Mikkel
Mikkel was given to 17 boys in 2025, #5,528 among boys’ names; 906 Americans have been recorded with it since 1947 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikkel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikkel mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Mikkel is “a male given name, variant of Michael”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikkel?
#5,528 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikkel fell from #5,000 in 2015 to #5,528 in 2025 among boys’ names, although its share of boys born rose from 9.9 to 10.0 per million.
29 babies in 2004, the peak
Mikkel peaked in 2004, when 29 boys were given it, #3,335 among boys’ names. The 17 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #5,528 | 10.0 |
| 2024 | 13 | #6,695 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 16 | #5,833 | 9.4 |
| 2022 | 19 | #5,154 | 10.9 |
| 2021 | 21 | #4,716 | 12.0 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,510 | 7.5 |
| 2019 | 18 | #5,278 | 10.0 |
| 2018 | 21 | #4,686 | 11.6 |
| 2017 | 13 | #6,545 | 7.0 |
| 2016 | 15 | #5,955 | 7.9 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 19 | #5,000 | 9.9 |
| 2014 | 18 | #5,184 | 9.4 |
| 2013 | 19 | #4,912 | 10.0 |
| 2012 | 26 | #3,968 | 13.7 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,307 | 12.1 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,630 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 23 | #4,377 | 11.6 |
| 2008 | 22 | #4,487 | 10.8 |
| 2007 | 29 | #3,660 | 14.0 |
| 2006 | 27 | #3,744 | 13.1 |
| 2005 | 24 | #3,896 | 12.0 |
| 2004 | 29 | #3,335 | 14.6 |
| 2003 | 27 | #3,413 | 13.7 |
| 2002 | 25 | #3,521 | 12.9 |
| 2001 | 21 | #3,927 | 10.8 |
| 2000 | 19 | #4,156 | 9.7 |
| 1999 | 13 | #5,224 | 6.8 |
| 1998 | 14 | #4,796 | 7.3 |
| 1997 | 14 | #4,599 | 7.4 |
| 1996 | 10 | #5,826 | 5.3 |
| 1995 | 7 | #7,524 | 3.7 |
| 1994 | 16 | #4,027 | 8.3 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,604 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,759 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 18 | #3,410 | 8.9 |
| 1990 | 17 | #3,549 | 8.3 |
| 1989 | 10 | #5,052 | 5.0 |
| 1988 | 12 | #4,082 | 6.3 |
| 1987 | 10 | #4,465 | 5.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,797 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,238 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 16 | #2,903 | 8.9 |
| 1983 | 14 | #3,174 | 7.8 |
| 1982 | 8 | #4,861 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 13 | #3,344 | 7.3 |
| 1980 | 10 | #4,037 | 5.6 |
| 1979 | 15 | #2,979 | 8.7 |
| 1978 | 10 | #3,762 | 6.1 |
| 1977 | 12 | #3,312 | 7.3 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,274 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 12 | #3,178 | 7.7 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,737 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,946 | 5.1 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,445 | 2.4 |
| 1956 | 6 | #3,802 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,047 | 2.8 |
| 1947 | 5 | #4,085 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikkel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 906 Americans recorded as Mikkel, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 17 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 Mikkel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikkel, and how old are they?
An estimated 873 Americans named Mikkel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 35. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 883 people named Mikkel (90 women and girls, 793 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 787 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above 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 34,262 babies since 1880, Mikkel is the eighth most given (2.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 17 of their 396 babies (4.3%), 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 Mikkel
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 Mikkel and names like it
- Compare Mikkel and MikelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMikkel peaked in 2004.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikkel since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Mikkel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2004The year the most babies were named Mikkel.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikkel alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.