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Mitul

Boys' name

(that which) causes binding, through मितुल

Mitul has been given to 95 babies in the U.S. since 1974. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1991, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mitul, 2001

1 in 748,000

Mitul over time, 1880–2025

Boys
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mitul: meaning, origin, and history

(that which) causes binding, through मितुल

Hindi

What Mitul means

Mitul belongs to the name family reached through Mitul → मितुल → मित्र. Its meaning is “(that which) causes binding”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mitul is used in English. Its origins include Hindi.

Mitul comes through Hindi मितुल.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include म, मितुल and मित्र.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 95 boys were recorded with the name Mitul between 1974 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 10 in 1991; its best national rank was #5,040 in 1974.

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 Mitul?

Mitul had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2001, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2001
1 in 748,000
5 of 3,742,181 births
Among boys only
1 in 388,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2001
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
518,778 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mitul 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 2001 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 518,778 children born in 2001 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mitul. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mituls were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mitul was born before 1985 — so the typical Mitul is around 40 today.

Median birth year
1985
About 40 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
37.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
93.7%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 37.9% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Mitul 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1991 (10)
Years since peak
34
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
12.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,040
1974

Spellings of Mitul

Mitul is not the most common spelling — Miguel is, with 78.7% against Mitul'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.

Mitul around the world

Where Mitul 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
    1996–2006
    #2,870
    in 2006

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0.

Mitul by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#5,040
1974
Peak year
1991
10 that year
First recorded
1974
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
95
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mitul

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

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Sibling names for Mitul

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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