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Mickey
Pronounced /ˈmɪki/
Rank in 2024
#1,639
Born in 2024
103
Peak year
1957 · #248
Origin
Not recorded
Also recorded for girls:14 in 2024 (#7,685)
1880 to 2024
UncommonIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 103 boys were named Mickey, about 1 in every 16,654.
- It peaked in 1957 with 950 babies, ranked #248.
- It first shows up in the records in 1898.
- 27,553 boys have been named Mickey since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Mickey per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- 0.2Silent1928–45
- 0.3Boomers1946–64
- 0.2Gen X1965–80
- <0.1Millennials1981–96
- <0.1Gen Z1997–12
- <0.1Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 848 babies, 0.05 per 1,000. Silent: 4,265 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,671 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen X: 5,677 babies, 0.21 per 1,000. Millennials: 2,568 babies, 0.08 per 1,000. Gen Z: 1,362 babies, 0.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 1,155 babies, 0.05 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
The proper noun is derived from Mick (“diminutive of the male given name Michael”) + -ey (a variant of -y (diminutive suffix)). The common noun is derived from the proper noun. Noun senses 1 (“Mickey Mouse cartoon”) and 3.2 (“type of bombsight assisted by radar”) are short forms of Mickey Mouse. Noun sense 2 (“synonym of Mick”) refers to the fact that since the 17th century Michael and its diminutives Mick, Mickey, and Mike have been one of the most common names in Ireland, and that many Irish people are Roman Catholic. Noun sense 3.1 is a short form of Mickey Finn.
- A diminutive of the male given name Michael.
- A diminutive of the female given names Michaela and Michelle.
- Origin
- Not recorded
- Say it
- /ˈmɪki/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Mickey, CC BY-SA 4.0.