Meaning not yet researched.
Mitchell: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 245 in 2025. Its best rank was #71 in 1994.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #71 in 1994; #954 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mitchell in 2025 was a boy.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#954 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1994, at #71.
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Mitchell: US boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 245 boys in 2025. Peak: #71 in 1994 · most boys in one year: 5,370 (1994).
In 2025, 245 US boys were named Mitchell, making it the 954th most common boys’ name of the year, down 48 places from #906 in 2024. That is 14 fewer than the 259 boys named Mitchell in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #71, reached in 1994. That year also had the most boys given the name: 5,370. For comparison, it was #586 in 2015 and #181 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mitchell in every one of the 146 years from 1880 to 2025; in 1880 there were 32 babies with the name. In all, 165,191 US babies have been given the name, 0.7% of them girls and 99% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 42,222 babies named Mitchell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,366 US boys were named Mitchell; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 465. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,972 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mitchell ranked highest in Oklahoma in 2025, at #537 for boys there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mitchel (13,309 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mitchelle, Mitcheal and Mitchael are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Mitch.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in English. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mitchelle (662), Mitcheal (267), Mitchael (248), Mitchal (40), Mytchell (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 31 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Oklahoma | 8 | #537 | #682 |
| Michigan | 15 | #556 | #385 |
| Missouri | 10 | #585 | #418 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #608 | #525 |
| Maryland | 8 | #613 | #516 |
| Ohio | 16 | #614 | #464 |
| Kansas | 5 | #667 | — |
| Illinois | 13 | #698 | #493 |
| Louisiana | 6 | #739 | #567 |
| Georgia | 12 | #776 | #514 |
| North Carolina | 10 | #852 | #581 |
| Pennsylvania | 9 | #895 | #524 |
| Indiana | 6 | #919 | #613 |
| Virginia | 7 | #941 | #610 |
| Tennessee | 6 | #1,004 | #446 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,097 | #1,054 |
| Florida | 12 | #1,106 | #898 |
| New York | 10 | #1,182 | #688 |
| California | 15 | #1,284 | #890 |
| Texas | 14 | #1,389 | #772 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | — | — | 245 | #954 |
| 2024 | — | — | 259 | #906 |
| 2023 | — | — | 291 | #839 |
| 2022 | — | — | 305 | #816 |
| 2021 | — | — | 306 | #800 |
| 2020 | — | — | 342 | #726 |
| 2019 | — | — | 358 | #701 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,071 | 399 | #645 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,622 | 396 | #652 |
| 2016 | — | — | 465 | #590 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,290 | 473 | #586 |
| 2014 | 7 | #14,113 | 563 | #502 |
| 2013 | — | — | 616 | #457 |
| 2012 | — | — | 588 | #465 |
| 2011 | 9 | #11,864 | 667 | #419 |
| 2010 | 6 | #16,337 | 737 | #387 |
| 2009 | 11 | #10,445 | 855 | #359 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,340 | 979 | #335 |
| 2007 | 11 | #10,602 | 1,108 | #304 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,636 | 1,255 | #275 |
| 2005 | 15 | #7,793 | 1,447 | #236 |
| 2004 | 17 | #6,999 | 1,648 | #213 |
| 2003 | 9 | #11,024 | 1,891 | #196 |
| 2002 | 20 | #5,832 | 2,172 | #177 |
| 2001 | 21 | #5,501 | 2,568 | #156 |
| 2000 | 13 | #7,889 | 2,983 | #132 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,566 | 3,216 | #112 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,988 | 3,624 | #103 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,715 | 4,068 | #96 |
| 1996 | 20 | #4,999 | 4,391 | #88 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,166 | 4,737 | #79 |
| 1994 | 21 | #4,791 | 5,370 | #71 |
| 1993 | 36 | #3,203 | 4,584 | #81 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,929 | 4,122 | #91 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,297 | 3,882 | #96 |
| 1990 | 20 | #4,811 | 4,021 | #93 |
