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Mikell

The boy's name Mikell has been in the national records since 1934, with 2,067 births to its name. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 8,243rd. About 1,900 Mikells are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 30.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 13 25 38 50 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Mikell boys named Mikell

Girls and boys called Mikell

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Mikell crossed from girls to boys in 1971, and has stayed there for 33 of the years counted since. At its furthest it was 100% boys, which is roughly where it still is.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 34 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
2,067
Estimated living today
1,900
Median age today
30
Peak year
2007
Best rank
2,868th
Rank in 2025
8,243rd
First recorded
1934
Girls / boys
534 / 1,533

How old the living Mikells are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 15 30 45 60 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 2,067 babies given the name since 1934, about 1,900 are alive — 90 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1995 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 Mikell is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Mikell is most concentrated in Utah (30.3×), Georgia (12.5×), Florida (5.5×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 2007

The most popular boys’ names the year Mikell peaked:

All the names of 2007

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Mikell against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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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.