Meaning not yet researched.
Mitch: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 6 in 2025. Its best rank was #396 in 1961.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #396 in 1961; #11,548 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mitch in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,548 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1961, at #396.
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Mitch: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 6 boys in 2025. Peak: #396 in 1961 · most boys in one year: 400 (1961).
In 2025, 6 US boys were named Mitch, making it the 11,548th most common boys’ name of the year, down 3,416 places from #8,132 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 10 boys named Mitch in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #396, reached in 1961. That year also had the most boys given the name: 400. For comparison, it was #5,658 in 2015 and #1,930 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mitch in 89 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1916 with 5 babies. In all, 5,565 US babies have been given the name, all of them boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,012 babies named Mitch.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 119 US boys were named Mitch; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 284,679 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
The open nickname list we use links it to Mitchell.
Meaning not yet researched.
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No related spellings pass our data threshold.
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 6 | #11,548 |
| 2024 | — | — | 10 | #8,132 |
| 2023 | — | — | 12 | #7,159 |
| 2022 | — | — | 6 | #11,834 |
| 2021 | — | — | 7 | #10,433 |
| 2020 | — | — | 13 | #6,515 |
| 2019 | — | — | 10 | #8,018 |
| 2018 | — | — | 17 | #5,467 |
| 2017 | — | — | 21 | #4,689 |
| 2016 | — | — | 17 | #5,470 |
| 2015 | — | — | 16 | #5,658 |
| 2014 | — | — | 19 | #4,999 |
| 2013 | — | — | 11 | #7,381 |
| 2012 | — | — | 18 | #5,184 |
| 2011 | — | — | 23 | #4,310 |
| 2010 | — | — | 22 | #4,469 |
| 2009 | — | — | 21 | #4,693 |
| 2008 | — | — | 18 | #5,192 |
| 2007 | — | — | 28 | #3,761 |
| 2006 | — | — | 20 | #4,630 |
| 2005 | — | — | 34 | #3,064 |
| 2004 | — | — | 30 | #3,264 |
| 2003 | — | — | 30 | #3,169 |
| 2002 | — | — | 41 | #2,459 |
| 2001 | — | — | 39 | #2,513 |
| 2000 | — | — | 37 | #2,561 |
| 1999 | — | — | 36 | #2,500 |
| 1998 | — | — | 58 | #1,760 |
| 1997 | — | — | 46 | #1,988 |
| 1996 | — | — | 37 | #2,240 |
| 1995 | — | — | 56 | #1,639 |
| 1994 | — | — | 77 | #1,337 |
| 1993 | — | — | 65 | #1,457 |
| 1992 | — | — | 58 | #1,539 |
| 1991 | — | — | 60 | #1,477 |
| 1990 | — | — | 79 | #1,247 |
| 1989 | — | — | 93 | #1,101 |
| 1988 | — | — | 96 | #989 |
| 1987 | — | — | 80 | #1,071 |
| 1986 | — | — | 79 | #1,053 |
| 1985 | — | — | 81 | #1,018 |
| 1984 | — | — | 52 | #1,287 |
| 1983 | — | — | 62 | #1,152 |
| 1982 | — | — | 86 | #975 |
| 1981 | — | — | 71 | #1,081 |
| 1980 | — | — | 75 | #1,045 |
| 1979 | — | — | 51 | #1,297 |
| 1978 | — | — | 47 | #1,339 |
| 1977 | — | — | 35 | #1,597 |
| 1976 | — | — | 36 | #1,527 |
| 1975 | — | — | 40 | #1,394 |
| 1974 | — | — | 48 | #1,210 |
| 1973 | — | — | 41 | #1,305 |
| 1972 | — | — | 58 | #1,067 |
| 1971 | — | — | 49 | #1,175 |
| 1970 | — | — | 75 | #925 |
| 1969 | — | — | 67 | #939 |
| 1968 | — | — | 80 | #826 |
| 1967 | — | — | 73 | #840 |
| 1966 | — | — | 90 | #770 |
| 1965 | — | — | 131 | #652 |
| 1964 | — | — | 185 | #583 |
| 1963 | — | — | 304 | #453 |
| 1962 | — | — | 351 | #427 |
| 1961 | — | — | 400 | #396 |
| 1960 | — | — | 331 | #443 |
| 1959 | — | — | 295 | #463 |
| 1958 | — | — | 285 | #464 |
| 1957 | — | — | 207 | #540 |
| 1956 | — | — | 74 | #872 |
| 1955 | — | — | 68 | #905 |
| 1954 | — | — | 46 | #1,109 |
| 1953 | — | — | 31 | #1,371 |
| 1952 | — | — | 28 | #1,450 |
| 1951 | — | — | 26 | #1,478 |
| 1950 | — | — | 16 | #1,930 |
| 1949 | — | — | 19 | #1,742 |
| 1948 | — | — | 23 | #1,546 |
| 1947 | — | — | 15 | #2,047 |
| 1946 | — | — | 11 | #2,360 |
| 1945 | — | — | 10 | #2,344 |
| 1944 | — | — | 5 | #3,757 |
| 1943 | — | — | 7 | #3,144 |
| 1942 | — | — | 7 | #3,122 |
| 1940 | — | — | 5 | #3,788 |
| 1939 | — | — | 6 | #3,366 |
| 1934 | — | — | 5 | #4,041 |
| 1933 | — | — | 6 | #3,524 |
| 1916 | — | — | 5 | #4,303 |
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).