
| 1990 | #5,835 | 15 | #824 | 153 |
| 1989 | #9,681 | 7 | #747 | 176 |
| 1988 | #4,015 | 22 | #662 | 203 |
| 1987 | #4,283 | 19 | #770 | 143 |
| 1986 | #10,912 | 5 | #1,363 | 52 |
| 1985 | #10,677 | 5 | #1,043 | 78 |
| 1984 | #3,874 | 20 | #1,123 | 65 |
| 1983 | #4,109 | 18 | #1,314 | 50 |
| 1982 | #6,371 | 10 | #1,293 | 52 |
| 1981 | #9,110 | 6 | #1,899 | 29 |
| 1980 | #8,178 | 7 | #2,058 | 26 |
| 1979 | — | #1,633 | 35 | |
| 1978 | — | #1,149 | 59 | |
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The first year at least five boys were named Mychal! It came in at #1,149, and was given to 59 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 2022–2025, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
See more about Mychal
- 3,269 spots since 2020 (#8,739 → #12,008)
- 6,501 spots since 2015 (#5,507 → #12,008)
- Biggest jump: 593 spots in 1987 (#1,363 → #770)
- Biggest drop: 193 spots in 1991 (#824 → #1,017)
- Debuted 1978
- Peaked 1988 at #662 (203 births)
- Births halved by 1992, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 4 yrs · run 1987–1990
- Highest: 1 in 9,430 boys born in 1988 were named Mychal (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 341,615 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 43.5% of all boys named Mychal (874) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1970s | 94 | #1,149 (1978) | #1,391 |
| 1980s | 874 | #662 (1988) | #1,227 |
| 1990s | 577 | #824 (1990) | #2,096 |
| 2000s | 270 | #1,916 (2002) | #3,965 |
| 2010s | 161 | #4,263 (2014) | #5,768 |
| 2020s | 31 | #8,739 (2020) | #10,828 |
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.
Mychal in 1990
Top girls' names in 1990
Top boys' names in 1990
More about 1990
girls
1,898,547 girls got a published name in 1990; 1 in 126,570 of them was named Mychal, which outranked 61.7% of the 15,234 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 16.0% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #5,549Yalonda16
- #5,549Yee16
- #5,549Yu16
- #5,835Mychal15
- #5,835Aeisha15
- #5,835Aireal15
- #5,835Aishia15
- #6,131Abbigale14
- #6,131Africa14
- #6,131Aisling14
Tied with 295 names at #5,835; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
2,054,038 boys got a published name in 1990; 1 in 13,425 of them was named Mychal, which outranked 91.3% of the 9,493 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 19.5% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).