girls:
47 births since 1976
#5669 (1st percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1914
#2839 (38th percentile)
overall:
2k births since 1914
#5772 (25th percentile)
The name Mickel is the #5,772 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,002 recorded births since 1914. This represents the 25.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 25.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,839 (38.1% percentile) for all time with 1,955 births since 1914. For girls, it ranks #5,669 (0.8% percentile) for all time with 47 births since 1976.
Mickel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1914 (1914 for boys and 1976 for girls). Birth data for Mickel is available in 92 out of the 110 years between 1914 and 2023 (92 years for boys and 8 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Mickel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mickel reached its peak popularity in 1954, achieving the 7.8% percentile (ranked #568) with 26 births per million. The name was most common in 1954, with 26 births per million (ranked 7.8% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2017, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mickel ranks #909 for boys (0.2% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 14.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mickel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1977, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2000.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mickel".
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Our model found one way to pronounce the name Mickel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 100.0% confident that Mickel is pronounced as MIH-kuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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