Meaning not yet researched.
Mike: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 163 in 2025. Its best rank was #36 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #36 in 1961; #1,234 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mike in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,234 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #36.
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Mike: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 163 boys in 2025. Peak: #36 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 12,045 (1960).
In 2025, 163 US boys were named Mike, making it the 1,234th most common boys’ name of the year, down 224 places from #1,010 in 2024. That is 59 fewer than the 222 boys named Mike in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #36, reached in 1961. The most boys given the name in a single year was 12,045, in 1960. For comparison, it was #1,034 in 2015 and #113 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mike in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 95 babies with the name. In all, 206,523 US babies have been given the name, 0.3% of them girls and 99.6% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 71,651 babies named Mike.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,887 US boys were named Mike; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 222. In 2025 that was about 1 in 10,479 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mike ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #525 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mieke, Myke and Miche are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Michael, Mick and Micky.
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Dutch. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mieke (260), Myke (79), Miche (73), Mic (26), Mich (22), Meike (20), Maik (17), Mayk (7), Mik (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.
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 34 | #525 | #642 |
| New Jersey | 10 | #684 | #448 |
| New York | 21 | #706 | #754 |
| North Carolina | 8 | #993 | — |
| Michigan | 5 | #1,216 | #1,192 |
| California | 16 | #1,224 | #703 |
| Texas | 17 | #1,241 | #1,028 |
| Illinois | 5 | #1,424 | #1,477 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 163 | #1,234 |
| 2024 | — | — | 222 | #1,010 |
| 2023 | — | — | 206 | #1,059 |
| 2022 | — | — | 211 | #1,047 |
| 2021 | — | — | 161 | #1,204 |
| 2020 | — | — | 168 | #1,156 |
| 2019 | — | — | 176 | #1,116 |
| 2018 | — | — | 171 | #1,132 |
| 2017 | — | — | 219 | #952 |
| 2016 | — | — | 190 | #1,043 |
| 2015 | — | — | 196 | #1,034 |
| 2014 | — | — | 216 | #972 |
| 2013 | — | — | 236 | #884 |
| 2012 | — | — | 245 | #861 |
| 2011 | — | — | 239 | #876 |
| 2010 | — | — | 242 | #871 |
| 2009 | — | — | 260 | #834 |
| 2008 | — | — | 293 | #760 |
| 2007 | — | — | 292 | #754 |
| 2006 | — | — | 329 | #686 |
| 2005 | — | — | 300 | #690 |
| 2004 | — | — | 338 | #625 |
| 2003 | — | — | 322 | #640 |
| 2002 | — | — | 342 | #597 |
| 2001 | — | — | 315 | #614 |
| 2000 | — | — | 329 | #601 |
| 1999 | — | — | 284 | #632 |
| 1998 | — | — | 290 | #627 |
| 1997 | — | — | 335 | #564 |
| 1996 | — | — | 362 | #534 |
| 1995 | — | — | 332 | #563 |
| 1994 | 5 | #14,937 | 289 | #616 |
| 1993 | — | — | 289 | #613 |
| 1992 | — | — | 351 | #544 |
| 1991 | — | — | 375 | #514 |
| 1990 | — | — | 380 | #506 |
| 1989 | — | — | 402 | #475 |
| 1988 | 6 | #11,270 | 381 | #468 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,446 | 310 | #510 |
| 1986 | — | — | 322 | #487 |
| 1985 | — | — | 351 | #459 |
| 1984 | — | — | 292 | #492 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,785 | 311 | #479 |
| 1982 | — | — | 325 | #470 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,505 | 408 | #404 |
| 1980 | — | — | 407 | #402 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,748 | 438 | #386 |
| 1978 | — | — | 438 | #367 |
| 1977 | 5 | #10,663 | 521 | #345 |
