Mikal
given name · Latin script
Used for both men and women, depending on the country· national registers that list names by sex disagree
- Norway (SSB): listed as male
- United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male
- Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes
- Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 29 countries · latest register: SSB PxWebApi, 2025
Mikal is a given name used for both men and women, depending on the country, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- EREritrea≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- NONorway1 in 6K
- DKDenmark1 in 48K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 311 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
3,195 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Eritrea, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Cited for this meaning 1
Attested across 33 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mikal counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,195 | 1 in 104K | 2.5K | Mikal | 311 |
| PK Pakistan | — | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 217K | listed | Mikal | 7 |
| NO Norway | #646 | 916 | 1 in 6K | 3.3K | Mikal | 56 |
| ER Eritrea | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | 3.3K | — | 3 |
| IN India | — | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 2.2M | — | Mikal | 16 |
| SE Sweden | — | 187 | 1 in 55K | 187 | Mikal | 13 |
| DK Denmark | — | 122 | 1 in 48K | 111 | Mikal | 36 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈94 est. | ≈1 in 96K | — | Mikal | 7 |
3,195 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); The page presents a list of the most popular baby names in Eritrea, published by Names.org.; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); the pk-muslim-names-cc0 register. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mikal is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In ale, to play.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Isak Sabab. 1875NOnot in their usual nameSami politician, teacher, and poet (1875-1921)
- Hans Solsemb. 1912NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician (1912-1972)
- Mikal Kirkholtb. 1920NONorwegian cross-country skier
- Arent M. Henriksenb. 1946NOnot in their usual nameNorwegian politician
- Mikal Gilmoreb. 1951USAmerican writer
- Mikal Wattsb. 1967USAmerican politician
- Hugo Mikal Skårb. 1978PTNorwegian actor
- Mikal Croninb. 1985USAmerican musician
- Mark Tyndaleb. 1986USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player and coach (born 1986)
- Mikal Bridgesb. 1996USAmerican basketball player (born 1996)
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)51 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 29 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 3.3K | #800 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2.5K | #5,392 |
| NO Norway | SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891) | 2025 | 916 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 653 | #5,392 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 187 | #5,487 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 126 | #6,606 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 111 | #1,339 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 106 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 31 | — |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 11 | #7,708 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2020 | 8 | — |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navn (1880–present) | 2025 | 7 | — |
Reference works 4
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mikal a male or female name?
- Mikal is used for both men and women, depending on the country. National registers that list names by sex disagree: Norway (SSB): listed as male; United States (Census Bureau, 2020): listed as male; Brazil (IBGE): listed under both sexes; Netherlands (Meertens NVB): listed under both sexes. We don't publish a percentage split.
- In which country does Mikal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.2 thousand people named Mikal, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikal.
- How common is the name Mikal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,195 people named Mikal in 2020, about 1 in 104 thousand residents.
- How common is Mikal compared with other names?
- In Norway, Mikal is the 646th most common given name of 25,788 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Mikal?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikalThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mikal” — the 646th most common given name in Norway. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.