"Form of Michael"
The name Maykel is commonly a male name from the "Hebrew" origin.
Maykel is a respelling of Michael that writes the name the way it sounds: y stands in for the vowel and k replaces the ch. Spellings that swap k for ch in Michael also occur in Spanish- and Portuguese-language use, where Maikel is the more usual form. The two names are pronounced the same way; only the written form differs.
Michael means "Likeness to God.".
The pronunciation of Maykel is MAY-kel.
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