Mikey
Mikey is given to both girls and boys: 8 girls and 50 boys were given it in 2025 (#11,589 among girls’ names and #2,631 among boys’, #5,121 among all names counting both); 1,590 Americans have been recorded with it since 1922 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Mikey and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 36.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikey by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikey mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mikey is “a diminutive of the male given name Michael.”
/ˈmaɪki/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikey?
#2,631 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikey rose from #3,487 in 2015 to #2,631 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 16.7 to 29.3 per million.
58 babies in 2025, the peak
Mikey peaked in 2025, when 58 babies were given it (50 boys, #2,631 among boys’ names). In 2024 it went to 42 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 50 | #2,631 | 29.3 |
| 2024 | 42 | #2,985 | 24.4 |
| 2023 | 30 | #3,768 | 17.5 |
| 2022 | 42 | #2,981 | 24.1 |
| 2021 | 34 | #3,393 | 19.4 |
| 2020 | 34 | #3,316 | 19.7 |
| 2019 | 35 | #3,314 | 19.5 |
| 2018 | 34 | #3,344 | 18.7 |
| 2017 | 41 | #2,931 | 22.2 |
| 2016 | 28 | #3,857 | 14.8 |
Every recorded year (81)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #3,487 | 16.7 |
| 2014 | 33 | #3,348 | 17.2 |
| 2013 | 37 | #3,035 | 19.6 |
| 2012 | 47 | #2,617 | 24.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #3,088 | 19.5 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,991 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 32 | #3,449 | 16.1 |
| 2008 | 31 | #3,539 | 15.2 |
| 2007 | 38 | #3,063 | 18.3 |
| 2006 | 32 | #3,355 | 15.6 |
| 2005 | 23 | #4,011 | 11.5 |
| 2004 | 25 | #3,707 | 12.6 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,163 | 15.2 |
| 2002 | 18 | #4,429 | 9.3 |
| 2001 | 19 | #4,229 | 9.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #3,596 | 11.7 |
| 1999 | 22 | #3,546 | 11.5 |
| 1998 | 17 | #4,129 | 8.9 |
| 1997 | 27 | #2,872 | 14.3 |
| 1996 | 25 | #2,992 | 13.2 |
| 1995 | 16 | #3,985 | 8.4 |
| 1994 | 25 | #2,911 | 12.9 |
| 1993 | 20 | #3,322 | 10.2 |
| 1992 | 25 | #2,788 | 12.5 |
| 1991 | 28 | #2,511 | 13.9 |
| 1990 | 33 | #2,193 | 16.1 |
| 1989 | 12 | #4,430 | 6.0 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,823 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 14 | #3,453 | 7.5 |
| 1986 | 6 | #6,452 | 3.3 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,003 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 21 | #2,410 | 11.6 |
| 1983 | 5 | #6,952 | 2.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #3,862 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 15 | #2,984 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 16 | #2,915 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,859 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 13 | #3,169 | 7.9 |
| 1977 | 24 | #2,042 | 14.6 |
| 1976 | 15 | #2,780 | 9.6 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,369 | 7.0 |
| 1974 | 14 | #2,755 | 8.9 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,945 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,286 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 5 | #5,396 | 2.8 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,098 | 3.8 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,835 | 3.4 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,333 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,920 | 4.8 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,621 | 5.3 |
| 1961 | 7 | #3,565 | 3.3 |
| 1960 | 13 | #2,393 | 6.1 |
| 1959 | 13 | #2,376 | 6.1 |
| 1958 | 8 | #3,193 | 3.8 |
| 1957 | 11 | #2,597 | 5.1 |
| 1956 | 13 | #2,338 | 6.1 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,130 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 14 | #2,181 | 6.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,656 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 18 | #1,842 | 9.3 |
| 1951 | 8 | #2,989 | 4.2 |
| 1950 | 9 | #2,709 | 5.0 |
| 1949 | 6 | #3,579 | 3.4 |
| 1948 | 12 | #2,290 | 6.8 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,624 | 3.3 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,363 | 5.4 |
| 1937 | 5 | #3,860 | 4.7 |
| 1936 | 6 | #3,412 | 5.8 |
| 1933 | 8 | #2,912 | 8.1 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,194 | 7.3 |
| 1922 | 7 | #3,756 | 6.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikey a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,590 Americans recorded as Mikey, 1% are girls and 99% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mikey: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikey, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 1,590 Americans ever recorded as Mikey. The median Mikey alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 36.
The 2020 Census counted 3,434 people named Mikey (146 women and girls, 3,288 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,253 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 7 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 110 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 140 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 264 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 453 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 482 |
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).
Where are babies named Mikey born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 13 | #1,405 | 1.4× |
Where Mikey is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikey is most over-represented in California: since 1922 it was given 1.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mikey with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 253,747 babies since 1880, Mikey is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 58 of their 602 babies (9.6%), 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 Mikey
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 Mikey and names like it
- Compare Mikey and MikeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMikey peaked in 2025.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikey since 1910.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mikey.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mikey alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.