Meaning not yet researched.
Mickel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,021 in 1953.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,021 in 1953; #10,335 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mickel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#10,335 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1953, at #1,021.
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Mickel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 boys in 2025. Peak: #1,021 in 1953 · most boys in one year: 54 (1957).
In 2025, 7 US boys were named Mickel, making it the 10,335th most common boys’ name of the year. Its best rank for boys was #1,021, reached in 1953. The most boys given the name in a single year was 54, in 1957. For comparison, it was #6,950 in 2015 and #1,524 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mickel in 93 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1914 with 6 babies. In all, 2,009 US babies have been given the name, 2.3% of them girls and 98% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1950s, with 448 babies named Mickel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 66 US boys were named Mickel; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 14. In 2025 that was about 1 in 244,011 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikel (12,554 babies since 1880), Mikael (6,239 babies since 1880), Mykel (4,157 babies since 1880) and Mikal (3,925 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mickelle and Mickyle are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mickelle (144), Mickyle (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Mickel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 7 | #10,335 |
| 2023 | — | — | 7 | #10,425 |
| 2022 | — | — | 7 | #10,501 |
| 2021 | — | — | 9 | #8,609 |
| 2020 | — | — | 8 | #9,269 |
| 2018 | — | — | 8 | #9,370 |
| 2017 | — | — | 6 | #11,715 |
| 2016 | — | — | 14 | #6,236 |
| 2015 | — | — | 12 | #6,950 |
| 2014 | — | — | 11 | #7,375 |
| 2013 | — | — | 8 | #9,377 |
| 2012 | — | — | 14 | #6,208 |
| 2011 | — | — | 12 | #6,870 |
| 2010 | — | — | 11 | #7,416 |
| 2009 | — | — | 14 | #6,316 |
| 2008 | — | — | 32 | #3,471 |
| 2007 | — | — | 17 | #5,352 |
| 2006 | — | — | 13 | #6,347 |
| 2005 | — | — | 13 | #6,106 |
| 2004 | — | — | 16 | #5,176 |
| 2003 | — | — | 16 | #4,968 |
| 2002 | — | — | 11 | #6,380 |
| 2001 | — | — | 26 | #3,379 |
| 2000 | 6 | #14,402 | 19 | #4,161 |
| 1999 | — | — | 17 | #4,272 |
| 1998 | — | — | 26 | #3,066 |
| 1997 | — | — | 17 | #3,994 |
| 1996 | — | — | 18 | #3,779 |
| 1995 | — | — | 22 | #3,159 |
| 1994 | 6 | #12,850 | 21 | #3,297 |
| 1993 | 5 | #14,965 | 19 | #3,459 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,722 | 29 | #2,507 |
| 1991 | — | — | 26 | #2,659 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,365 | 18 | #3,413 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,815 | 10 | #5,058 |
| 1988 | — | — | 15 | #3,467 |
| 1987 | — | — | 14 | #3,457 |
| 1986 | — | — | 15 | #3,223 |
| 1985 | — | — | 15 | #3,169 |
| 1984 | — | — | 11 | #3,846 |
| 1983 | — | — | 16 | #2,873 |
| 1982 | — | — | 16 | #2,929 |
| 1981 | — | — | 25 | #2,123 |
| 1980 | — | — | 21 | #2,418 |
| 1979 | — | — | 21 | #2,348 |
| 1978 | — | — | 22 | #2,178 |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,310 | 25 | #1,983 |
| 1976 | 5 | #10,295 | 25 | #1,972 |
| 1975 | — | — | 34 | #1,553 |
| 1974 | — | — | 25 | #1,870 |
| 1973 | — | — | 28 | #1,687 |
| 1972 | — | — | 26 | #1,752 |
| 1971 | — | — | 33 | #1,509 |
| 1970 | — | — | 41 | #1,310 |
| 1969 | — | — | 38 | #1,294 |
| 1968 | — | — | 32 | #1,380 |
| 1967 | — | — | 33 | #1,332 |
| 1966 | — | — | 32 | #1,359 |
| 1965 | — | — | 32 | #1,371 |
| 1964 | — | — | 37 | #1,305 |
| 1963 | — | — | 38 | #1,269 |
| 1962 | — | — | 36 | #1,306 |
| 1961 | — | — | 33 | #1,398 |
| 1960 | — | — | 47 | #1,149 |
| 1959 | — | — | 52 | #1,076 |
| 1958 | — | — | 49 | #1,101 |
| 1957 | — | — | 54 | #1,038 |
| 1956 | — | — | 52 | #1,049 |
| 1955 | — | — | 42 | #1,159 |
| 1954 | — | — | 53 | #1,034 |
| 1953 | — | — | 51 | #1,021 |
| 1952 | — | — | 43 | #1,131 |
| 1951 | — | — | 28 | #1,423 |
| 1950 | — | — | 24 | #1,524 |
| 1949 | — | — | 30 | #1,335 |
| 1948 | — | — | 22 | #1,593 |
| 1947 | — | — | 14 | #2,140 |
| 1946 | — | — | 12 | #2,231 |
| 1945 | — | — | 11 | #2,211 |
| 1944 | — | — | 17 | #1,715 |
| 1943 | — | — | 6 | #3,442 |
| 1942 | — | — | 8 | #2,872 |
| 1941 | — | — | 6 | #3,386 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,784 |
| 1938 | — | — | 10 | #2,429 |
| 1937 | — | — | 5 | #3,860 |
| 1934 | — | — | 6 | #3,551 |
| 1933 | — | — | 10 | #2,485 |
| 1928 | — | — | 6 | #3,995 |
| 1924 | — | — | 6 | #4,182 |
| 1921 | — | — | 7 | #3,766 |
| 1920 | — | — | 7 | #3,712 |
| 1914 | — | — | 6 | #3,140 |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).