Mitchael
Mitchael was last recorded in 2001, when 8 babies were given it; 248 Americans have been recorded with it between 1941 and 2001 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mitchael by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mitchael?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #8,056, in 2001; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1960, the peak
Mitchael peaked in 1960, when 14 boys were given it, #2,279 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2001 | 8 | #8,056 | 4.1 |
| 2000 | 6 | #9,899 | 3.1 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,030 | 2.6 |
| 1997 | 7 | #7,842 | 3.7 |
| 1996 | 5 | #10,015 | 2.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,518 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 8 | #6,770 | 4.1 |
| 1993 | 7 | #7,350 | 3.6 |
| 1992 | 6 | #8,108 | 3.0 |
| 1991 | 9 | #5,785 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6 | #7,773 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 7 | #6,695 | 3.5 |
| 1988 | 6 | #6,975 | 3.1 |
| 1986 | 8 | #5,169 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,079 | 3.3 |
| 1981 | 6 | #5,998 | 3.3 |
| 1979 | 6 | #5,820 | 3.5 |
| 1974 | 6 | #5,039 | 3.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #4,784 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,206 | 2.7 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,542 | 2.9 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,989 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 7 | #3,549 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 8 | #3,220 | 3.9 |
| 1961 | 6 | #3,922 | 2.8 |
| 1960 | 14 | #2,279 | 6.6 |
| 1959 | 6 | #3,866 | 2.8 |
| 1958 | 7 | #3,476 | 3.3 |
| 1957 | 10 | #2,766 | 4.6 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,299 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,131 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #3,699 | 2.9 |
| 1953 | 8 | #3,070 | 4.1 |
| 1951 | 5 | #4,081 | 2.7 |
| 1950 | 5 | #4,029 | 2.8 |
| 1949 | 5 | #4,051 | 2.8 |
| 1941 | 5 | #3,841 | 4.1 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mitchael a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mitchael has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 37 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mitchael: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mitchael, and how old are they?
An estimated 205 Americans named Mitchael and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (83% of everyone recorded); the median is 47 years old and half are between 34 and 66. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 224 people named Mitchael (6 women and girls, 218 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 217 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
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 4 names spelled alike, given to 179,015 babies since 1880, Mitchael is the fourth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 255 babies recorded by SSA was a Mitchael (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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.
More about Mitchael and names like it
- Compare Mitchael and MitchellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMitchael peaked in 1960.
- The top names of 1960The year the most babies were named Mitchael.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mitchael alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.