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Mitchell
Say it: MICH-ul
Meaning
From an English surname with two sources: Michel, a medieval form of Michael (Hebrew 'who is like God?'), and Old English micel 'big'.
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
A surname adopted as a given name, popular in the US from the 1950s to the 1990s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 163,778 babies given this name since 1880
- At its height in 1994, about 1 in 360 boys
- 339 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Mitchel
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Where this comes from
- English poll taxes and lay subsidy rolls (13th and 14th centuries)
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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