Mickey
About 34,173 American babies have been named Mickey since 1898, most of them around 1957. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 2,035th. About 23,000 Mickeys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mickey boys named Mickey
Girls and boys called Mickey
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Mickey crossed from girls to boys in 1929, having already crossed in 1920, and has stayed there for 97 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, and in 2025 it was 85%.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 115 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 34,173
- Estimated living today
- 23,000
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1957
- Best rank
- 248th
- Rank in 2025
- 2,035th
- First recorded
- 1898
- Girls / boys
- 6,546 / 27,627
How old the living Mickeys are
born that year still alive today
Of the 34,173 babies given the name since 1898, about 23,000 are alive — 67 in every hundred. Roughly 1,800 of them are children and 9,800 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
The is derived from (a variant of -y).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mickeys
- Mickey Rooney (1920–2014)American actor
- Mickey Rourke (born 1952)American actor and former boxer
- Mickey Spillane (1918–2006)American crime novelist
- Mickey Mantle (1931–1995)American baseball player
- Mickey Hargitay (1926–2006)Hungarian-American actor and bodybuilder
- Mickey Madden (born 1979)American bassist
- Mickey Kuhn (1932–2022)American actor
- Mickey Cohen (1913–1976)American criminal
People named Mickey with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mickey is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mickey is most concentrated in Oklahoma (3.0×), Alabama (2.8×), Tennessee (2.3×), North Carolina (2.3×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1957
The most popular boys’ names the year Mickey peaked:
Mickey elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| England and Wales boys | Mickey | 389 | 1,074th |
| France boys | Mickey | 35 | 2,380th |
| Belgium boys | Mickey | 29 | 687th |
| Ireland boys | Mickey | 3 | 741st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mickey: rank by region
In 1998, Mickey was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mickey | 633 | 6 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mickey among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Mickey | 16 | 19 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Mickey against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.