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Mickey

Mickey: name meaning, origin & popularity

Meaning
“who is like God?”
Origin
Hebrew
Say it
MIK-ee · 2 syllables
Used for
Boys (81% of all uses)

Diminutive of Michael, and also used for Mick or sometimes Michelle. The spelling is especially familiar in English-speaking use.

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How popular is Mickey?

202435.0 per million US babies
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Drag the line or the slider to read any year. Values are per million US births recorded by Social Security. Records before about 1937 undercount births, so early peaks can look taller than they were.

Babies named Mickey in 2024117

2024 rank#1,639 boys

Peak year1957

Total US babies since 188034,086

Mickey is steady now but far below its 1957 peak.

Names like Mickey

Variants, related forms and names with the same roots.

  • Noahrest; comfort · Hebrew
  • Jamessupplanter · Hebrew
  • Elijahmy God is Yahweh · Hebrew
  • JohnYahweh is gracious · Hebrew
  • Michaelwho is like God? · Hebrew
  • Benjaminson of the right hand · Hebrew
  • Levijoined, attached · Hebrew
  • DanielGod is my judge · Hebrew

Mickey questions

What does the name Mickey mean?

Mickey means "who is like God?". It comes from Hebrew. Diminutive of Michael, and also used for Mick or sometimes Michelle. The spelling is especially familiar in English-speaking use.

Is Mickey a boy or girl name?

Mickey is mainly a boy's name in US records (81% of uses since 1880).

How popular is Mickey?

117 US babies were named Mickey in 2024. Its peak year was 1957.

How do you pronounce Mickey?

Mickey is usually pronounced MIK-ee.

Birth counts: US Social Security Administration national data, 1880–2024 (names given to 5+ babies of a sex in a year). How we write meanings.