girls:
22 births since 1987
#5694 (0th percentile)
boys:
13.3k births since 1880
#1008 (78th percentile)
overall:
13.3k births since 1880
#2277 (71st percentile)
The name Mitchel is the #2,277 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 13,285 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 70.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 70.6% of all names). For boys, it ranks #1,008 (78.0% percentile) for all time with 13,263 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #5,694 (0.4% percentile) for all time with 22 births since 1987.
Mitchel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1987 for girls). Birth data for Mitchel is available in 137 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (137 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 Mitchel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.8% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mitchel reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 41.7% percentile (ranked #453) with 200 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 200 births per million (ranked 41.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 1997, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mitchel ranks #898 for boys (1.4% percentile) with 10 births per million, which is 4.9% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mitchel reached its peak popularity in 1989, achieving the 0.6% percentile (ranked #820) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1987, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.1% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2005.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mitchel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Mitchel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 12 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Mitchell" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Mitchell..
Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mitchel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 68.9% confident that Mitchel is pronounced as MIH-chuhl, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIHT-chuhl, at 22.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH1 CH AH0 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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