Mickey
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Pet form of Michael; from Heb
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 28 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/ˈmɪki/(recorded in a dictionary) English · from Wiktionary
Mickey is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- GDGrenada≈1 in 6.8K(inferred from the name graph)
- PGPapua New Guinea≈1 in 8.4K
- SGSingapore≈1 in 9.1Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 468 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
21,288 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Grenada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Pet form of Michael; from Heb. 'Who is like God?'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mickey, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mickey 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 | — | 21,288 | 1 in 16K | 17K | Mickey | 468 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈3,600 est. | ≈1 in 19K | listed | Mickey | 150 |
| IN India | — | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 457K | — | Mickey | 79 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈2,900 est. | ≈1 in 14K | 1 | Mickey | 161 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 31K | — | Mickey | 38 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.4K | 4 | — | 2 |
| SG Singapore | #767 | ≈670 est. | ≈1 in 9.1K | — | Mickey | 35 |
| DK Denmark | #797 | 519 | 1 in 11K | 519 | Mickey | 79 |
| GD Grenada | — | ≈17 est. | ≈1 in 6.8K | 8 | — | 1 |
| DM Dominica | — | ≈5 est. | ≈1 in 13K | 13 | — | 3 |
21,288 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Dominica — Revised List of Electors May 2025; Grenada — Consolidated List of Electors December 2025; PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022). 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)Mickey is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Americanized spelling of Dutch and German Micke or Muecke.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A small bottle of liquor, holding 375 ml or 13 oz., typically shaped to fit in one's pocket.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, diminutive of Michael or Michelle
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)- Mickey Spillaneb. 1918USAmerican crime novelist (1918–2006)
- Mickey Rooneyb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920–2014)
- Mickey Shaughnessyb. 1920USAmerican actor (1920-1985)
- Mickey Knoxb. 1921USAmerican actor, screenwriter, producer and novelist (1921–2013)
- Mickey Mantleb. 1931USAmerican baseball player (1931–1995)
- Mickey Kuhnb. 1932USAmerican actor (1932–2022)
- Mickey Deansb. 1934USAmerican musician and entrepreneur; fifth husband of Judy Garland (1934–2003)
- Mickey Jonesb. 1941USAmerican rock drummer and film actor (1941–2018)
- Mickey Johnsonb. 1952USAmerican basketball player
- Mickey Sumnerb. 1984GBBritish actress
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).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)49 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 28 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.3K | #7,186 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4K | #8,259 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 3.6K | #8,692 |
| PG Papua New Guinea | PNG Election Results Database — candidate names (1972–2022) | — | 1 | #35 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mickey a male or female name?
- Mickey is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Denmark (Danmarks Statistik).
- What are other forms of the name Mickey?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Where does the name Mickey come from?
- Pet form of Michael; from Heb. 'Who is like God?'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What does the name Mickey mean?
- Recorded meaning: Pet form of Michael; from Heb.
- How do you pronounce Mickey?
- In English /ˈmɪki/ (Wiktionary).
- How common is the name Mickey?
- In the United States, the national register counted 21,288 people named Mickey in 2020, about 1 in 16 thousand residents.
- How common is Mickey compared with other names?
- In Singapore, Mickey is the 767th most common given name of 52,448 given names recorded there.
- In which country does Mickey have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 21 thousand people named Mickey, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mickey.
What do you want to know about Mickey?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mickeyThe 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, “Mickey” — the 767th most common given name in Singapore. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.