Meaning not yet researched.
Mikel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 81 in 2025. Its best rank was #513 in 1953.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #513 in 1953; #1,930 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,930 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1953, at #513.
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Mikel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 81 boys in 2025. Peak: #513 in 1953 · most boys in one year: 201 (2004).
In 2025, 81 US boys were named Mikel, making it the 1,930th most common boys’ name of the year, down 141 places from #1,789 in 2024. That is 11 fewer than the 92 boys named Mikel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #513, reached in 1953. The most boys given the name in a single year was 201, in 2004. For comparison, it was #1,229 in 2015 and #710 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikel in 105 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1882 with 5 babies. In all, 12,554 US babies have been given the name, 7.9% of them girls and 92% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 1,948 babies named Mikel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,186 US boys were named Mikel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 154. In 2025 that was about 1 in 21,087 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikel ranked highest in North Carolina in 2025, at #1,407 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), Miguel (191,562 babies since 1880), Miquel (2,123 babies since 1880) and Mickel (2,009 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mikeal, Mikell and Mykell are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Rare spellings summarised here: Mikeal (2,405), Mikell (2,067), Mykell (1,068), Mickeal (1,046), Mikelle (994), Mykael (670), Mical (523), Mikale (413), Mikaeel (372), Mikyle (255), Mickell (187), Mikaele (158), and more.
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 Mikel in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US boys. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five boys got the name, so 46 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| North Carolina | 5 | #1,407 | #879 |
| Florida | 8 | #1,434 | #737 |
| Texas | 11 | #1,621 | #961 |
| California | 8 | #1,937 | #1,247 |
| New York | 5 | #1,951 | #1,215 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 81 | #1,930 |
| 2024 | — | — | 92 | #1,789 |
| 2023 | — | — | 107 | #1,629 |
| 2022 | — | — | 116 | #1,547 |
| 2021 | — | — | 111 | #1,571 |
| 2020 | — | — | 120 | #1,447 |
| 2019 | — | — | 121 | #1,447 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,131 | 154 | #1,217 |
| 2017 | — | — | 138 | #1,311 |
| 2016 | — | — | 146 | #1,259 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,269 | 149 | #1,229 |
| 2014 | — | — | 165 | #1,149 |
| 2013 | 6 | #15,919 | 155 | #1,165 |
| 2012 | — | — | 157 | #1,165 |
| 2011 | 7 | #14,337 | 159 | #1,139 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,481 | 172 | #1,112 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,134 | 166 | #1,116 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,993 | 182 | #1,045 |
| 2007 | 9 | #12,338 | 184 | #1,025 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,093 | 188 | #992 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,264 | 181 | #966 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,995 | 201 | #872 |
| 2003 | 15 | #7,466 | 166 | #971 |
| 2002 | 12 | #8,652 | 169 | #951 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,499 | 180 | #879 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,096 | 188 | #852 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,737 | 187 | #818 |
| 1998 | 21 | #5,073 | 169 | #860 |
| 1997 | 27 | #4,091 | 159 | #877 |
| 1996 | 24 | #4,410 | 170 | #839 |
| 1995 | 19 | #5,159 | 149 | #902 |
| 1994 | 25 | #4,207 | 153 | #867 |
| 1993 | 24 | #4,336 | 189 | #762 |
| 1992 | 21 | #4,801 | 155 | #851 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,438 | 186 | #749 |
| 1990 | 22 | #4,470 | 182 | #756 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,855 | 198 | #699 |
| 1988 | 19 | #4,599 | 161 | #747 |
| 1987 | 25 | #3,593 | 136 | #796 |
| 1986 | 16 | #4,889 | 136 | #778 |
| 1985 | 14 | #5,248 | 157 | #703 |
| 1984 | 18 | #4,267 | 126 | #771 |
| 1983 | 29 | #2,956 | 141 | #728 |
| 1982 | 44 | #2,272 | 131 | #769 |
| 1981 | 11 | #6,169 | 126 | #777 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,665 | 126 | #781 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,301 | 133 | #752 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,722 | 132 | #734 |
| 1977 | 21 | #3,566 | 130 | #750 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,041 | 129 | #735 |
| 1975 | 24 | #3,020 | 132 | #721 |
| 1974 | 30 | #2,536 | 134 | #711 |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,089 | 106 | #775 |
| 1972 | 11 | #4,989 | 113 | #748 |
| 1971 | 15 | #4,061 | 126 | #738 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,672 | 126 | #733 |
| 1969 | 22 | #2,889 | 120 | #716 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,149 | 107 | #725 |
| 1967 | 13 | #3,778 | 105 | #724 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,274 | 87 | #783 |
| 1965 | — | — | 103 | #733 |
| 1964 | 16 | #3,337 | 109 | #738 |
| 1963 | 17 | #3,149 | 112 | #734 |
| 1962 | — | — | 139 | #660 |
| 1961 | — | — | 136 | #670 |
| 1960 | 6 | #6,167 | 126 | #700 |
| 1959 | 7 | #5,392 | 148 | #637 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,884 | 178 | #581 |
| 1957 | — | — | 194 | #557 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,368 | 186 | #557 |
| 1955 | — | — | 153 | #597 |
| 1954 | — | — | 140 | #625 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,137 | 190 | #513 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,791 | 104 | #684 |
| 1951 | — | — | 116 | #653 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,210 | 94 | #710 |
| 1949 | 6 | #5,072 | 78 | #780 |
| 1948 | — | — | 63 | #866 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,120 | 70 | #834 |
| 1946 | 9 | #3,585 | 56 | #887 |
| 1945 | — | — | 39 | #1,026 |
| 1944 | 6 | #4,392 | 33 | #1,166 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,147 | 35 | #1,166 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,138 | 23 | #1,486 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,850 | 16 | #1,805 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,745 | 17 | #1,726 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,729 | 14 | #1,937 |
| 1938 | — | — | 8 | #2,795 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,301 | 11 | #2,256 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,035 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,521 |
| 1930 | — | — | 6 | #3,872 |
| 1929 | — | — | 7 | #3,446 |
| 1927 | — | — | 6 | #4,046 |
| 1926 | — | — | 6 | #4,038 |
| 1925 | — | — | 5 | #4,674 |
| 1923 | — | — | 9 | #3,092 |
| 1922 | — | — | 5 | #4,747 |
| 1920 | — | — | 8 | #3,396 |
| 1918 | — | — | 5 | #4,586 |
| 1917 | — | — | 7 | #3,447 |
| 1916 | — | — | 11 | #2,488 |
| 1915 | — | — | 7 | #3,279 |
| 1913 | — | — | 5 | #3,112 |
| 1882 | — | — | 5 | #1,045 |
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).