Last name: MITCHELL
Welcome at Geneanet!
With Geneanet, find your ancestors from home, create your family tree for free, and explore and share your family history. Genealogy has never been easier, thanks to our database of 9 billion individuals, and our community of enthusiasts.
All you have to know about the last name MITCHELL
Last name frequency
MITCHELL : This last name is indexed 1,095,701 times on Geneanet!Origin of last name
MITCHELL : 1: English and Scottish: from the vernacular pronunciation in Middle English and Older Scots of the personal name Michael. See Michelson.2: English and Scottish: nickname for a big man from Middle English michel mechel muchel ‘big’.3: Irish (County Connacht): surname adopted as equivalent of Mulvihill.
Learn moreVariants of last name
The spelling of names may have changed over the centuries. Knowing these names variants will help you build your family tree.
Search a name
Discover your ancestors and build your family tree step by step through billions of data included in our members' family trees and through civil records.
Most popular first names
- John (94,072)
- William (54,086)
- James (48,330)
- Thomas (33,748)
- Mary (30,765)
- Robert (25,018)
- Elizabeth (23,347)
- George (23,332)
- Margaret (16,216)
- Charles (14,810)
- Henry (13,719)
- David (12,531)
- Joseph (12,513)
- Sarah (12,165)
- Alexander (11,222)
- Ann (10,478)
- Jane (10,452)
- Edward (9,212)
- Samuel (8,069)
- Richard (7,880)
- Janet (6,460)
- Andrew (5,827)
- Hannah (5,295)
- Mary Ann (5,124)
- Agnes (5,076)
- Martha (4,747)
- Frank (4,703)
- Mr. (4,627)
- Walter (4,342)
- Peter (4,318)
- Anne (4,293)
- Catherine (4,240)
- Jean (4,194)
- Maria (4,095)
- Helen (4,004)
- Eliza (3,668)
- Alice (3,557)
- Arthur (3,394)
- Isabella (3,314)
- Hugh (3,277)
- Harry (3,230)
- Jonathan (3,135)
- Ellen (3,070)
- Benjamin (2,994)
- Fred (2,646)
- Francis (2,589)
- Maggie (2,535)
- Alfred (2,503)
- Annie (2,485)
- Matthew (2,436)
- Emma (2,404)
- Charley (2,370)
- Mrs. (2,356)
- Michael (2,341)
- Stephen (2,289)
- Donald (2,169)
- Jacob (2,143)
- Daniel (2,108)
- Grace (2,084)
- Susan (2,068)
Most indexed places
- Missouri (15,370)
- New (8,943)
- Washington (6,452)
- Edinburgh Parish, Edinburgh, Midlothian (4,443)
- Richmond (4,071)
- Virginia (3,964)
- Ireland (3,896)
- Dundee,angus (3,632)
- Chicago (3,590)
- London (3,504)
- England (3,382)
- Cornwall (3,037)
- Falkirk, Stirling (2,977)
- Saint Cuthberts, Edinburgh, Midlothian (2,812)
- New York (2,755)
- Scotland (2,709)
- Paris (2,706)
- Otago (2,431)
- Portland (2,411)
- Tennessee (2,274)
- Dublin (2,205)
- Philadelphia (2,203)
- Luddenden, York (2,163)
- Auckland (2,152)
- Kentucky (2,129)
- North Carolina (2,121)
- Pennsylvania (2,097)
- Wellington (2,081)
- Ohio (1,934)
- San Bernardino (1,927)
- Indiana (1,901)
- San-Francisco (1,886)
- North (1,866)
- Boston (1,861)
- Norwich (1,833)
- Halifax, Yorkshire (1,826)
- Halifax, York (1,818)
- Galway (1,790)
- Bridgewater, Plymouth (1,783)
- Cuckfield, Sussex (1,765)
- Texas (1,638)
- California (1,632)
- Dunfermline (1,628)
- Georgia (1,627)
- Melbourne (1,602)
- Alabama (1,596)
- Liverpool (1,593)
- Antrim (1,591)
- Saint Nicholas,aberdeen,aberdeen (1,587)
- Kent (1,549)
- Los (1,548)
- Glasgow, Lanarkshire (1,527)
- Baltimore (1,502)
- South (1,477)
- Colyton (1,430)
- Londonderry (1,428)
- Dewsbury, York (1,425)
- Los Angeles (1,424)
- Horsham, Sussex (1,399)
- Illinois (1,388)
Most indexed countries
- United Kingdom (527,705)
- United States (363,736)
- Australia (43,961)
- Ireland (41,694)
- New Zealand (25,456)
- Canada (15,292)
- France (13,173)
- Unknown country (5,370)
- Netherlands (2,589)
- Germany (1,488)
- Spain (1,238)
- Italy (1,202)
- Belgium (1,171)
- Switzerland (1,126)
- India (684)
- Mexico (628)
- Colombia (599)
- Gibraltar (454)
Available collections for this name
- Archives
(526,367) - Family Trees
(235,820) - Newspapers
(227,910) - Books
(85,313) - Other
(12,903) - Obituaries
(3,424) - Magazines
(2,469) - Cemeteries
(1,000) - Memorials
(460) - Coats of Arms
(35)