How rare is the name Mitchel?

10,351 people in the United States have the first name Mitchel, about 1 in 29,179. It ranks #2,404 of 53,615 first names in the 2020 Census.

first name

MITCHEL

#2,404

of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census

People
10,351
About
1 in 29,179
This common or more
79.7%
Who bears it

Of the 10,351 people named Mitchel, 81.4% reported their origin as White, 7.8% as Hispanic or Latino and 4.8% as Black. 98% are male. These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.

Mitchel peaked in 1994, when 407 babies got the name.

Births per year, SSA records 1880–2025
18802025
Peak year
1994
Births that year
407
In 2025*
10 ▼98%
Recorded as
almost entirely male

At least 13,309 babies have been given the name since 1880. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.

Mitchel by decade

Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1950s, when it ranked #1,226. The largest share of babies named Mitchel, 30.6%, were born between 1981 and 1996, as millennials.

1880s#1,91637
1890s#1,92568
1900s#2,15681
1910s#1,751411
1920s#1,909531
1930s#2,057399
1940s#1,678716
1950s#1,2261,838
1960s#1,3711,633
1970s#2,098884
1980s#1,5531,786
1990s#1,2623,204
2000s#2,7371,321
2010s#7,680318
2020s#13,26582
Before 19010.8%
Greatest Generation 1901–277%
Silent Generation 1928–456.2%
Baby boom 1946–6424.3%
Generation X 1965–8012%
Millennials 1981–9630.6%
Generation Z 1997–1217.1%
2013 and later1.9%

Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.

Where Mitchel is most common

Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mitchel has been most common in Minnesota (2.9×), Wisconsin (2.6×), and Iowa (2.3×), and least common in Massachusetts (0.23×).

7,888 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.

Either side of Mitchel

#2,402 Lauri · 10,367#2,403 Coleen · 10,357#2,405 Ansley · 10,343#2,406 Aylin · 10,342

Spelled almost the same

5 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mitchel, most common first.

#458 Mitchell · 124,130#13,566 Mitchelle · 887#35,789 Mitchael · 224#37,508 Mitcheal · 208#49,963 Mitchal · 122

Also a last name

As a last name, Mitchel ranks #7,805 of 156,621, with 4,077 people. See Mitchel as a last name

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