Mychal
Recorded 1978–2025 · United States
Mychal was most popular in 1988, when 225 American babies were given the name — ranking #1,412 that year. In 2025 it ranked #24,763, with 5 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,272 people named Mychal.
Mychal over time
How old is the name Mychal?
Mychal first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1978, which makes it about 47 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 47 of the 48 years since.
How many people are named Mychal?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,272 American births named Mychal between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 2,186 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Mychal in 2025?
5 American babies were named Mychal in 2025, ranking #24,763 that year.
Is Mychal getting more or less popular?
Mychal is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 6 births a year across 2021–2025 against 19 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Mychal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Mychal is mostly a boy’s name — 11.7% of the 2,272 Americans given it were girls and 88.3% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Mychal?
Roughly 2,186 Americans named Mychal are alive today — 96% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 36 years old, and half are between 28 and 39. That is a narrow band: Mychal arrived and faded within about a decade rather than staying in steady use.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
Where Mychal is most concentrated
How much more common the name is in each state than across the country as a whole.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org