Mitch

given name · English · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mitch is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. It appears chiefly in English and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: From English Mitch, from Mitchell.

rarermore common
  • AUAustralia1 in 6.8K◐
  • NLNetherlands1 in 12K
  • CACanada1 in 13K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈31K ◐

across 15 countries

Sources
238 ●

196K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 6.8K ◐

Australia

Meaning & origin●

From English Mitch, from Mitchell.

Sources 3

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary

Where in the world●

Sorted by estimated bearers.

Where Mitch is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States—≈17K160K rec.1 in 20K13KMitch238
AU Australia#784≈3.7K14K rec.1 in 6.8K4Mitch87
CA Canada—≈2.8K5.9K rec.1 in 13K6Mitch88
PH Philippines—≈2.3K2.6K rec.1 in 47K—Mitch49
GB United Kingdom—≈2.2K6.3K rec.1 in 29K4Mitch91
NL Netherlands—≈1.4K2K rec.1 in 12K1.9KMitch46
ZA South Africa—≈799△365 rec.1 in 71K—Mitch17
NZ New Zealand#585≈429562 rec.1 in 11K—Mitch39
BE Belgium—≈382444 rec.1 in 31K—Mitch31
SG Singapore—≈301516 rec.1 in 21K—Mitch20
SE Sweden—≈136116 rec.1 in 75K42Mitch15
DK Denmark—≈1529 rec.1 in 379K9Mitch14

Roughly 17K people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 20K). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English187K89%
  • Spanish4.7K2%
  • Dutch4.2K2%
  • Western Frisian3.7K2%
  • French2.6K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English186,78689%
Spanish4,7132%
Dutch4,1872%
Western Frisian3,7012%
French2,5961%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Over time●

0100200300400192019401960198020002020400 · 1961

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Mitch in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1916–2025
Yearrecords
19165
19336
19345
19396
19405
19427
19437
19445
194510
194611
194715
194823
194919
195016
195126
195228
195331
195446
195568
195674
1957207
1958285
1959295
1960331
1961400
1962351
1963304
1964185
1965131
196690
196773
196880
196967
197075
197149
197258
197341
197448
197540
197636
197735
197847
197951
198075
198171
198286
198362
198452
198581
198679
198780
198896
198993
199079
199160
199258
199365
199477
199556
199637
199746
199858
199936
200037
200139
200241
200330
200430
200534
200620
200728
200818
200921
201022
201123
201218
201311
201419
201516
201617
201721
201817
201910
202013
20217
20226
202312
202410
20256

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 89 years between 1916–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

19001920194019601980Mitch Miller, b. 1911Mitch Leigh, b. 1928Mitch McConnell, b. 1942Mitch Mitchell, b. 1947Mitch Daniels, b. 1949Mitch Pileggi, b. 1952Mitch Glazer, b. 1953Mitch Albom, b. 1958Mitch Landrieu, b. 1960Mitch Richmond, b. 1965

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 44 sources across 24 countries.

Official registers attesting Mitch
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202013K#2,094
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018)—1.9K#699
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—1.8K#1,463
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000941#24,827
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020930#27,452
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010888#27,228
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202095#2,094
NL NetherlandsSVB Kindernamen — annual newborn name frequency (Wayback-recovered)201745#341
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—42#15,365
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—32#13,646
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—21#76,335
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—20#29,450

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-03 data build · 221 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mitch?
We estimate roughly 31 thousand people bear Mitch (counting its spellings and scripts) across 15 countries in our records.
In which country does Mitch have the most bearers?
We estimate about 17 thousand people bear Mitch in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mitch.
Where is Mitch most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mitch is densest in Australia — about 1 in 6.8 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mitch compared with other names?
In New Zealand, Mitch is the 585th most common given name of 17,689 given names recorded there.
Is Mitch a male or female name?
Mitch is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Mitch mean?
Recorded meaning: From English Mitch, from Mitchell.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mitch” — the 585th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-08-31.

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