Mykal
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- MY-kul
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #7,675 for boys
Mykal is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 7,675th for boys in the US (10 babies).
What does Mykal mean?
Hebrew: spelling of Michael
“who is like God?”
Michael is the archangel who leads the heavenly armies in the Book of Revelation.
Is Mykal a girl's or a boy's name?
Mykal is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 10 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mykal in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 7,675th among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 10 about 1 in 170,000 boys
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 boys
In 2025, 10 boys in the US were named Mykal, making it the 7,675th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,694th. Its busiest year was 2001, with 59 boys. It first appears in the records in 1972.
Half of all the boys named Mykal in the US since 1880 were born between 1994 and 2008, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 8,458 boys in the US were given Mykal or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #24, up from #7,675 for this spelling alone.
In 2014, 23% of the babies named Mykal in the US were girls.
Mykal in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 10 | #7,675 |
| 2024 | 5 | #12,341 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 14 | #6,141 |
| 2021 | 8 | #8,820 |
| 2020 | 20 | #4,694 |
| 2019 | 12 | #6,772 |
| 2018 | 8 | #8,813 |
| 2017 | 10 | #7,542 |
| 2016 | 16 | #5,551 |
| 2015 | 23 | #4,293 |
| 2014 | 24 | #4,135 |
| 2013 | 17 | #5,167 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,891 |
| 2011 | 20 | #4,657 |
| 2010 | 23 | #4,240 |
| 2009 | 26 | #3,917 |
| 2008 | 36 | #3,163 |
| 2007 | 26 | #3,891 |
| 2006 | 37 | #2,978 |
| 2005 | 43 | #2,563 |
| 2004 | 41 | #2,595 |
| 2003 | 37 | #2,670 |
| 2002 | 39 | #2,500 |
| 2001 | 59 | #1,867 |
| 2000 | 51 | #1,989 |
| 1999 | 55 | #1,798 |
| 1998 | 55 | #1,808 |
| 1997 | 44 | #2,021 |
| 1996 | 39 | #2,140 |
| 1995 | 42 | #1,983 |
| 1994 | 44 | #1,889 |
| 1993 | 33 | #2,290 |
| 1992 | 28 | #2,527 |
| 1991 | 29 | #2,400 |
| 1990 | 43 | #1,804 |
| 1989 | 25 | #2,539 |
| 1988 | 26 | #2,300 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,233 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,453 |
| 1985 | 9 | #4,328 |
| 1984 | 6 | #5,557 |
| 1983 | 6 | #5,481 |
| 1982 | 0 | – |
| 1981 | 10 | #3,856 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,493 |
| 1979 | 0 | – |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,552 |
| 1977 | 0 | – |
| 1976 | 0 | – |
| 1975 | 0 | – |
| 1974 | 0 | – |
| 1973 | 0 | – |
| 1972 | 5 | #4,983 |
Nicknames for Mykal
- Mike 8 boys in the UK in 2025
Names like Mykal
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Misael, Musa, Noah, Caleb, Micah, Abdiel, Khalil, Axel, Malik, Maxwell, Malachi, Jacob
Other spellings of Mykal
Michael, Micheal, Mykel, Maikol, Maykel, Maicol, Maikel, Maycol, Mykell, Maykol, Mykael
Names related to Mykal
More Hebrew names
Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias, Mateo, Elsie
Sources
Figures from Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.
To cite this page: Nameling, “Mykal: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mykal, updated 20 October 2026.