| 1989 | 26 | #3,856 | 3,645 | #93 |
| 1988 | 38 | #2,777 | 3,323 | #95 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,824 | 2,870 | #101 |
| 1986 | 35 | #2,763 | 2,664 | #105 |
| 1985 | 27 | #3,302 | 2,452 | #115 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,041 | 2,151 | #125 |
| 1983 | 23 | #3,505 | 1,878 | #143 |
| 1982 | 24 | #3,495 | 2,069 | #135 |
| 1981 | 28 | #3,118 | 1,969 | #140 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,141 | 1,521 | #164 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,993 | 1,368 | #174 |
| 1978 | 14 | #4,846 | 1,269 | #186 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,177 | 1,263 | #186 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,043 | 1,188 | #186 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,766 | 1,179 | #191 |
| 1974 | 22 | #3,180 | 1,231 | #183 |
| 1973 | 14 | #4,283 | 1,217 | #187 |
| 1972 | 16 | #3,829 | 1,366 | #179 |
| 1971 | 18 | #3,605 | 1,344 | #189 |
| 1970 | 18 | #3,526 | 1,541 | #179 |
| 1969 | 13 | #4,100 | 1,653 | #168 |
| 1968 | 12 | #4,153 | 1,622 | #166 |
| 1967 | 16 | #3,285 | 1,696 | #158 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,389 | 1,729 | #163 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,882 | 1,878 | #159 |
| 1964 | 8 | #5,316 | 2,384 | #137 |
| 1963 | 13 | #3,748 | 2,710 | #127 |
| 1962 | 18 | #3,001 | 2,832 | #128 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,165 | 3,201 | #118 |
| 1960 | 17 | #3,071 | 2,973 | #126 |
| 1959 | 10 | #4,217 | 2,964 | #127 |
| 1958 | 14 | #3,337 | 2,846 | #127 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,109 | 3,025 | #125 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,589 | 2,403 | #136 |
| 1955 | 8 | #4,622 | 2,274 | #137 |
| 1954 | 9 | #4,186 | 2,145 | #141 |
| 1953 | 9 | #4,139 | 1,884 | #151 |
| 1952 | 6 | #5,356 | 1,758 | #157 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,690 | 1,439 | #176 |
| 1950 | — | — | 1,224 | #181 |
| 1949 | — | — | 1,091 | #190 |
| 1948 | 9 | #3,790 | 861 | #217 |
| 1947 | 8 | #4,237 | 792 | #229 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,806 | 664 | #235 |
| 1945 | — | — | 518 | #254 |
| 1944 | 8 | #3,592 | 518 | #259 |
| 1943 | — | — | 513 | #268 |
| 1942 | — | — | 488 | #271 |
| 1941 | — | — | 355 | #305 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,747 | 325 | #312 |
| 1939 | — | — | 295 | #319 |
| 1938 | — | — | 287 | #328 |
| 1937 | — | — | 249 | #344 |
| 1936 | — | — | 271 | #333 |
| 1935 | 5 | #4,692 | 277 | #329 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,773 | 262 | #337 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,670 | 208 | #376 |
| 1932 | — | — | 249 | #350 |
| 1931 | 5 | #4,780 | 274 | #332 |
| 1930 | — | — | 247 | #364 |
| 1929 | — | — | 259 | #349 |
| 1928 | — | — | 314 | #317 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,151 | 297 | #333 |
| 1926 | 7 | #4,170 | 344 | #305 |
| 1925 | — | — | 346 | #306 |
| 1924 | — | — | 366 | #298 |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,479 | 372 | #290 |
| 1922 | 5 | #5,545 | 386 | #286 |
| 1921 | — | — | 425 | #271 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,281 | 415 | #271 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,124 | 361 | #278 |
| 1918 | 6 | #4,652 | 431 | #259 |
| 1917 | — | — | 380 | #261 |
| 1916 | — | — | 346 | #274 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,337 | 328 | #269 |
| 1914 | — | — | 272 | #264 |
| 1913 | 5 | #3,538 | 196 | #282 |
| 1912 | — | — | 137 | #315 |
| 1911 | — | — | 79 | #299 |
| 1910 | — | — | 82 | #273 |
| 1909 | — | — | 72 | #263 |
| 1908 | — | — | 54 | #300 |
| 1907 | — | — | 43 | #327 |
| 1906 | — | — | 39 | #334 |
| 1905 | — | — | 46 | #296 |
| 1904 | — | — | 37 | #332 |
| 1903 | — | — | 36 | #315 |
| 1902 | — | — | 50 | #265 |
| 1901 | — | — | 31 | #321 |
| 1900 | — | — | 52 | #289 |
| 1899 | — | — | 28 | #341 |
| 1898 | — | — | 39 | #301 |
| 1897 | — | — | 39 | #295 |
| 1896 | — | — | 37 | #309 |
| 1895 | — | — | 31 | #335 |
| 1894 | — | — | 39 | #284 |
| 1893 | — | — | 38 | #284 |
| 1892 | — | — | 36 | #309 |
| 1891 | — | — | 29 | #316 |
| 1890 | — | — | 30 | #319 |
| 1889 | — | — | 21 | #401 |
| 1888 | — | — | 44 | #271 |
| 1887 | — | — | 28 | #316 |
| 1886 | — | — | 24 | #353 |
| 1885 | — | — | 29 | #316 |
| 1884 | — | — | 34 | #299 |
| 1883 | — | — | 30 | #303 |
| 1882 | — | — | 36 | #286 |
| 1881 | — | — | 20 | #382 |
| 1880 | — | — | 32 | #298 |
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).