Gender Feminine & Masculine
Usage American (Modern, Rare)
Meaning & History
A concatenation of Michael with the initial T (the phonetic element /ti/). In the case of American actor Mykelti Williamson (1957-), who is of African American descent and self-identifies as being of partial Blackfoot descent, he has claimed that his name means "spirit" in the Blackfoot language, but this is untrue. A female bearer is American television personality Mykelti Brown (1996-), one of the daughters of fundamentalist Mormon polygamist Kody Brown.