Mieke
Mieke was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,477 among girls’ names; 260 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mieke by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mieke mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Mieke is “a female given name, pet form of Maria”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mieke?
#16,477 among girls’ names, 2025
Mieke rose from #18,257 in 2015 to #16,477 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.1 per million.
17 babies in 1972, the peak
Mieke peaked in 1972, when 17 girls were given it, #3,662 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 29% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,477 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,987 | 3.6 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,350 | 2.9 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,317 | 5.2 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,257 | 2.8 |
| 2014 | 5 | #18,354 | 2.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,425 | 6.8 |
| 2011 | 8 | #12,979 | 4.5 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,467 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,124 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (31)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 8 | #13,406 | 4.2 |
| 2007 | 10 | #11,375 | 5.2 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,167 | 5.3 |
| 2003 | 7 | #13,378 | 3.8 |
| 1996 | 5 | #15,033 | 2.9 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,226 | 4.4 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,675 | 5.8 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,141 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,267 | 5.3 |
| 1980 | 7 | #8,734 | 4.2 |
| 1979 | 6 | #9,745 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,300 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,095 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,875 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,066 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 17 | #3,810 | 11.6 |
| 1973 | 5 | #9,283 | 3.4 |
| 1972 | 17 | #3,662 | 11.2 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,009 | 6.6 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,162 | 4.6 |
| 1969 | 6 | #7,170 | 3.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mieke a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mieke has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 31 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mieke: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mieke, and how old are they?
An estimated 251 Americans named Mieke and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 36 years old and half are between 17 and 51. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 421 people named Mieke (419 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 248 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 20,115 babies since 1880, Mieke is the eighth most given (1.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 188 babies (2.7%), the fifth most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mieke
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
| Name | Recorded | 1960-2025 |
|---|---|---|
| Africa | 1,042 |
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mieke and names like it
- Compare Mieke and MikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMieke peaked in 1972.
- Dutch namesWiktionary’s origin for Mieke: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1972The year the most babies were named Mieke.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mieke alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.