Meaning not yet researched.
Mitchel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 10 in 2025. Its best rank was #486 in 1958.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #486 in 1958; #8,037 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mitchel in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#8,037 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1958, at #486.
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Mitchel: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 10 boys in 2025. Peak: #486 in 1958 · most boys in one year: 407 (1994).
In 2025, 10 US boys were named Mitchel, making it the 8,037th most common boys’ name of the year, down 1,664 places from #6,373 in 2024. That is 4 fewer than the 14 boys named Mitchel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #486, reached in 1958. The most boys given the name in a single year was 407, in 1994. For comparison, it was #4,497 in 2015 and #618 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mitchel in 139 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 13,309 US babies have been given the name, 0.2% of them girls and 99.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 3,204 babies named Mitchel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 180 US boys were named Mitchel; the busiest of those years was 2018, with 25. In 2025 that was about 1 in 170,808 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Miguel (191,562 babies since 1880), Mitchell (165,191 babies since 1880) and Michel (14,094 babies since 1880).
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.
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 Mitchel 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 | — | — | 10 | #8,037 |
| 2024 | — | — | 14 | #6,373 |
| 2023 | — | — | 18 | #5,398 |
| 2022 | — | — | 14 | #6,373 |
| 2021 | — | — | 12 | #6,964 |
| 2020 | — | — | 14 | #6,188 |
| 2019 | — | — | 23 | #4,431 |
| 2018 | — | — | 25 | #4,178 |
| 2017 | — | — | 25 | #4,193 |
| 2016 | — | — | 25 | #4,165 |
| 2015 | — | — | 22 | #4,497 |
| 2014 | — | — | 30 | #3,590 |
| 2013 | — | — | 27 | #3,823 |
| 2012 | — | — | 36 | #3,153 |
| 2011 | — | — | 56 | #2,303 |
| 2010 | — | — | 49 | #2,538 |
| 2009 | — | — | 77 | #1,882 |
| 2008 | — | — | 88 | #1,730 |
| 2007 | — | — | 84 | #1,767 |
| 2006 | — | — | 103 | #1,485 |
| 2005 | 5 | #18,314 | 117 | #1,306 |
| 2004 | 5 | #17,926 | 124 | #1,230 |
| 2003 | — | — | 150 | #1,042 |
| 2002 | — | — | 173 | #927 |
| 2001 | — | — | 170 | #918 |
| 2000 | — | — | 225 | #752 |
| 1999 | — | — | 246 | #686 |
| 1998 | — | — | 274 | #643 |
| 1997 | — | — | 299 | #594 |
| 1996 | — | — | 323 | #567 |
| 1995 | — | — | 366 | #528 |
| 1994 | — | — | 407 | #499 |
| 1993 | — | — | 375 | #531 |
| 1992 | — | — | 289 | #607 |
| 1991 | — | — | 313 | #571 |
| 1990 | — | — | 312 | #574 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,830 | 269 | #597 |
| 1988 | — | — | 247 | #595 |
| 1987 | 6 | #10,773 | 236 | #589 |
| 1986 | — | — | 199 | #634 |
| 1985 | — | — | 161 | #695 |
