Mikelle — #13749 US unisex name
912 babies named Mikelle in U.S. Social Security records since 1969, with the highest year being 2001. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
More common than 22% of names given to girls today.
23% of everyone ever named Mikelle was born in this single decade.
29 babies were named Mikelle in 2001 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mikelle
The Social Security Administration has registered 912 babies named Mikelle between 1969 and 2024, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mikelle currently holds the #13749 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2001, when 29 babies received it in a single year. Mikelle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 77 additional births since 1994.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mikelle performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 208 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Mikelle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Utah, which accounts for 127 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California. In total, SSA state-level files list Mikelle in 2 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mikelle 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 912 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.
Mikelle at a glance
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Current rank
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Mikelle popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2024–1969
- Peak year (2001)
- 29
- Annual births at peak — across 56 years of records
Currently ranks #13749 among girls.
912 total births across 56 years of SSA records. Peaked in 2001 with 29 births in a single year.
Mikelle popularity over time — boys
77 total births recorded since 1994 (Mikelle as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Mikelle accounts for 8% of total recorded use across both genders.
Mikelle by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 208 births that decade — 23% of Mikelle's all-time total
Mikelle decade highlights
- Peak decade 208 births
- Runner-up 184 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Mikelle's strongest decade
208 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 23% of all-time use.
Mikelle by state
Where Mikelle concentrates geographically — total births since 1969
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | Utah | | 127 | 13.9% |
| #2 | California | | 16 | 1.8% |
127 of 912 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 2 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- Utah 13.9% of nationwide
- California 1.8% of nationwide
Recorded in 2 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
Utah accounts for 13.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1969–2024 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.