Mikell
Mikell was given to 9 boys in 2025, #8,687 among boys’ names; 2,067 Americans have been recorded with it since 1934 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,840 Americans named Mikell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (89% of everyone recorded); the median is 31 years old and half are between 19 and 49.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikell?
#8,687 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikell fell from #4,832 in 2015 to #8,687 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 10.4 to 5.3 per million.
51 babies in 2000, the peak
Mikell peaked in 2000, when 51 babies were given it (34 boys, #2,714 among boys’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 18% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | under 5 | 9 | #8,687 | |
| 2024 | under 5 | 18 | #5,367 | |
| 2023 | under 5 | 18 | #5,391 | |
| 2022 | under 5 | 19 | #5,153 | |
| 2021 | under 5 | 17 | #5,476 | |
| 2020 | under 5 | 13 | #6,509 | |
| 2019 | under 5 | 15 | #6,009 | |
| 2018 | under 5 | 15 | #5,952 | |
| 2017 | under 5 | 15 | #5,969 | |
| 2016 | under 5 | 25 | #4,163 |
Every recorded year (90)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | under 5 | 20 | #4,832 | |
| 2014 | under 5 | 28 | #3,747 | |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,154 | 38 | #2,980 |
| 2012 | under 5 | 28 | #3,770 | |
| 2011 | under 5 | 41 | #2,883 | |
| 2010 | 10 | #10,977 | 22 | #4,466 |
| 2009 | 5 | #19,254 | 37 | #3,147 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,881 | 38 | #3,082 |
| 2007 | 6 | #16,904 | 41 | #2,903 |
| 2006 | 7 | #14,616 | 34 | #3,198 |
| 2005 | 12 | #9,260 | 39 | #2,786 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,688 | 34 | #2,992 |
| 2003 | 10 | #10,185 | 30 | #3,162 |
| 2002 | 11 | #9,265 | 25 | #3,520 |
| 2001 | 10 | #9,854 | 18 | #4,400 |
| 2000 | 17 | #6,390 | 34 | #2,714 |
| 1999 | 13 | #7,554 | 28 | #2,991 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,392 | 16 | #4,333 |
| 1997 | 10 | #8,798 | 20 | #3,543 |
| 1996 | 18 | #5,448 | 29 | #2,649 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,886 | 18 | #3,646 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,608 | 20 | #3,415 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,874 | 12 | #4,898 |
| 1992 | 14 | #6,530 | 21 | #3,170 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,080 | 18 | #3,409 |
| 1990 | 11 | #7,677 | 25 | #2,669 |
| 1989 | 6 | #11,814 | 18 | #3,281 |
| 1988 | 8 | #8,922 | 19 | #2,913 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,818 | 22 | #2,524 |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,432 | 17 | #2,964 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,773 | 15 | #3,167 |
| 1984 | 11 | #6,149 | 26 | #2,080 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,367 | 24 | #2,184 |
| 1982 | 6 | #10,012 | 11 | #3,861 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,503 | 17 | #2,744 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,891 | 16 | #2,914 |
| 1979 | 5 | #11,295 | 8 | #4,693 |
| 1978 | under 5 | 17 | #2,627 | |
| 1977 | 8 | #7,309 | 11 | #3,515 |
| 1976 | 14 | #4,509 | 15 | #2,779 |
| 1975 | under 5 | 21 | #2,180 | |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,065 | 11 | #3,255 |
| 1973 | under 5 | 10 | #3,364 | |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,773 | 12 | #2,941 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,153 | 22 | #1,965 |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,164 | 14 | #2,590 |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,929 | 12 | #2,638 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,036 | 10 | #2,849 |
| 1967 | under 5 | 16 | #2,008 | |
| 1966 | 6 | #6,315 | 15 | #2,107 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,148 | 12 | #2,430 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,828 | 10 | #2,784 |
| 1963 | under 5 | 13 | #2,376 | |
| 1962 | 7 | #5,668 | 15 | #2,160 |
| 1961 | under 5 | 16 | #2,117 | |
| 1960 | under 5 | 19 | #1,891 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,906 | 13 | #2,375 |
| 1958 | under 5 | 17 | #1,995 | |
| 1957 | under 5 | 10 | #2,764 | |
| 1956 | under 5 | 19 | #1,867 | |
| 1955 | under 5 | 17 | #1,950 | |
| 1954 | under 5 | 12 | #2,392 | |
| 1953 | under 5 | 16 | #2,012 | |
| 1952 | under 5 | 17 | #1,918 | |
| 1951 | under 5 | 12 | #2,330 | |
| 1950 | under 5 | 10 | #2,532 | |
| 1949 | under 5 | 12 | #2,300 | |
| 1948 | under 5 | 10 | #2,559 | |
| 1947 | under 5 | 8 | #3,021 | |
| 1946 | 5 | #5,460 | 6 | #3,408 |
| 1945 | 8 | #3,587 | under 5 | |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,655 | under 5 | |
| 1942 | 5 | #5,137 | 6 | #3,442 |
| 1941 | 6 | #4,282 | 6 | #3,386 |
| 1940 | 6 | #4,201 | under 5 | |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,781 | under 5 | |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,531 | under 5 | |
| 1936 | 11 | #2,643 | under 5 | |
| 1935 | 25 | #1,503 | under 5 | |
| 1934 | 9 | #3,085 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mikell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,067 Americans recorded as Mikell, 26% are girls and 74% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 boys; SSA lists no girls with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mikell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikell, and how old are they?
1,840 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 89% of the 2,067 Americans ever recorded as Mikell. The median Mikell alive today is 31 years old; half are between 19 and 49.
The 2020 Census counted 1,547 people named Mikell (484 women and girls, 1,063 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,815 born in the U.S. The Census count is 15% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 39 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 189 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 284 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 458 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 618 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 255 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
How common is the spelling Mikell?
Mikell is a less common spelling of Mikel: SSA has recorded 2,067 Mikell and 12,554 Mikel since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 34,599 babies since 1880, Mikell is the sixth most given (6.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 426 babies (2.1%), again the sixth most given.
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 Mikell
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
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 Mikell and names like it
- Compare Mikell and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMikell peaked in 2000.
- Georgia’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikell since 1910.
- The top names of 2000The year the most babies were named Mikell.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikell alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.