Mitcheal
Mitcheal was last recorded in 1994, when 5 babies were given it; 267 Americans have been recorded with it between 1948 and 1994 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mitcheal by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mitcheal?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,775, in 1994; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
16 babies in 1958, the peak
Mitcheal peaked in 1958, when 16 boys were given it, #2,074 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1994 | 5 | #9,775 | 2.6 |
| 1991 | 8 | #6,322 | 4.0 |
| 1990 | 7 | #6,911 | 3.4 |
| 1987 | 7 | #5,881 | 3.7 |
| 1985 | 10 | #4,239 | 5.4 |
| 1984 | 6 | #6,080 | 3.3 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,787 | 6.1 |
| 1981 | 7 | #5,296 | 3.9 |
| 1975 | 5 | #6,015 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 7 | #4,352 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (32)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1972 | 6 | #4,785 | 3.7 |
| 1970 | 5 | #5,207 | 2.7 |
| 1969 | 5 | #4,805 | 2.8 |
| 1968 | 6 | #3,990 | 3.5 |
| 1967 | 6 | #3,837 | 3.4 |
| 1965 | 9 | #2,922 | 4.8 |
| 1964 | 9 | #2,990 | 4.5 |
| 1963 | 11 | #2,628 | 5.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,450 | 2.4 |
| 1961 | 10 | #2,832 | 4.7 |
| 1960 | 15 | #2,176 | 7.0 |
| 1959 | 16 | #2,080 | 7.5 |
| 1958 | 16 | #2,074 | 7.5 |
| 1957 | 12 | #2,450 | 5.6 |
| 1956 | 11 | #2,593 | 5.2 |
| 1955 | 9 | #2,909 | 4.4 |
| 1954 | 5 | #4,181 | 2.5 |
| 1953 | 7 | #3,327 | 3.5 |
| 1952 | 6 | #3,607 | 3.1 |
| 1951 | 9 | #2,795 | 4.8 |
| 1950 | 10 | #2,533 | 5.6 |
| 1948 | 6 | #3,557 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mitcheal a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mitcheal has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 32 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mitcheal: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mitcheal, and how old are they?
An estimated 210 Americans named Mitcheal and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (79% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 45 and 68. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 208 people named Mitcheal (6 women and girls, 202 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 225 born in the U.S. The Census count is 8% below 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, Mitcheal is the third most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 255 babies recorded by SSA was a Mitcheal (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.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mitcheal
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 Mitcheal and names like it
- Compare Mitcheal and MitchellBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMitcheal peaked in 1958.
- The top names of 1958The year the most babies were named Mitcheal.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Mitcheal alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.