Mikko
Mikko was given to 55 boys in 2025, #2,470 among boys’ names; 879 Americans have been recorded with it since 1969 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikko by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikko mean?
Wiktionary, Finnish section
Mikko is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the sense “Michael” (Mikael).
Vernacular form of Mikael (“Michael”) attested since medieval times.
/ˈmikːo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Finnish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikko?
#2,470 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikko rose from #2,751 in 2015 to #2,470 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 23.0 to 32.2 per million.
55 babies in 2025, the peak
Mikko peaked in 2025, when 55 boys were given it, #2,470 among boys’ names. In 2024 it went to 37 boys.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 55 | #2,470 | 32.2 |
| 2024 | 37 | #3,255 | 21.5 |
| 2023 | 45 | #2,833 | 26.3 |
| 2022 | 43 | #2,942 | 24.6 |
| 2021 | 53 | #2,516 | 30.3 |
| 2020 | 39 | #3,010 | 22.6 |
| 2019 | 24 | #4,293 | 13.4 |
| 2018 | 42 | #2,873 | 23.1 |
| 2017 | 33 | #3,421 | 17.8 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,100 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 44 | #2,751 | 23.0 |
| 2014 | 38 | #3,019 | 19.8 |
| 2013 | 22 | #4,413 | 11.6 |
| 2012 | 28 | #3,771 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 32 | #3,409 | 16.8 |
| 2010 | 20 | #4,787 | 10.4 |
| 2009 | 25 | #4,126 | 12.6 |
| 2008 | 24 | #4,220 | 11.8 |
| 2007 | 19 | #4,923 | 9.2 |
| 2006 | 21 | #4,452 | 10.2 |
| 2005 | 14 | #5,774 | 7.0 |
| 2004 | 10 | #7,355 | 5.0 |
| 2003 | 14 | #5,454 | 7.1 |
| 2002 | 10 | #6,877 | 5.2 |
| 2001 | 9 | #7,304 | 4.6 |
| 1999 | 12 | #5,539 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 10 | #6,144 | 5.2 |
| 1996 | 6 | #8,632 | 3.2 |
| 1995 | 5 | #9,814 | 2.6 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,439 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,330 | 3.1 |
| 1992 | 13 | #4,489 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,318 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 6 | #7,768 | 2.9 |
| 1988 | 7 | #6,225 | 3.7 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,167 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,836 | 4.4 |
| 1981 | 5 | #6,934 | 2.8 |
| 1979 | 5 | #6,725 | 2.9 |
| 1978 | 5 | #6,448 | 3.0 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,735 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikko a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 879 Americans recorded as Mikko, 3% are girls and 97% boys. In 2025 it went to 55 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 Mikko: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikko, and how old are they?
An estimated 866 Americans named Mikko and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 11 years old and half are between 5 and 18. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 825 people named Mikko (77 women and girls, 748 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 603 born in the U.S. The Census count is 37% 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).
Where are babies named Mikko born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Minnesota | 8 | #621 | 7.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,830 | 0.1× |
Where Mikko is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikko is most over-represented in Minnesota: since 1969 it was given 7.6 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 Mikko 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 219,856 babies since 1880, Mikko is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 55 of their 516 babies (11%), 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 Mikko
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 Mikko and names like it
- Compare Mikko and MikeBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2020sMikko peaked in 2025.
- Minnesota’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikko since 1910.
- Finnish namesWiktionary’s origin for Mikko: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2025The year the most babies were named Mikko.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Mikko alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.