Mickel
Recorded 1914–2025 · United States
Mickel was most popular in 1957, when 54 American babies were given the name — ranking #2,366 that year. In 2025 it ranked #20,040, with 7 births. Across 1880–2025 the Social Security Administration has recorded 2,009 people named Mickel.
Mickel over time
How old is the name Mickel?
Mickel first appears in Social Security Administration records in 1914, which makes it about 111 years old as a recorded American name. It has been recorded in 93 of the 112 years since.
How many people are named Mickel?
The Social Security Administration has recorded 2,009 American births named Mickel between 1880 and 2025. That is recorded US births, not a world population — it counts people issued a Social Security number at birth in the United States. Of those, roughly 1,640 are estimated to be alive today.
How many babies were named Mickel in 2025?
7 American babies were named Mickel in 2025, ranking #20,040 that year.
Is Mickel getting more or less popular?
Mickel is too rare for a direction to mean much. It averaged 8 births a year across 2021–2025 against 11 a year a decade earlier — at these counts a single baby moves the percentage, and any year under five births is withheld at source.
Measured on recorded births. American births overall have fallen since 2007, so most established names lose births over any recent decade — a name can shed births and still hold its rank. Compare the rank above, which is measured against the other names of the same year.
Is Mickel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Across the whole record Mickel is a boy’s name — 2.3% of the 2,009 Americans given it were girls and 97.7% were boys. In births since 2016 it is 0% girls and 100% boys.
Counted from every US birth the Social Security Administration recorded under this name, so it reflects use rather than opinion. A name given to fewer than five babies of one sex in a year is withheld at source and is not counted.
How old is someone named Mickel?
Roughly 1,640 Americans named Mickel are alive today — 82% of everyone ever recorded with the name. The median is 51 years old, and half are between 31 and 66. That is a wide band, the mark of a name in steady use across generations rather than a passing fashion.
An estimate, not a count. Recorded births are carried forward through the Social Security Administration’s 2023 period life table, by age and sex. That table describes mortality in one recent year, so it credits the oldest cohorts with today’s survival rather than the harsher rates they actually lived through — the further back a name peaked, the more this will overstate how many remain. It counts people issued a Social Security number at birth, not immigrants who arrived later.
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Source: U.S.A. Social Security Administration. Years 1880–2025. namelegacy.org