Mitchel
Mitchel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 13 births. Its best rank was 486th, in 1958.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 130.00% of boys
- Peak year
- 1994407 births
- Best rank
- #486in 1958
- Since 1880
- 13,276people given the name
The story in the numbers
13,276 boys have been named Mitchel in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 407 births.
The name has all but left use: 13 births in 2024, against 407 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1980, and the 1990s alone account for 24%. It has spent 95 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mitchel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 37 | |
| 1890s | 68 | |
| 1900s | 81 | |
| 1910s | 411 | |
| 1920s | 531 | |
| 1930s | 399 | |
| 1940s | 716 | |
| 1950s | 1,838 | |
| 1960s | 1,633 | |
| 1970s | 884 | |
| 1980s | 1,774 | |
| 1990s | 3,204 | |
| 2000s | 1,311 | |
| 2010s | 318 | |
| 2020s | 71 |
In 1994, its biggest year
Mitchel was the 499th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1994 were Michael, Christopher, Matthew, Joshua and Tyler. See all of 1994.
Names that rose and fell with Mitchel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Mitchellpeak 1994
- Rubenpeak 1992
- Anthonypeak 1990
- Schuylerpeak 1993
- Victorpeak 1990
- Andrewpeak 1987
- Danielpeak 1985
- Claypeak 1960
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.