Mikel
Mikel is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 91 births. Its best rank was 513th, in 1953.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 910.01% of boys
- Peak year
- 2004201 births
- Best rank
- #513in 1953
- Since 1882
- 12,471people given the name
The story in the numbers
11,476 boys have been named Mikel in the United States since 1882, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2004, with 201 births.
It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1989, and the 2000s alone account for 16%. It has spent 61 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
It is overwhelmingly a boy’s name: 995 girls have also been given it, 8.0% of the total.
Rank among boys, year by year
By decade
| Decade | boys named Mikel | |
|---|---|---|
| 1880s | 5 | |
| 1910s | 35 | |
| 1920s | 46 | |
| 1930s | 50 | |
| 1940s | 430 | |
| 1950s | 1,503 | |
| 1960s | 1,144 | |
| 1970s | 1,261 | |
| 1980s | 1,438 | |
| 1990s | 1,699 | |
| 2000s | 1,805 | |
| 2010s | 1,516 | |
| 2020s | 544 |
In 2004, its biggest year
Mikel was the 872nd most given boy’s name that year. The top five boys’ names of 2004 were Jacob, Michael, Joshua, Matthew and Ethan. See all of 2004.
Names that rose and fell with Mikel
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Roelpeak 2000
- Mikellpeak 2007
- Hectorpeak 2005
- Frankypeak 2007
- Mickpeak 1991
- Mikealpeak 1952
- Kentonpeak 2014
- Rogeliopeak 2005
Other spellings in the data
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.