Mikel — #1788 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Mikel

The Social Security Administration has registered 11,476 babies named Mikel between 1882 and 2024, spanning 143 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Mikel currently holds the #1788 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2004, when 201 babies received it in a single year. Mikel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 995 additional births since 1936.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mikel performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 1,805 births during that ten-year window. Across the 13 decades of recorded activity, Mikel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,121 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Mikel in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mikel 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 11,476 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.