Mike
About 206,523 American babies have been named Mike since 1880, most of them around 1960. In 2025 it ranked 1,231st. About 132,000 Mikes are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 64.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mike boys named Mike
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 206,523
- Estimated living today
- 132,000
- Median age today
- 64
- Peak year
- 1960
- Best rank
- 36th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,231st
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 662 / 205,861
How old the living Mikes are
born that year still alive today
Of the 206,523 babies given the name since 1880, about 132,000 are alive — 64 in every hundred. Roughly 3,800 of them are children and 61,000 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1961 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Shortened from Michael.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mikes
- Mike Pence (born 1959)Vice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
- Mike Tyson (born 1966)American boxer and media personality
- Mike Myers (born 1963)Canadian actor, comedian and filmmaker
- Mike Pompeo (born 1963)American politician, United States Secretary of State
- Mike Shinoda (born 1977)American musician, rapper, singer and songwriter
- Mike Nichols (1931–2014)American director and comedian
- Mike Oldfield (born 1953)English musician
- Mike Johnson (born 1972)Speaker of the United States House of Representatives
People named Mike with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mike is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mike is most concentrated in Wyoming (2.6×), Montana (2.3×), New Mexico (2.2×), Oregon (2.1×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1960
The most popular boys’ names the year Mike peaked:
Mike elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| France boys | Mike | 8,805 | 133rd |
| Belgium boys | Mike | 1,435 | 81st |
| Switzerland boys | Mike | 1,305 | 63rd |
| Denmark boys | Mike | 1,223 | 35th |
| England and Wales boys | Mike | 356 | 1,273rd |
| Poland boys | Mike | 231 birth registrations | 246th |
| Norway boys | Mike | 220 | 328th |
| Ireland boys | Mike | 139 | 402nd |
| Scotland boys | Mike | 6 | 648th |
| Northern Ireland boys | Mike | 3 | 421st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mike: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mike | 1,158 | 0.093% | 53rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mike | 139 | 0.032% | 163rd |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mike | 8 | 0.012% | 125th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mike is most concentrated in Schwyz, where 0.18% of children were given it – 61 of them.
Mike: rank by region
In 2025, Mike was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mike | 714 | 7 |
In 2025, Mike was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kujawsko-Pomorskie | Mike | 141 | 3 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mike by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 9 | 404th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mike among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Mike | 17,570 | 19,042 |
| Finland boys | Mike | 219 | 265 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mike | 17 | 60 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mike lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 349 men called Mike were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Balears, Illes | Mike | 24 | 0.039 | 1,494 |
| Alicante/Alacant | Mike | 39 | 0.039 | 1,632 |
| Palmas, Las | Mike | 18 | 0.031 | 2,353 |
| Girona | Mike | 11 | 0.026 | 1,989 |
| Málaga | Mike | 22 | 0.025 | 1,828 |
| Lleida | Mike | 6 | 0.025 | 2,057 |
Listed in 19 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 33 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mike against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.