| 1976 | 7 | #7,826 | 591 | #302 |
| 1975 | 9 | #6,273 | 681 | #280 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,643 | 814 | #245 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,149 | 1,040 | #208 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,988 | 1,392 | #178 |
| 1971 | 10 | #5,376 | 1,923 | #153 |
| 1970 | 24 | #2,907 | 2,466 | #136 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,558 | 2,870 | #112 |
| 1968 | 17 | #3,265 | 3,214 | #93 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,517 | 3,757 | #84 |
| 1966 | 13 | #3,683 | 4,526 | #69 |
| 1965 | 22 | #2,659 | 6,035 | #51 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,799 | 7,767 | #47 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,835 | 9,045 | #44 |
| 1962 | 16 | #3,253 | 10,530 | #39 |
| 1961 | 25 | #2,452 | 11,667 | #36 |
| 1960 | 24 | #2,488 | 12,045 | #36 |
| 1959 | 26 | #2,272 | 11,995 | #37 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,432 | 10,779 | #40 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,616 | 7,247 | #53 |
| 1956 | 12 | #3,630 | 3,900 | #97 |
| 1955 | 10 | #3,974 | 2,732 | #123 |
| 1954 | 12 | #3,441 | 2,502 | #130 |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,887 | 2,277 | #136 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,790 | 2,101 | #136 |
| 1951 | 10 | #3,646 | 2,198 | #128 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,209 | 2,614 | #113 |
| 1949 | 9 | #3,806 | 3,742 | #88 |
| 1948 | 13 | #2,923 | 5,045 | #68 |
| 1947 | 20 | #2,262 | 5,750 | #65 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,070 | 4,854 | #64 |
| 1945 | 17 | #2,128 | 3,592 | #69 |
| 1944 | 16 | #2,260 | 3,084 | #80 |
| 1943 | 6 | #4,540 | 2,803 | #90 |
| 1942 | 11 | #2,938 | 2,293 | #106 |
| 1941 | 8 | #3,462 | 1,933 | #111 |
| 1940 | 8 | #3,421 | 1,549 | #122 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,728 | 1,348 | #129 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,782 | 1,055 | #154 |
| 1937 | — | — | 871 | #168 |
| 1936 | — | — | 774 | #174 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,690 | 728 | #184 |
| 1934 | — | — | 650 | #193 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,665 | 574 | #203 |
| 1932 | — | — | 624 | #207 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,773 | 693 | #190 |
| 1930 | 9 | #3,247 | 711 | #197 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,864 | 696 | #195 |
| 1928 | 6 | #4,556 | 761 | #187 |
| 1927 | — | — | 800 | #180 |
| 1926 | 8 | #3,792 | 857 | #170 |
| 1925 | 6 | #4,785 | 908 | #164 |
| 1924 | 10 | #3,299 | 963 | #164 |
| 1923 | — | — | 1,006 | #155 |
| 1922 | — | — | 931 | #163 |
| 1921 | — | — | 1,080 | #145 |
| 1920 | — | — | 1,074 | #141 |
| 1919 | 5 | #5,334 | 1,122 | #132 |
| 1918 | 5 | #5,346 | 1,287 | #127 |
| 1917 | — | — | 1,181 | #126 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,928 | 1,114 | #125 |
| 1915 | — | — | 1,029 | #129 |
| 1914 | — | — | 794 | #129 |
| 1913 | — | — | 520 | #145 |
| 1912 | — | — | 430 | #144 |
| 1911 | — | — | 243 | #138 |
| 1910 | — | — | 222 | #143 |
| 1909 | — | — | 167 | #152 |
| 1908 | — | — | 139 | #167 |
| 1907 | — | — | 157 | #147 |
| 1906 | — | — | 141 | #146 |
| 1905 | — | — | 117 | #167 |
| 1904 | — | — | 118 | #161 |
| 1903 | — | — | 113 | #157 |
| 1902 | — | — | 99 | #173 |
| 1901 | — | — | 98 | #158 |
| 1900 | — | — | 132 | #159 |
| 1899 | — | — | 83 | #176 |
| 1898 | — | — | 106 | #160 |
| 1897 | — | — | 92 | #168 |
| 1896 | — | — | 85 | #193 |
| 1895 | — | — | 85 | #186 |
| 1894 | — | — | 87 | #173 |
| 1893 | — | — | 67 | #207 |
| 1892 | — | — | 76 | #199 |
| 1891 | — | — | 64 | #196 |
| 1890 | — | — | 83 | #170 |
| 1889 | — | — | 72 | #186 |
| 1888 | — | — | 81 | #185 |
| 1887 | — | — | 73 | #175 |
| 1886 | — | — | 84 | #166 |
| 1885 | — | — | 84 | #159 |
| 1884 | — | — | 84 | #166 |
| 1883 | — | — | 73 | #170 |
| 1882 | — | — | 89 | #156 |
| 1881 | — | — | 44 | #231 |
| 1880 | — | — | 95 | #143 |
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).