Mike is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Mike isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Mike ranks 944. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Mike. In the entire USA, approximately 197,926 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mike. That is 0.06 % of all living Americans.
Mike is the epitome of perseverance. Every year since first names have been registered in the U.S., parents have come up with the idea of naming their son Mike. This means that several boys named Mike have witnessed significant events such as the first Nobel Prize ceremony, the moon landing, the release of the first cell phone, or the turn of the millennium. The first name Mike has reached its best rank of #36 multiple times, most recently in 1961. The name has also been in the top 100 for many years. This makes Mike one of the most popular names of all time.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mike was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
Mike will be Mike. Like every other year, there have been newborns named Mike in 2022 – in fact 209 to be precise, confirming Mike as is still a very popular first name. In this most recent year for which US-wide statistics are available, the name ranked #972 among all boys‘ names. For comparison, the least popular year for this first name was 2021, when only 159 baby boys were named Mike.
There are only 386 different male names registered in every single state in the U.S., and Mike is one of them. However, Mike is not equally widespread in all states, but people in Wyoming seem to particularly fancy this name – the 712 men called Mike who live here are 0,294% of all male residents and push their name up to #82 in our SmartGenius statistics, easily placing it in the top 100 most common male names in Wyoming. If you look at all the states in the USA together, you can currently find as many as 197,926 people with the name Mike. Across all regions and age groups, this lands Mike on position 173 in our SmartGenius ranking of the top male names – of course, the current popularity as a baby name for newborns looks somewhat different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With four letters, the name Mike is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Mike and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mike, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Mike sounds like this:
