Mechel
- Last seen for girls in 1987 at #11,325
- #7,194 for boys in 2025, 11 births
- Given to boys 76.7% of the time
Showing
- Peak · boys
- 1960 · 5 births
- Debut · boys
- 5 births
- In top 100 · boys
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · boys
- 231since 1960
Mechel over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | — | #7,194 | 11 | |
| 2024 | — | #6,832 | 12 | |
| 2023 | — | #6,220 | 14 | |
| 2022 | — | #6,147 | 14 | |
| 2021 | — | #8,825 | 8 | |
| 2020 | — | #5,980 | 14 | |
| 2019 | — | #7,643 | 10 | |
| 2018 | — | #5,106 | 18 | |
| 2017 | — | #6,060 | 14 | |
| 2016 | — | #8,816 | 8 | |
| 2015 | — | #9,568 | 7 | |
| 2014 | — | #7,562 | 10 | |
| 2013 | — | #8,118 | 9 | |
| 2012 | — | #7,559 | 10 | |
| 2011 | — | #10,808 | 6 | |
| 2010 | — | #9,693 | 7 | |
| 2009 | — | — | ||
| 2008 | — | #8,324 | 9 | |
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| 2006 | — | #8,732 | 8 | |
| 2005 | — | #7,640 | 9 | |
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| 2003 | — | #9,581 | 6 | |
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| 2000 | — | #10,349 | 5 | |
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| 1996 | — | #9,015 | 5 | |
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| 1994 | — | #6,968 | 7 | |
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| 1988 | — | #7,270 | 5 | |
| 1987 | #11,325 | 5 | — | |
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| 1985 | #9,307 | 6 | — | |
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| 1979 | #10,210 | 5 | — | |
| 1978 | #9,750 | 5 | — | |
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| 1970 | #7,070 | 6 | — | |
| 1969 | #5,974 | 7 | — | |
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| 1967 | #4,625 | 9 | — | |
| 1966 | #5,809 | 6 | — | |
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| 1964 | #6,767 | 5 | — | |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 | — | |
| 1962 | #6,578 | 5 | — | |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 | #4,038 | 5 |
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First appearance
1960
The first year at least five boys were named Mechel! It came in at #4,038, and was given to 5 baby boys.
Quietest stretch: 1960–1993, when fewer than 6 boys a year got the name.
Where Mechel is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more boys named Mechel in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Mechel
Momentum · boys
Holding steady
- 362 spots since 2024 (#6,832 → #7,194)
- 1,214 spots since 2020 (#5,980 → #7,194)
- 2,374 spots since 2015 (#9,568 → #7,194)
Rise & fade · boys
Peaked on debut
- Debuted 1960
- Peaked 1960 at #4,038 (5 births)
- Births halved by 1961, 1 yr later
Top of the charts · boys
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · boys
1 in 100,898
- Highest: 1 in 100,898 boys born in 2018 were named Mechel (0.00%)
- Latest: 1 in 155,280 boys born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #4,038 in 1960, was only 1 in 426,464 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · boys
The 2010s
- 42.9% of all boys named Mechel (99) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 1988
- Mostly girls until 1987, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 5 | #4,038 (1960) | #4,038 |
| 1970s | 0 | — | — |
| 1980s | 5 | #7,270 (1988) | #7,270 |
| 1990s | 12 | #6,968 (1994) | #7,992 |
| 2000s | 37 | #7,640 (2005) | #8,925 |
| 2010s | 99 | #5,106 (2018) | #8,093 |
| 2020s | 73 | #5,980 (2020) | #6,866 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 boys in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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