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The first name 
Mikkel

Mikkel is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.

Mikkel – one in 100,000!

There’s a good chance that a boy named Mikkel in a medium-sized town will be unique. That’s because only a few babies a year are named Mikkel in all of the US. Only about one in 100,000 boys is named Mikkel by his parents. In the ranking of most common boys names in recent years, Mikkel ranks at #4,455. That means there are 4,454 more common boys names, but there are also a few thousand that are even rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mikkel.

You won't believe all there is 
to discover about the name
 
Mikkel

Mikkel -
special from day one

In fact, the name Mikkel hardly fits the trend of first names for boys. Between 1976 and 1999, young parents changed that a bit. For many years, Mikkel wasn't given at all (or at least less than 5 times, because that's the number required for a name to appear in the statistics), but by 1984, the name was more popular than ever. Although the name never ranked higher than position 2,462, 16 parents chose it in 1984 as a potential new rising star on the horizon of beautiful and rare names. If your name is Mikkel, you were already special when you were born - and you did your best to become a trendsetter.

In years where the graph has no value, the name Mikkel was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.

Mikkel - originality welcome!

In 2022, expectant parents chose the rare name Mikkel a few times. Among all newborn boys, it ranked 4,324, for a total of 19 babies. The name is still more common than it was most time of the last century, when it didn't appear at all for a many years. As Mikkel seems to be a bit more popular in the middle of the 20th century, it proves to remain a great rarity in 2022.

Mikkel -
at home in

Meeting a man or boy named Mikkel is something really special. Out of all 50 states, men and boys named Mikkel can be found in only : . No other state currently has residents named Mikkel. However, we must admit that a given name is only included in a state’s official statistics if there are at least five people with that name living in that state – so it’s quite possible that there are still a few men and boys called Mikkel living in one state or another. (If your name is Mikkel and you live outside of , we’d really appreciate it if you’d let us know so we can refine our statistics even further.) Either way, the name is quite rare. The best chance of meeting a Mikkel is in California, as there live more men and boys with this name in relation to the population than in any other state. But even here in California, only 0.00020% of all male residents are called Mikkel – that’s just one in 510,365! And even in all these states combined there are only a total of 32 men going by that name. So, if your name is Mikkel, chances are you will never meet another man bearing that extraordinary first name.

Mikkel has 6 letters 
and begins with an M

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 six letters, the name Mikkel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. 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.

With hands, flags and sounds 
How to say Mikkel

If your name is Mikkel 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...

This is how you spell the name Mikkel

So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Mikkel, you can simply say:

Mouse

Igloo

Koala

Koala

Elephant

Lion

This is how the name Mikkel is spelled in the NATO phonetic alphabet

The NATO alphabet often helps people spell words on the phone or radio when there are communication problems.

How do you write Mikkel in Braille?

Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.

Mikkel

Mikkel

You want to tell a deaf person that your name is Mikkel

Just use American Sign Language!

The name Mikkel is particularly colorful in the Semaphore flag signaling system!

These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.

M
I
K
K
E
L

Have you ever waved the name Mikkel

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.

M
I
K
K
E
L

Beeping like crazy...

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. Mikkel sounds like this: