# Mitchel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mitchel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 13,309 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 13,287 / 22 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 607, 1996 to 2025 |

## Etymology

Variant of Mitchell.

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1987 | 6 | 10,773 |
| 1989 | 6 | 11,830 |
| 2004 | 5 | 17,926 |
| 2005 | 5 | 18,314 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 56 | 2,303 |
| 2012 | 36 | 3,153 |
| 2013 | 27 | 3,823 |
| 2014 | 30 | 3,590 |
| 2015 | 22 | 4,497 |
| 2016 | 25 | 4,165 |
| 2017 | 25 | 4,193 |
| 2018 | 25 | 4,178 |
| 2019 | 23 | 4,431 |
| 2020 | 14 | 6,188 |
| 2021 | 12 | 6,964 |
| 2022 | 14 | 6,373 |
| 2023 | 18 | 5,398 |
| 2024 | 14 | 6,373 |
| 2025 | 10 | 8,037 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2003 | 39 | 577 |
| 2004 | 40 | 599 |
| 2005 | 32 | 766 |
| 2006 | 31 | 814 |
| 2007 | 27 | 926 |
| 2008 | 19 | 1,242 |
| 2009 | 28 | 944 |
| 2010 | 18 | 1,344 |
| 2011 | 7 | 2,613 |
| 2012 | 8 | 2,458 |
| 2013 | 8 | 2,403 |
| 2016 | 3 | 4,810 |
| 2017 | 3 | 4,812 |
| 2021 | 3 | 4,789 |
| 2023 | 3 | 4,991 |

## People named Mitchel

- Mitchel Musso, American actor, singer and songwriter
- Mitchel Bakker, Dutch association football player
- Mitchell Feigenbaum, American mathematical physicist (1944–2019)
- Mitchel Resnick, American academic (b. 1956)
- Mitchel Forman, American jazz and fusion keyboard player
- Mitchel Steenman, Dutch rower
- John Lounsbery, American animator (1911–1976)
- Raphael M. Robinson, American mathematician (1911-1995)
- Mickey Leigh, American musician and author

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.