Mikal

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mikal: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mikal: Recorded since 1946, it reached #166 in 2001, and it stood at #410 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
72times a registrar ranked it
80years from first to last
#166highest recorded position
12groupings it qualifies for

Region

Trend unknown

among girls in England and Wales · 2009

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
2009	#5556

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

Trend unknownEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 69 of the 80 years from 1946 to 2025.

In 2021: #480 among boys in Norway, #4789 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1946–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1946
First recorded at #336 among boys in Norway in 1946 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1946–2025
Highest recorded position: #166 among boys in Norway, in 2001 (recorded 1946–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #410 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Mikal appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 69 years beginning in 1946, and has registered 901 births with the name.

Mikal across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mikal's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#336 (1946)	#166 (2001)	#410 (2025)	69 of 80	901 (1946–2025)	38 (2001)
England and Wales · Boys	#4608 (2020)	#4608 (2020)	#4789 (2021)	2 of 2	6 (2020–2021)	3 (2020)

Mikal by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mikal in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	29	4 of 10	7
1950s	24	5 of 10	5
1960s	28	6 of 10	5
1970s	84	9 of 10	9
1980s	123	10 of 10	12
1990sbusiest	261	10 of 10	26
2000s	207	10 of 10	21
2010s	113	10 of 10	11
2020s	32	5 of 10	6

Across Norway · Boys, the 1990s were its busiest decade, averaging 26 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mikal appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1946 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #166 in Norway in 2001.

Mikal's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#4608	3	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#5556	3	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#410	7	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#521	4	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#296	13	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#480	4	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#468	4	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#365	9	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#355	10	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#431	7	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#464	6	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#465	6	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#424	8	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#313	14	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#236	21	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#280	16	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#286	16	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#251	20	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#274	17	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#214	24	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#238	20	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#238	19	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#263	16	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#268	16	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#240	18	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#166	38	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#252	19	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#214	25	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#199	26	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#215	25	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#269	17	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#187	33	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#195	32	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#173	37	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#262	21	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#250	22	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#235	23	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#221	28	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#297	16	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#346	13	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#540	6	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#316	15	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#593	5	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#507	7	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#419	10	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#335	13	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#410	10	High	Verified
1979	Norway	male	#470	8	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#343	13	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#478	7	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#306	15	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#439	9	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#383	11	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#371	11	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#605	4	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#531	6	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#506	5	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#540	4	High	Verified
1964	Norway	male	#513	4	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#440	6	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#444	5	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#483	4	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#468	4	High	Verified
1957	Norway	male	#407	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#425	4	High	Verified
1953	Norway	male	#392	4	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#325	7	High	Verified
1949	Norway	male	#356	5	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#337	6	High	Verified
1947	Norway	male	#247	12	High	Verified
1946	Norway	male	#336	6	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1946 and 2025, ranked in 69 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #166, first reached in 2001.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 38 births, registered in Norway in 2001.

Its record falls into 11 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 2009, and 63 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Mikah · #2483, 18y
Mikail · #296, 29y
Mikayla · #42, 31y
Mike · #263, 51y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Elisabet · #154, 68y
Eldar · #188, 69y
Niels · #201, 68y
Wilhelm · #121, 73y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Eddie · #166, 55y
Gunnhild · #166, 61y
Torgunn · #166, 33y
Ulla · #166, 61y

Mikal was ranked #166 in Norway · Boys in 2001. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mikal and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mikal without appearing here.

Mikal moved ahead of

Justin Compare
In 1975 they stood at #605 and #555 in Norway · Boys; by 1976 that had become #306 and #513.
Ronald Compare
In 1984 they stood at #507 and #396 in Norway · Boys; by 1985 that had become #316 and #479.
Stig Compare
In 2000 they stood at #252 and #223 in Norway · Boys; by 2001 that had become #166 and #313.
Raymond Compare
In 1996 they stood at #269 and #257 in Norway · Boys; by 1997 that had become #215 and #349.

Moved ahead of Mikal

Edward Compare
In 2022 they stood at #296 and #377 in Norway · Boys; by 2023 that had become #521 and #220.
Ian Compare
In 2022 they stood at #296 and #327 in Norway · Boys; by 2023 that had become #521 and #275.
Tobias Compare
In 1976 they stood at #306 and #409 in Norway · Boys; by 1977 that had become #478 and #258.
Philip Compare
In 1978 they stood at #343 and #459 in Norway · Boys; by 1979 that had become #470 and #297.

Moved the opposite way to Mikal

Leo Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #247 to #410 while Leo went from #303 to #28.
Simon Compare
Between 1947 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #247 to #410 while Simon went from #359 to #159.
Stephen Compare
Between 1946 and 2001 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #336 to #166 while Stephen went from #352 to #522.
Birk Compare
Between 1990 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #235 to #410 while Birk went from #562 to #18.

Moved the same way as Mikal

Geir Compare
Between 1946 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #336 to #521 and Geir from #46 to #512.
Paul Compare
Between 1946 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #336 to #521 and Paul from #67 to #478.
Richard Compare
Between 1946 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #336 to #521 and Richard from #161 to #481.
Rune Compare
Between 1946 and 2023 in Norway · Boys, Mikal went from #336 to #521 and Rune from #99 to #483.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1946 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #166 in Norway in 2001. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Mikal

Mikal at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mikal across 2 official records

Mikal by decade in Norway · Boys

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Popularity data

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Mikal at a glance

Mikal across 2 official records

Mikal by decade in Norway · Boys

Mikal appears in

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