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Satchel

Boys' name

Sack, bag

Satchel has been given to 548 babies in the U.S. since 1988. 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 1998, with 40 recorded.

Babies named Satchel, 2022

1 in 677,000

Satchel over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Satchel: meaning, origin, and history

Sack, bag

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Satchel means

Satchel means “sack, bag”.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Satchel is used in English (Rare).

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˈsæt͡ʃ.əl/ for Satchel.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 548 boys were recorded with the name Satchel between 1988 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 40 in 1998; its best national rank was #2,263 in 1998.

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.

How common is Satchel?

Satchel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Satchel 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Satchel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Satchels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Satchel was born before 2001 — so the typical Satchel is around 24 today.

Median birth year
2001
About 24 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
44.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
68.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
548
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 44.0% of all recorded uses (241).

Is Satchel 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1998 (40)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,263
1998

Spellings of Satchel

Satchel is not the most common spelling — Mitchel is, with 77.1% against Satchel's 3.2%.

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 Satchel is used

Across 1910–2025, Satchel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 601,128 across all states with data.

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

Satchel around the world

Where Satchel 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.

  • France
    1993–1994
    #2,684
    in 1994
  • Canada
    1995–1995
    #1,710
    in 1995

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Satchel 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
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Best rank ever
#2,263
1998
Peak year
1998
40 that year
First recorded
1988
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
548
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Satchel

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

SathvikSatvikSatoshiCashelDashelSatyaMarshelAsahelFishelBethelHerchelSaturninoSatoruMechelHurshelSatoriYahelSaturnAzahelCarthelJahelMicahelMiachelDaschel

Sibling names for Satchel

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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