Mitchell was originally a surname, derived from the first name Michael. Michael is of Hebrew origin and means ‘who is like God?’, a rhetorical question, implying no one is like God.
Mitchell is a male first name. In very rare cases it is also used for girls.
The name Mitchell 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, Mitchell ranks 576. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 3 were named Mitchell. In the entire USA, approximately 158,876 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mitchell. That is 0.05 % of all living Americans.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Mitchell is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Mitchell for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Mitchell is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Mitchell is a very special name, which reached its peak of popularity only in the last quarter of the 20th century, ranking in the top 100 boys' names in our SmartGenius statistics: With position 69 Mitchell has never been more popular than back in 1994.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mitchell was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Mitchell may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Mitchell is apparently especially popular in Minnesota. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 512 men in Minnesota is called Mitchell. In total, that’s 5,952 people who feel addressed when the name Mitchell is shouted loudly across Minnesota and who ensure that their name makes it to #114 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Mitchell as the answer a total of 158,876 times. This places Mitchell at #203 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Mitchell as a baby name is, of course, a bit 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 eight letters, the name Mitchell is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with 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 Mitchell 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 Mitchell, 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. Mitchell sounds like this:
