Mitchell

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Mitchell is ranked 904th among boys in 2024 (258 births). Its best rank was 71st, in 1994.

Rank in 2024: #904down 66 from 2023
Births in 2024: 2580.02% of boys
Peak year: 19945,370 births
Best rank: #71in 1994
Since 1880: 164,941people given the name

Babies named Mitchell, by year of birthboys

The story in the numbers

163,813 boys have been named Mitchell in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1994, with 5,370 births — 0.28% of all boys recorded that year.

It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 502 → 904).

Half of everyone given the name was born by 1984, and the 1990s alone account for 26%. It has spent 145 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 10 of them in the top 100.

It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 1,128 girls have also been given it, 0.68% of the total.

Rank among boys, year by year

Higher on the chart = more popularrank (gaps = outside the top 1,000)

By decade

Decade	boys named Mitchell
1880s	298
1890s	346
1900s	460
1910s	2,612
1920s	3,524
1930s	2,619
1940s	6,124
1950s	21,962
1960s	22,676
1970s	12,966
1980s	24,543
1990s	42,015
2000s	16,905
2010s	5,262
2020s	1,501

In 1994, its biggest year

Mitchell was the 71st 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 Mitchell

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

Other spellings in the data

Mitchel13,276 ever

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.