girls:
24 births since 1982
#5692 (0th percentile)
boys:
852 births since 1947
#3735 (19th percentile)
overall:
876 births since 1947
#6863 (11th percentile)
The name Mikkel is the #6,863 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 876 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 11.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 11.3% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,735 (18.5% percentile) for all time with 852 births since 1947. For girls, it ranks #5,692 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 24 births since 1982.
Mikkel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (1947 for boys and 1982 for girls). Birth data for Mikkel is available in 55 out of the 77 years between 1947 and 2023 (55 years for boys and 4 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 Mikkel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 97.3% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mikkel reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 2.8% percentile (ranked #823) with 14 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 14 births per million (ranked 2.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2020, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mikkel ranks #900 for boys (1.2% percentile) with 9 births per million, which is 63.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mikkel reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1995.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikkel".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mikkel is pronounced as MIH-kuhl, which has 2 syllables.
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