Given name
Mychal
“who is like God?”
In English use, Mychal has a related form in Michael. One Hebrew interpretation is “who is like God?.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
In English use, Mychal has a related form in Michael. One Hebrew interpretation is “who is like God?.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
In English use, Mychal has a related form in Michael. An origin associated with Michael is Hebrew.
Explained through its name family
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1978. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mychal through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 2,272
- 2,007 boys · 265 girls
- Most popular year
- 1988
- 225 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,292 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −60%
- Cooling
Boys, girls and both
The balance of boys and girls given this name has shifted over time. Recent births are 100% boys.
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,292 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 203 in 1988. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,897 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mychal’s family of names
In English usage, Mychal has a related form in Michael.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 2
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mychal
- Mychal ThompsonBahamian basketball player (born 1955)
- Mychal MulderCanadian basketball player (born 1994)
- Mychal GivensAmerican baseball playerborn 1990
- Mychal KendricksAmerican football playerborn 1990
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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