Given name & surname
Mitchel
“who is like God?”
Mitchel is a variant of Mitchell. In English use, Mitchell carries the interpretation “who is like God?.”
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mitchel is a variant of Mitchell. In English use, Mitchell carries the interpretation “who is like God?.”
Explained through its name family
Where it comes from
Mitchel is a form of Mitchell. Mitchell comes from Middle English, and ultimately from Old French.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1880. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin. Mitchel is a variant of Mitchell. The history of Mitchell gives this family its wider story. Mitchell’s naming history includes the use of a family name as a given name.
Combines direct and name-family evidence
Mitchel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 13,309
- 13,287 boys · 22 girls
- Most popular year
- 1994
- 407 babies
- 2025
- 10
- #8,037 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- −39%
- Cooling
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 10 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,037 among boys’ names. Average annual use for boys was 39.3% lower in 2021–2025 than in 2016–2020. Its largest published annual count for boys was 407 in 1994. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 10,351 as a first name in 2020; 4,077 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mitchel’s family of names
Mitchel has a related form in Mitchell.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 21
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mitchel
- Mitchel MussoAmerican actor, singer and songwriterborn 1991
- Mitchel BakkerDutch association football playerborn 2000
- Mitchell FeigenbaumAmerican mathematical physicist (1944–2019)
- Mitchel ResnickAmerican academic (b. 1956)
- Mitchel SteenmanDutch rowerborn 1984
- Mitchel FormanAmerican jazz and fusion keyboard playerborn 1956
- Mitchel Wongsodikromobadminton playerborn 1985
- Mitchel BrownHonduran footballerborn 1981
- Mitchel MalykCanadian lugerborn 1995
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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