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Mikkel

#5,528 in 2025Boys' name

Who is like God?, through Michael

Mikkel has been given to 906 babies in the U.S. since 1947. In 2025 it ranked #5,528 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2004, with 29 recorded.

Babies named Mikkel, 2025

1 in 195,000

Mikkel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mikkel: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mikkel means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Mikkel is used in Danish and Norwegian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael and Mikael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 882 boys were recorded with the name Mikkel between 1947 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 29 in 2004; its best national rank was #2,903 in 1984.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,510 in 2020 to #5,528 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,000 in 2015 to #5,528 in 2025.

In the United States, 24 girls were recorded with the name Mikkel between 1982 and 1995. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1994; its best national rank was #11,266 in 1988.

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 Mikkel?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 100,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#5,528
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mikkel 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikkel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikkels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikkel was born before 2004 — so the typical Mikkel is around 21 today.

Median birth year
2004
About 21 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
27.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
58.8%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
872
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 27.9% of all recorded uses (246).

Is Mikkel 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
+1,167
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+982
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−528
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.89×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
58.6%
Peak was 2004 (29)
Years since peak
21
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
19.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,903
1984

Spellings of Mikkel

Mikkel is not the most common spelling — Mike is, with 41.6% against Mikkel's 0.18%.

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 Mikkel is used

Across 1910–2025, Mikkel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 544,772 across all states with data.

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 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. Mikkel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mikkel around the world

Where Mikkel 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
    1997–2022
    #4,002
    in 2022
  • France
    2020–2020
    #4,759
    in 2020
  • Norway
    1880–2025
    #34
    in 2025
  • Canada
    2002–2023
    #2,436
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1983–1983
    #443
    in 1983

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Norway, 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. SSB, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mikkel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#5,528
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 982
Best rank ever
#2,903
1984
Peak year
2004
29 that year
First recorded
1947
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
882
Count in 2025
17

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#11,266
1988
Peak year
1994
7 that year
First recorded
1982
Last recorded
1995
All-time count
24
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mikkel

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

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Sibling names for Mikkel

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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