Mitch
Mitch was given to 6 boys in 2025, #11,544 among boys’ names; 5,565 Americans have been recorded with it since 1916 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,620 Americans named Mitch and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 58 years old and half are between 37 and 65.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mitch by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mitch mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mitch is “a diminutive of the male given name Mitchell.”
Clipping of Mitchell.
/mɪt͡ʃ/
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mitch?
#11,544 among boys’ names, 2025
Mitch fell from #5,654 in 2015 to #11,544 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 8.3 to 3.5 per million.
400 babies in 1961, the peak
Mitch peaked in 1961, when 400 boys were given it, #396 among boys’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #11,544 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #8,127 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 12 | #7,154 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 6 | #11,828 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,428 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 13 | #6,511 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #8,013 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 17 | #5,463 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 21 | #4,685 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 17 | #5,466 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (89)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #5,654 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 19 | #4,995 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 11 | #7,376 | 0.01 |
| 2012 | 18 | #5,178 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 23 | #4,308 | 0.01 |
| 2010 | 22 | #4,468 | 0.01 |
| 2009 | 21 | #4,691 | 0.01 |
| 2008 | 18 | #5,187 | 0.01 |
| 2007 | 28 | #3,759 | 0.01 |
| 2006 | 20 | #4,626 | 0.01 |
| 2005 | 34 | #3,060 | 0.02 |
| 2004 | 30 | #3,260 | 0.02 |
| 2003 | 30 | #3,164 | 0.02 |
| 2002 | 41 | #2,455 | 0.02 |
| 2001 | 39 | #2,508 | 0.02 |
| 2000 | 37 | #2,556 | 0.02 |
| 1999 | 36 | #2,496 | 0.02 |
| 1998 | 58 | #1,757 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 46 | #1,985 | 0.02 |
| 1996 | 37 | #2,235 | 0.02 |
| 1995 | 56 | #1,634 | 0.03 |
| 1994 | 77 | #1,333 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,452 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 58 | #1,534 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 60 | #1,471 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 79 | #1,242 | 0.04 |
| 1989 | 93 | #1,097 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 96 | #988 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 80 | #1,070 | 0.04 |
| 1986 | 79 | #1,052 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 81 | #1,017 | 0.04 |
| 1984 | 52 | #1,286 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 62 | #1,152 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 86 | #975 | 0.05 |
| 1981 | 71 | #1,081 | 0.04 |
| 1980 | 75 | #1,045 | 0.04 |
| 1979 | 51 | #1,297 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 47 | #1,339 | 0.03 |
| 1977 | 35 | #1,597 | 0.02 |
| 1976 | 36 | #1,526 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 40 | #1,394 | 0.03 |
| 1974 | 48 | #1,210 | 0.03 |
| 1973 | 41 | #1,305 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 58 | #1,067 | 0.04 |
| 1971 | 49 | #1,175 | 0.03 |
| 1970 | 75 | #925 | 0.04 |
| 1969 | 67 | #939 | 0.04 |
| 1968 | 80 | #826 | 0.05 |
| 1967 | 73 | #840 | 0.04 |
| 1966 | 90 | #770 | 0.05 |
| 1965 | 131 | #652 | 0.07 |
| 1964 | 185 | #583 | 0.09 |
| 1963 | 304 | #453 | 0.15 |
| 1962 | 351 | #427 | 0.17 |
| 1961 | 400 | #396 | 0.19 |
| 1960 | 331 | #443 | 0.16 |
| 1959 | 295 | #463 | 0.14 |
| 1958 | 285 | #464 | 0.13 |
| 1957 | 207 | #539 | 0.10 |
| 1956 | 74 | #871 | 0.03 |
| 1955 | 68 | #904 | 0.03 |
| 1954 | 46 | #1,108 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,370 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,449 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 26 | #1,477 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 16 | #1,929 | 0.01 |
| 1949 | 19 | #1,741 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 23 | #1,545 | 0.01 |
| 1947 | 15 | #2,046 | 0.01 |
| 1946 | 11 | #2,359 | 0.01 |
| 1945 | 10 | #2,343 | 0.01 |
| 1944 | 5 | #3,755 | under 0.01 |
| 1943 | 7 | #3,143 | under 0.01 |
| 1942 | 7 | #3,121 | 0.01 |
| 1940 | 5 | #3,787 | under 0.01 |
| 1939 | 6 | #3,365 | 0.01 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,039 | under 0.01 |
| 1933 | 6 | #3,523 | 0.01 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,301 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mitch a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mitch has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 89 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mitch: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mitch, and how old are they?
4,620 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 83% of the 5,565 Americans ever recorded as Mitch. The median Mitch alive today is 58 years old; half are between 37 and 65.
The 2020 Census counted 12,863 people named Mitch (95 women and girls, 12,768 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 4,827 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2.7 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mitch rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 15 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 2,010 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 869 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,070 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 492 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 164 |
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 Mitch born?
The states with the most babies named Mitch are California, Texas and Ohio, with 37% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 654 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Texas | 186 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 162 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 148 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Minnesota | 108 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Utah | 105 | not ranked | 2.2× |
| Washington | 103 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| Michigan | 96 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Missouri | 95 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Wisconsin | 88 | not ranked | 0.7× |
Where Mitch is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mitch is most over-represented in Utah: since 1916 it was given 2.2 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 Mitch with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mitch
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 Mitch and names like it
- Compare Mitch and DarrylBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMitch peaked in 1961.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mitch since 1910.
- The top names of 1961The year the most babies were named Mitch.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mitch alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.