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Mitchelle vs Mittie

American parents have registered 6,298 Mitties since 1880, against 662 Mitchelles. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mitchelle against Mittie, 1880 to 2025 0 40 80 120 160 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mitchelle Mittie

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 131 years in which either name was published, Mittie for 89 years and Mitchelle for 42 years. The lead changed hands 5 times.

Side by side

  Mitchelle Mittie
Total US births 6626,298
Most in one year 36153
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 630930
Median age today 3776
Peak year 19921920
Best rank 4,236th girls580th girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19591880
Girls / boys 502 / 1606,298 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Which name is older

Half of the Mitties alive today are over 76; half the Mitchelles are over 37. That is 39 years between them: two names in use at the same time, worn by two different generations.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mitchelle and Mittie.