Mitchell
At the 2020 census, 372,104 Americans bore the surname Mitchell — 47th out of 156,621 surnames on file. That is about one person in 803.
By the numbers
- People
- 372,104
- Rank
- 47th
- How common
- 1 in 803
- Per 100,000
- 124.5
Where the name comes from
Origin a given name
From a Middle English vernacular form of the Old French given name Michel (“Michael”), or in some cases from a Middle English nickname muchel (“big”).
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Who bears the name
How people with the surname Mitchell described their own race and Hispanic origin at the 2020 census:
Notable people called Mitchell
- Margaret Mitchell (1900–1949)American author and journalist
- Joni Mitchell (born 1943)Canadian musician
- Peter D. Mitchell (1920–1992)British biochemist
- Elizabeth Mitchell (born 1970)American actress
- Maria Mitchell (1818–1889)American astronomer
- Edgar Mitchell (1930–2016)American astronaut
- Thomas Mitchell (1892–1962)American actor, playwright and screenwriter
- Shay Mitchell (born 1987)Canadian actress
People named Mitchell with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Surnames like Mitchell
Also a first name
Mitchell has been given to 165,191 American babies as a first name since 1880, peaking in 1994. See it as a given name.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Census Bureau, Frequently Occurring Surnames, 2020. The Census describes the file as the surnames borne by 100 or more people; rarer names are not published. The line is not quite exact, and 617 published names come in under it, the smallest at 92 people. Race and Hispanic origin are self-reported. Rates are worked out against the 298.9 million people the file's own figures are calculated on, which is fewer than the census counted in all: the difference is everyone whose surname was too rare to publish.