The Mikkelsen Name: Records, Origin and Blazon

The Mikkelsen last name has Danish roots. Smith's 1956 dictionary gives the meaning “the son of Mikkel (who is like God)”. Like many surnames, it grew out of a personal name.

About 2,150 people in the United States were recorded as Mikkelsen in 2010, placing it 14,006 on the national list. It sits within the 25,000 most common last names in the country.

A coat of arms was granted to a particular family line, not to everyone named Mikkelsen, so a shared surname is a clue rather than a claim to the arms. For the full story, order the Mikkelsen surname pack.