| 1984 | — | — | 163 | #678 |
| 1983 | — | — | 132 | #754 |
| 1982 | — | — | 135 | #758 |
| 1981 | — | — | 130 | #767 |
| 1980 | — | — | 102 | #890 |
| 1979 | — | — | 89 | #933 |
| 1978 | — | — | 88 | #925 |
| 1977 | — | — | 67 | #1,060 |
| 1976 | — | — | 80 | #936 |
| 1975 | — | — | 94 | #860 |
| 1974 | — | — | 76 | #940 |
| 1973 | — | — | 86 | #858 |
| 1972 | — | — | 107 | #775 |
| 1971 | — | — | 100 | #809 |
| 1970 | — | — | 97 | #823 |
| 1969 | — | — | 103 | #769 |
| 1968 | — | — | 130 | #663 |
| 1967 | — | — | 107 | #717 |
| 1966 | — | — | 144 | #618 |
| 1965 | — | — | 128 | #657 |
| 1964 | — | — | 179 | #591 |
| 1963 | — | — | 197 | #564 |
| 1962 | — | — | 203 | #554 |
| 1961 | — | — | 217 | #540 |
| 1960 | — | — | 225 | #529 |
| 1959 | — | — | 252 | #494 |
| 1958 | — | — | 260 | #486 |
| 1957 | — | — | 202 | #544 |
| 1956 | — | — | 196 | #537 |
| 1955 | — | — | 192 | #531 |
| 1954 | — | — | 155 | #595 |
| 1953 | — | — | 161 | #561 |
| 1952 | — | — | 161 | #552 |
| 1951 | — | — | 135 | #600 |
| 1950 | — | — | 124 | #618 |
| 1949 | — | — | 118 | #631 |
| 1948 | — | — | 101 | #672 |
| 1947 | — | — | 82 | #761 |
| 1946 | — | — | 78 | #750 |
| 1945 | — | — | 57 | #836 |
| 1944 | — | — | 56 | #850 |
| 1943 | — | — | 69 | #793 |
| 1942 | — | — | 56 | #886 |
| 1941 | — | — | 55 | #853 |
| 1940 | — | — | 44 | #978 |
| 1939 | — | — | 41 | #1,002 |
| 1938 | — | — | 47 | #925 |
| 1937 | — | — | 33 | #1,158 |
| 1936 | — | — | 28 | #1,263 |
| 1935 | — | — | 39 | #1,037 |
| 1934 | — | — | 50 | #894 |
| 1933 | — | — | 36 | #1,100 |
| 1932 | — | — | 40 | #1,073 |
| 1931 | — | — | 45 | #993 |
| 1930 | — | — | 40 | #1,108 |
| 1929 | — | — | 45 | #1,023 |
| 1928 | — | — | 45 | #1,038 |
| 1927 | — | — | 52 | #972 |
| 1926 | — | — | 60 | #871 |
| 1925 | — | — | 55 | #912 |
| 1924 | — | — | 47 | #1,041 |
| 1923 | — | — | 48 | #1,020 |
| 1922 | — | — | 60 | #902 |
| 1921 | — | — | 56 | #946 |
| 1920 | — | — | 63 | #860 |
| 1919 | — | — | 61 | #845 |
| 1918 | — | — | 56 | #892 |
| 1917 | — | — | 48 | #930 |
| 1916 | — | — | 47 | #934 |
| 1915 | — | — | 53 | #852 |
| 1914 | — | — | 47 | #774 |
| 1913 | — | — | 36 | #794 |
| 1912 | — | — | 34 | #747 |
| 1911 | — | — | 19 | #749 |
| 1910 | — | — | 10 | #1,094 |
| 1909 | — | — | 9 | #1,058 |
| 1908 | — | — | 12 | #811 |
| 1907 | — | — | 16 | #654 |
| 1906 | — | — | 6 | #1,204 |
| 1905 | — | — | 6 | #1,191 |
| 1904 | — | — | 10 | #796 |
| 1903 | — | — | 9 | #825 |
| 1902 | — | — | 7 | #993 |
| 1901 | — | — | 6 | #1,024 |
| 1898 | — | — | 5 | #1,245 |
| 1897 | — | — | 7 | #908 |
| 1896 | — | — | 8 | #872 |
| 1895 | — | — | 10 | #732 |
| 1894 | — | — | 6 | #1,042 |
| 1893 | — | — | 10 | #691 |
| 1892 | — | — | 11 | #671 |
| 1891 | — | — | 6 | #922 |
| 1890 | — | — | 5 | #1,107 |
| 1889 | — | — | 9 | #708 |
| 1888 | — | — | 7 | #886 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #1,001 |
| 1882 | — | — | 10 | #633 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #880 |
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).