Mickel
surname · Latin script
Meaning: Prussian name Micol
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mickel is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 146K(measured from records)
- BZBelize≈1 in 24K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 99K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Sources
- 252 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 24K (inferred from the name graph)
2,281 people, 2010
Highest-authority source
Belize, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Prussian name Micol
Sources 1
- Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mickel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 2,281 | 1 in 146K | 2.3K | Mickel | 252 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈550 est. | ≈1 in 145K | — | Mickel | 65 |
| NG Nigeria | — | ≈300 est. | ≈1 in 718K | — | Mickel | 14 |
| EG Egypt | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 378K | — | Mickel | 29 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈250 est. | ≈1 in 262K | — | Mickel | 62 |
| SG Singapore | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 99K | — | Mickel | 7 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈49 est. | ≈1 in 181K | 5 | Mickel | 9 |
| BZ Belize | #702 | ≈16 est. | ≈1 in 24K | — | Mickel | 2 |
2,281 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mickel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, männl. Vom., schwedische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
In Swedish, a (name for a) fox
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Clarence Eugene Mickelb. 1892USAmerican biologist, ecologist, entomologist (1892–1982)
- Montie Montanab. 1910USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor (1910-1998)
- John Thomas Mickelb. 1934USAmerican botanist (1934–2024)
- Karl Mickelb. 1935DEGerman economist (1935-2000)
- John Mickelb. 1953AUAustralian politician
- Jeff Mickelb. 1966USAmerican football offensive lineman
- Finlay Mickelb. 1977GBScottish alpine skier
- Tom Mickelb. 1989DEGerman association football player
- Charlie Mickelb. 2004USAmerican freestyle skier
- Liselotte MickelDEGerman translator
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(measured from records)
Attested in 44 sources across 26 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 2.3K | #13,360 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 2.1K | #13,112 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 2.1K | #13,835 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 4
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mickel mean, and where does it come from?
- Prussian name Micol Recorded by Deutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung.
- In which country does Mickel have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 2.3 thousand people named Mickel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mickel.
- How common is the name Mickel?
- In the United States, the national register counted 2,281 people named Mickel in 2010, about 1 in 146 thousand residents.
- How common is Mickel compared with other names?
- In Belize, Mickel is the 702nd most common surname of 11,408 surnames recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mickelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Mickel” — the 702nd most common surname in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.