Mechel — #7306 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mechel

The Social Security Administration has registered 219 babies named Mechel between 1960 and 2024, spanning 65 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mechel currently holds the #7306 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2018, when 18 babies received it in a single year. Mechel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 70 additional births since 1960.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mechel performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 99 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Mechel shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 162 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Mechel in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mechel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 219 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.