Mickel
#10,331 in 2025Boys' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mickel has been given to 2,009 babies in the U.S. since 1914. In 2025 it ranked #10,331 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1957, with 54 recorded.
Babies named Mickel, 2025
1 in 474,000
Mickel over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Mickel?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 474,000
- 7 of 3,315,165 births
- Among boys only
- 1 in 244,000
- <0.01% of boys
- Rank, 2025
- #10,331
- of 13,926 boys’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 328,272 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mickel sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 328,272 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mickel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mickels were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mickel was born before 1969 — so the typical Mickel is around 56 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 22.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 14.9%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,768
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 22.8% of all recorded uses (448).
Is Mickel rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- −1,067
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,386
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.58×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 13.0%
- Peak was 1957 (54)
- Years since peak
- 68
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 26.3% average annual change
Spellings of Mickel
Mickel is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 85.7% against Mickel's 0.04%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Mickel is used
Across 1910–2025, Mickel was most concentrated in Mississippi — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 486,791 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Mississippi1 in 100,000
- 2California1 in —
- 3Florida1 in —
- 4Indiana1 in —
- 5Kentucky1 in —
- 6Louisiana1 in —
- 7Missouri1 in —
- 8New York1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Mickel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mickel around the world
Where Mickel ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- England & Wales2000–2018#4,749in 2018
- France1970–2022#7,122in 2022
- Canada1995–1999#1,766in 1999
- South Australia1960–1967#552in 1967
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mickel by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
As a boy's name
Names similar to Mickel
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mickel
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.