Mikal
About 3,925 American babies have been named Mikal since 1943, most of them around 1993. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 3,583rd. About 3,700 Mikals are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mikal boys named Mikal
Girls and boys called Mikal
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 591 girls and 3,334 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 0 to 31.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 50 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 3,925
- Estimated living today
- 3,700
- Median age today
- 30
- Peak year
- 1993
- Best rank
- 840th
- Rank in 2025
- 3,583rd
- First recorded
- 1943
- Girls / boys
- 591 / 3,334
How old the living Mikals are
born that year still alive today
Of the 3,925 babies given the name since 1943, about 3,700 are alive — 95 in every hundred. Roughly 630 of them are children and 100 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Mikals
- Mikal Bridges (born 1996)American basketball player
- Mikal Kirkholt (1920–2012)Norwegian cross-country skier
People named Mikal with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mikal is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mikal is most concentrated in Pennsylvania (3.9×), Florida (2.9×), Georgia (2.0×), Texas (1.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1993
The most popular boys’ names the year Mikal peaked:
Mikal elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Norway boys | Mikal | 901 | 164th |
| Switzerland girls | Mikal | 23 | 1,116th |
| France boys | Mikal | 10 | 6,324th |
| England and Wales boys | Mikal | 6 | 4,608th |
| England and Wales girls | Mikal | 3 | 5,556th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mikal: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German girls | Switzerland | Mikal | 19 | 0.002% | 982nd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mikal | 4 | 0.001% | 545th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
Mikal by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 2 | 584th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mikal among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Mikal | — | 5 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Mikal against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.