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Mykell

About 1,068 American babies have been named Mykell since 1984, most of them around 2006. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 6,803rd. About 1,100 Mykells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 18.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mykell boys named Mykell

Girls and boys called Mykell

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 258 girls and 810 boys in all, and in 2021 the split was 0 to 30.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 20 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
1,068
Estimated living today
1,100
Median age today
18
Peak year
2006
Best rank
2,744th
Rank in 2025
6,803rd
First recorded
1984
Girls / boys
258 / 810

How old the living Mykells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 1,068 babies given the name since 1984, about 1,100 are alive — 99 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2007 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.

Where Mykell is most common

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2006

The most popular boys’ names the year Mykell peaked:

All the names of 2006

Related names

Mykell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.