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How popular is “Michael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Michael” by birth year

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This chart shows how many people named “Michael” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Michael” by birth year

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This chart shows how the popularity of “Michael” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Michael” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Michael” by birth year

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This chart shows how “Michael” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year Count Proportion Females Males Bias toward female
1880 354 0.001756963 354 -100%
1881 298 0.001546542 298 -100%
1882 321 0.001448994 321 -100%
1883 307 0.001415105 307 -100%
1884 373 0.001532073 373 -100%
1885 370 0.0015362 370 -100%
1886 348 0.001363011 348 -100%
1887 344 0.0013905 344 -100%
1888 466 0.001556062 466 -100%
1889 377 0.001304742 377 -100%
1890 394 0.001307229 394 -100%
1891 333 0.001161606 333 -100%
1892 380 0.001136452 380 -100%
1893 407 0.001251449 407 -100%
1894 423 0.00124893 423 -100%
1895 413 0.001176568 413 -100%
1896 399 0.001116134 399 -100%
1897 375 0.001080826 7 368 -96%
1898 434 0.001137749 434 -100%
1899 375 0.001105432 375 -100%
1900 495 0.001099367 495 -100%
1901 384 0.00111043 384 -100%
1902 460 0.001189451 460 -100%
1903 466 0.001222449 466 -100%
1904 462 0.001145024 462 -100%
1905 513 0.001210123 513 -100%
1906 536 0.001251018 5 531 -98%
1907 586 0.001259156 586 -100%
1908 688 0.001407961 688 -100%
1909 642 0.00125581 7 635 -98%
1910 853 0.001444023 9 844 -98%
1911 1166 0.001809778 7 1159 -99%
1912 2112 0.00213752 8 2104 -99%
1913 2619 0.002303205 12 2607 -99%
1914 3378 0.00238501 16 3362 -99%
1915 4094 0.002234192 14 4080 -99%
1916 4228 0.002185674 18 4210 -99%
1917 4300 0.002142768 12 4288 -99%
1918 4326 0.001992527 30 4296 -99%
1919 3934 0.001864237 24 3910 -99%
1920 4025 0.001778893 22 4003 -99%
1921 4222 0.001808522 24 4198 -99%
1922 4021 0.001756543 31 3990 -98%
1923 3944 0.001712933 29 3915 -99%
1924 3910 0.001641745 36 3874 -98%
1925 3795 0.001626448 34 3761 -98%
1926 3517 0.001531863 32 3485 -98%
1927 3635 0.001567242 29 3606 -98%
1928 3630 0.001605539 33 3597 -98%
1929 3498 0.001595692 33 3465 -98%
1930 3578 0.001609328 36 3542 -98%
1931 3513 0.001669386 24 3489 -99%
1932 3627 0.001717917 20 3607 -99%
1933 3575 0.001788008 26 3549 -99%
1934 4127 0.00198719 20 4107 -99%
1935 4939 0.002363303 32 4907 -99%
1936 5840 0.002810989 40 5800 -99%
1937 7142 0.003352057 47 7095 -99%
1938 9132 0.004127323 58 9074 -99%
1939 10910 0.004951385 81 10829 -99%
1940 13308 0.005779461 80 13228 -99%
1941 16031 0.006579849 97 15934 -99%
1942 21885 0.008011324 156 21729 -99%
1943 24933 0.008833483 188 24745 -98%
1944 26885 0.009994215 168 26717 -99%
1945 30060 0.011331129 158 29902 -99%
1946 41361 0.012944422 169 41192 -99%
1947 50675 0.014067558 173 50502 -99%
1948 52736 0.015274702 170 52566 -99%
1949 60234 0.017285082 188 60046 -99%
1950 65316 0.018643774 179 65137 -99%
1951 72975 0.019810133 172 72803 -100%
1952 79228 0.020860421 190 79038 -100%
1953 84433 0.021910094 232 84201 -99%
1954 88779 0.022302449 216 88563 -100%
1955 88605 0.022068318 250 88355 -99%
1956 90932 0.022054611 239 90693 -99%
1957 93031 0.022139369 254 92777 -99%
1958 90909 0.021989241 295 90614 -99%
1959 85534 0.020577278 285 85249 -99%
1960 84469 0.020334763 316 84153 -99%
1961 87275 0.021070978 325 86950 -99%
1962 85390 0.021163268 355 85035 -99%
1963 84149 0.021258703 377 83772 -99%
1964 82920 0.021329552 303 82617 -99%
1965 81356 0.022440057 355 81001 -99%
1966 80333 0.023113612 346 79987 -99%
1967 82784 0.024384934 373 82411 -99%
1968 82444 0.024403535 471 81973 -99%
1969 85620 0.024636375 458 85162 -99%
1970 85727 0.023770124 457 85270 -99%
1971 78042 0.02273763 459 77583 -99%
1972 71838 0.022856375 452 71386 -99%
1973 68261 0.022626566 451 67810 -99%
1974 68066 0.022390131 525 67541 -98%
1975 68979 0.022845471 557 68422 -98%
1976 67433 0.022223489 515 66918 -98%
1977 68152 0.021455655 560 67592 -98%
1978 67680 0.021324461 545 67135 -98%
1979 68274 0.02052143 554 67720 -98%
1980 69233 0.020099638 546 68687 -98%
1981 69252 0.020018883 487 68765 -99%
1982 68807 0.019614641 576 68231 -98%
1983 68573 0.019800039 577 67996 -98%
1984 68250 0.019563409 508 67742 -99%
1985 65461 0.018341681 531 64930 -98%
1986 64817 0.018222654 590 64227 -98%
1987 64207 0.017808121 544 63663 -98%
1988 64643 0.017495381 480 64163 -99%
1989 65772 0.017108824 363 65409 -99%
1990 65590 0.016595623 277 65313 -99%
1991 61070 0.015678722 267 60803 -99%
1992 54657 0.014229592 258 54399 -99%
1993 49785 0.013205097 223 49562 -99%
1994 44662 0.012014049 192 44470 -99%
1995 41575 0.011353023 167 41408 -99%
1996 38526 0.010563623 157 38369 -99%
1997 37699 0.010397911 142 37557 -99%
1998 36745 0.009990245 128 36617 -99%
1999 34036 0.009214489 123 33913 -99%
2000 32156 0.008507349 114 32042 -99%
2001 29784 0.007956688 96 29688 -99%
2002 28352 0.007584535 95 28257 -99%
2003 27220 0.00715936 94 27126 -99%
2004 25617 0.00670491 148 25469 -99%
2005 23887 0.006213216 61 23826 -99%
2006 22713 0.005741703 64 22649 -99%
2007 22071 0.005521536 51 22020 -100%
2008 20700 0.005267044 55 20645 -99%
2009 19002 0.004975005 45 18957 -100%
2010 17413 0.004712398 37 17376 -100%
2011 16857 0.004609323 36 16821 -100%
2012 16234 0.004439586 27 16207 -100%
2013 15575 0.004273209 39 15536 -99%
2014 15528 0.004190622 35 15493 -100%
2015 14521 0.003924755 36 14485 -100%
2016 14163 0.003861736 34 14129 -100%
2017 12749 0.003566436 34 12715 -99%
2018 11760 0.003346471 20 11740 -100%
2019 10637 0.003066486 33 10604 -99%
2020 9843 0.002948909 24 9819 -100%
2021 9147 0.002702466 25 9122 -99%
2022 8895 0.002632739 19 8876 -100%
2023 8403 0.00254849 20 8383 -100%