Tracing the Mitchel Family Name

Mitchel and Mitchell are two spellings with one history. Read literally, Mitchel points to “Descendant of Michael (who is like God)”.

• Mitchel drops the “l” of Mitchell, a simplification that clerks often made.
• Before spelling was standardised, one family could appear under several forms.
• The Census Bureau's 2010 surname file lists Mitchel with 5,570 bearers, at rank 6,151. That is enough to place it in the top 10,000 American surnames.

Arms associated with the name

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