Baby name
CLASSIC
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Mitchell
/MIT · chel/
Meaning
“Who is like God”
English surname turned given name, from the medieval form of Michael meaning 'who is like God'; the surname origin gives it a preppy, Anglo-American weight.
Nicknames
mitch
Vibe
strongelegant
How it ages.
Peaked in the 1990s in the US; feels solidly Generation X, aging into respectability.
The cultural moment.
Top 100 in the US from the 1980s through the 1990s; still in use in Australia and the UK.