Mikel is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “Who is like God.” In 2024 it was given to 91 boys in the United States.
Mikel at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish · French
Meaning
“Who is like God”
About the name Mikel
Mikel belongs to the Spanish and French tradition. Its meaning — “Who is like God” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Mikel first appears in Social Security records in 1882. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #513 in 1953, and in 2024 91 babies received the name — 11,476 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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