Mycah vs Mychael
American parents have registered 1,683 Mycahs since 1880, against 1,590 Mychaels. Mycah is still ahead, with 35 babies in 2025.
Babies given each name, 1880–2025
Mycah Mychael
Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.
Who was ahead
Of the 49 years in which either name was published, Mycah for 27 years and Mychael for 22 years. The lead changed hands once.
Side by side
| Mycah | Mychael | |
|---|---|---|
| Total US births | 1,683 | 1,590 |
| Most in one year | 71 | 91 |
| Babies in 2025 | 35 | 6 |
| Estimated living today | 1,700 | 1,500 |
| Median age today | 16 | 28 |
| Peak year | 2022 | 1989 |
| Best rank | 2,919th boys | 1,162nd boys |
| Rank in 2025 | 3,848th | 10,695th |
| First recorded | 1980 | 1972 |
| Girls / boys | 828 / 855 | 242 / 1,348 |
A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.
Which name is older
Half of the Mychaels alive today are over 28; half the Mycahs are over 16. That is 12 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.
Where each one is strongest
- Mycah Texas (7.4×), California (2.0×)
- Mychael California (6.4×), Michigan (2.2×), Texas (1.9×)
How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.
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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mycah and Mychael.