Mitchelle — unisex name

What the Data Says About Mitchelle

The Social Security Administration has registered 502 babies named Mitchelle between 1959 and 2014, spanning 56 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mitchelle currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 1992, when 24 babies received it in a single year. Mitchelle is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 160 additional births since 1961.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mitchelle performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 125 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Mitchelle shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 19 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mitchelle in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mitchelle in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 502 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.