Mychal
Mychal is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 665th, in 1988.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1988203 births
- Best rank
- #665in 1988
- Since 1978
- 2,267people given the name
The story in the numbers
2,002 boys have been named Mychal in the United States since 1978, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1988, with 203 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 203 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1990, and the 1980s alone account for 44%. It has spent 4 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 265 girls have also been given it, 12% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
In 1988, its biggest year
Mychal was the 665th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1988 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Andrew. See all of 1988.
Names that rose and fell with Mychal
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Jamellepeak 1988
- Jerellpeak 1988
- Jarrelpeak 1987
- Martellpeak 1986
- Demariopeak 1989
- Durrellpeak 1985
- Rynepeak 1985
- Martelpeak 1991
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.