Mychael
Mychael is a boy's name that peaked in 1989, when it was the 1,162nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 10,695th. About 1,500 Mychaels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 28.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mychael boys named Mychael
Girls and boys called Mychael
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 242 girls and 1,348 boys in all, and in 2015 the split was 0 to 26.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 30 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
- 1,590
- Estimated living today
- 1,500
- Median age today
- 28
- Peak year
- 1989
- Best rank
- 1,162nd
- Rank in 2025
- 10,695th
- First recorded
- 1972
- Girls / boys
- 242 / 1,348
How old the living Mychaels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,590 babies given the name since 1972, about 1,500 are alive — 97 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1997 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 Mychaels
- Mychael Danna (born 1958)Canadian film score composer
People named Mychael with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mychael is most common
Across the country Mychael is recorded 0.07 times per 100,000 births, so these are the states above that line. Only states with 50 or more recorded Mychaels are ranked here: below that a handful of births makes a rate that moves on chance alone.
Counts favour the big states, which is why the same few lead this list for almost every name.
Births recorded in each state since 1910. A name given to fewer than five babies in one state in one year is not published, so a name's quietest states are missing from this rather than showing zero. Browse names by state.
Names of 1989
The most popular boys’ names the year Mychael peaked:
Related names
Mychael 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.