Mikkel

maleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mikkel: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mikkel: Recorded since 1945, it reached #28 in 2019, and it was still inside the top 100 in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
84times a registrar ranked it
81years from first to last
#28highest recorded position
18groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mikkel's record

Held a top-100 place for 25 years running. Names by top-100 run

Region

Falling

among boys in England and Wales · 1997–2022

View as table

England and Wales · Boys rank by year
Year	Rank
1997	#1761
1999	#2943
2000	#3036
2002	#2636
2005	#2754
2006	#4052
2007	#4333
2009	#2837
2010	#3865
2013	#3315
2017	#4812
2020	#3848
2021	#4789
2022	#4001

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Boys

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 70 of the 81 years from 1945 to 2025.

In 2022: #34 among boys in Norway, #4001 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1945–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1945
First recorded at #260 among boys in Norway in 1945 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1945–2025
Highest recorded position: #28 among boys in Norway, in 2019 (recorded 1945–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #36 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Mikkel appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 70 years beginning in 1945, and has registered 4,931 births with the name.

Mikkel across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mikkel's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
Norway · Boys	#260 (1945)	#28 (2019)	#36 (2025)	70 of 81	4,931 (1945–2025)	205 (2016)
England and Wales · Boys	#1761 (1997)	#1761 (1997)	#4001 (2022)	14 of 26	56 (1997–2022)	6 (1997)

Mikkel by decade in Norway · Boys

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mikkel in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1940s	17	2 of 10	9
1950s	37	6 of 10	6
1960s	54	7 of 10	8
1970s	113	9 of 10	13
1980s	213	10 of 10	21
1990s	597	10 of 10	60
2000s	1,097	10 of 10	110
2010sbusiest	1,758	10 of 10	176
2020s	1,045	6 of 10	174

Across Norway · Boys, the 2010s were its busiest decade, averaging 176 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 2019 and 2020, when recorded births fell by 53, from 196 to 143.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mikkel appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #28 in Norway in 2019.

Mikkel's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#4789	3	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#4812	3	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#3315	5	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#3865	4	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2837	6	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#4333	3	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#4052	3	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2754	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#2636	4	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#3036	3	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#2943	3	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#36	186	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#31	194	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#38	174	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#34	174	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#30	174	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#38	143	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#28	196	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#43	171	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#38	176	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#30	205	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#45	162	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#43	169	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#48	159	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#44	175	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#39	194	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#54	151	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#43	189	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#59	149	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#61	136	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#56	139	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#86	98	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#90	86	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#82	94	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#99	72	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#95	75	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#122	59	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#104	68	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#139	50	High	Verified
1997	Norway	male	#108	67	High	Verified
1996	Norway	male	#130	53	High	Verified
1995	Norway	male	#100	70	High	Verified
1994	Norway	male	#114	65	High	Verified
1993	Norway	male	#157	44	High	Verified
1992	Norway	male	#116	59	High	Verified
1991	Norway	male	#123	61	High	Verified
1990	Norway	male	#124	60	High	Verified
1989	Norway	male	#157	45	High	Verified
1988	Norway	male	#210	28	High	Verified
1987	Norway	male	#239	23	High	Verified
1986	Norway	male	#267	21	High	Verified
1985	Norway	male	#235	25	High	Verified
1984	Norway	male	#309	16	High	Verified
1983	Norway	male	#545	6	High	Verified
1982	Norway	male	#280	18	High	Verified
1981	Norway	male	#290	16	High	Verified
1980	Norway	male	#309	15	High	Verified
1978	Norway	male	#321	14	High	Verified
1977	Norway	male	#553	5	High	Verified
1976	Norway	male	#267	18	High	Verified
1975	Norway	male	#378	11	High	Verified
1974	Norway	male	#308	15	High	Verified
1973	Norway	male	#355	12	High	Verified
1972	Norway	male	#314	14	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#327	13	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#360	11	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#453	7	High	Verified
1968	Norway	male	#368	10	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#468	6	High	Verified
1966	Norway	male	#317	12	High	Verified
1963	Norway	male	#514	4	High	Verified
1961	Norway	male	#332	9	High	Verified
1960	Norway	male	#415	6	High	Verified
1959	Norway	male	#397	6	High	Verified
1958	Norway	male	#359	7	High	Verified
1956	Norway	male	#407	5	High	Verified
1955	Norway	male	#395	5	High	Verified
1952	Norway	male	#281	9	High	Verified
1951	Norway	male	#367	5	High	Verified
1948	Norway	male	#313	7	High	Verified
1945	Norway	male	#260	10	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1945 and 2025, ranked in 70 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #28, first reached in 2019.

It held a top-100 place in 26 years, 25 of them consecutive.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 205 births, registered in Norway in 2016.

Its record falls into 8 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 2 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 52 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

Mikhail · #605, 28y
Mikie · #439, 9y
Mikolaj · #166, 31y
Mila · #4, 34y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Henriette · #31, 71y
Eline · #32, 65y
Steffen · #24, 71y
Sunniva · #32, 66y

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1940 and 1949.

Britt · #28, 55y
Ivar · #28, 81y
Magne · #28, 81y
Margot · #28, 53y

Mikkel was ranked #28 in Norway · Boys in 2019. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mikkel and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mikkel without appearing here.

Mikkel moved ahead of

Kerry Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4333 and #3589 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3865 and #4678.
Maddison Compare
In 2009 they stood at #4333 and #4333 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #3865 and #4678.
Ole Compare
In 2021 they stood at #4789 and #3017 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2022 that had become #4001 and #4789.
Brooke Compare
In 2019 they stood at #4812 and #4812 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2020 that had become #3848 and #4608.

Moved ahead of Mikkel

Hans Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3315 and #4685 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #4812 and #2172.
Ollie Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #655.
Gunnar Compare
In 2016 they stood at #3315 and #3822 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2017 that had become #4812 and #3040.
Fredrik Compare
In 1998 they stood at #1761 and #2337 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1999 that had become #2943 and #1505.

Moved the opposite way to Mikkel

Anders Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 while Anders went from #55 to #293.
Arild Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 while Arild went from #32 to #489.
Arne Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 while Arne went from #6 to #222.
Bjørn Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 while Bjørn went from #3 to #56.

Moved the same way as Mikkel

Aksel Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 and Aksel from #174 to #25.
Alfred Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 and Alfred from #127 to #26.
Arthur Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 and Arthur from #153 to #83.
Elias Compare
Between 1945 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mikkel went from #260 to #36 and Elias from #328 to #4.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1945 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #28 in Norway in 2019. Source data last verified 2026-07-25.

Mikkel

Mikkel at a glance

What stands out in Mikkel's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mikkel across 2 official records

Mikkel by decade in Norway · Boys

Mikkel appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Mikkel at a glance

What stands out in Mikkel's record

Mikkel across 2 official records

Mikkel by decade in Norway · Boys

Mikkel appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1940s

Names published alongside Mikkel

Mikkel and the names beside it

Mikkel moved ahead of

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