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Mitch

#11,544 in 2025Boys' name

Big, through Mitchell

Mitch has been given to 5,565 babies in the U.S. since 1916. In 2025 it ranked #11,544 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 1961, with 400 recorded.

Babies named Mitch, 2025

1 in 553,000

Mitch over time, 1880–2025

Boys
010020030040018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mitch: meaning, origin, and history

Big, through Mitchell

English

What Mitch means

Mitch belongs to the name family reached through Mitch → Mitchell. Its meaning is “big”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mitch is used in English, Cebuano and Tagalog. Its origins include English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mitchell.

Pronunciation and spelling

In English, Mitch is pronounced /mɪt͡ʃ/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 5,565 boys were recorded with the name Mitch between 1916 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 400 in 1961; its best national rank was #396 in 1961.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,511 in 2020 to #11,544 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,654 in 2015 to #11,544 in 2025.

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 Mitch?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,544
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mitch 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitch. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mitchs were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitch was born before 1965 — so the typical Mitch is around 60 today.

Median birth year
1965
About 60 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
36.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.8%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
5,441
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 36.2% of all recorded uses (2,012).

Is Mitch 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
−3,417
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,033
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,890
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.38×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
1.5%
Peak was 1961 (400)
Years since peak
64
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
31.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#396
1961

Spellings of Mitch

Mitch is not the most common spelling — Micah is, with 73.0% against Mitch's 3.4%.

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 Mitch is used

Across 1910–2025, Mitch was most concentrated in Utah — about 1 in 14,286 boys, against 1 in 56,978 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

07 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Utah1 in 14,286
  2. 2Nebraska1 in 20,000
  3. 3California1 in 25,000
  4. 4Oregon1 in 25,000
  5. 5Washington1 in 25,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 33,333
  7. 7Iowa1 in 33,333
  8. 8Kansas1 in 33,333

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

Mitch around the world

Where Mitch 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
    1996–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • Scotland
    2002–2016
    #592
    in 2016
  • France
    1983–2019
    #6,941
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2023
    #2,747
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1984–2013
    #317
    in 2013

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS 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.

Notable people named Mitch

People whose public names include Mitch, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Mitch by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,544
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,033
Best rank ever
#396
1961
Peak year
1961
400 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
5,565
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Mitch

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

MitchelDutchButchHutchMitsuoMithranMitulKetchMiteshMitchellMitsuruMitchealMitchaelMithcellMittMitsugiMithunMithilMitClutchMitchumMitchalHatchMitansh

Names with a curve like Mitch

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mitch, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

DerwinRussTimmieDinoRaynardKirtKipChipTodRitchieDirkKraig

Sibling names for Mitch

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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