Mike
Mike is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 221 births. Its best rank was 36th, in 1960–1961.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 2210.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 196012,041 births
- Best rank
- #36first in 1960
- Since 1880
- 205,707people given the name
The story in the numbers
205,707 boys have been named Mike in the United States since 1880, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1960, with 12,041 births — 0.56% of all boys recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 221 births in 2024, against 12,041 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1959, and the 1960s alone account for 35%. It has spent 136 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 20 of them in the top 100.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mike | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 779 | |
| 1890s | 828 | |
| 1900s | 1,281 | |
| 1910s | 7,942 | |
| 1920s | 9,076 | |
| 1930s | 8,028 | |
| 1940s | 34,645 | |
| 1950s | 48,349 | |
| 1960s | 71,459 | |
| 1970s | 10,306 | |
| 1980s | 3,512 | |
| 1990s | 3,285 | |
| 2000s | 3,120 | |
| 2010s | 2,130 | |
| 2020s | 967 |
In 1960, its biggest year
Mike was the 36th most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 1960 were David, Michael, James, John and Robert. See all of 1960.
Names that rose and fell with Mike
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Stevepeak 1959
- Lespeak 1961
- Kenpeak 1960
- Russpeak 1959
- Chuckpeak 1961
- Timpeak 1960
- Stanpeak 1959
- Ronpeak 1960
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.