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Mikey

#2,631 in 2025Boys' name

Who is like God?, through Michael

Mikey has been given to 1,590 babies in the U.S. since 1922. In 2025 it ranked #2,631 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2025, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Mikey, 2025

1 in 66,300

Mikey over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mikey: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mikey means

Mikey belongs to the name family reached through Mikey → Michael. Its meaning is “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mikey is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Mikey is pronounced /ˈmaɪki/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,572 boys were recorded with the name Mikey between 1922 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 50 in 2025; its best national rank was #1,842 in 1952.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #3,316 in 2020 to #2,631 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #3,487 in 2015 to #2,631 in 2025.

In the United States, 18 girls were recorded with the name Mikey between 1945 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2025; its best national rank was #5,030 in 1945.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mikey?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 66,300
50 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 34,200
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#2,631
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
45,959 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mikey sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

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.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 45,959 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikey. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikeys were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikey was born before 2003 — so the typical Mikey is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
23.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
53.6%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,508
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 23.1% of all recorded uses (363).

Is Mikey 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
+354
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+685
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+856
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.56×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
100.0%
Peak was 2025 (50)
Years since peak
Peaking now
At its all-time high
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,842
1952

Spellings of Mikey

Mikey is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 33.0% against Mikey's 0.25%.

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 Mikey is used

Across 1910–2025, Mikey was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 144,194 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 50,000
  2. 2Kentucky1 in —
  3. 3New York1 in —
  4. 4Texas1 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. Mikey has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mikey around the world

Where Mikey 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 & Wales
    1996–2025
    #914
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1993–2025
    #495
    in 2025
  • Northern Ireland
    2007–2021
    #374
    in 2021
  • Ireland
    2001–2025
    #170
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2021
    #2,619
    in 2021
  • South Australia
    1992–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mikey by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#2,631
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 685
Best rank ever
#1,842
1952
Peak year
2025
50 that year
First recorded
1922
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,572
Count in 2025
50

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,589
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#5,030
1945
Peak year
2025
8 that year
First recorded
1945
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
18
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Mikey

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mikey

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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