How popular is “Michaela” in the USA?

Number of people named “Michaela” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Michaela” 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 “Michaela” by birth year

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

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

Bias in sex for “Michaela” by birth year

This chart shows how “Michaela” 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
1921	5	0.000002142	5		100%
1923	5	0.000002172	5		100%
1927	7	0.000003018	7		100%
1933	7	0.000003501	7		100%
1935	6	0.000002871	6		100%
1937	12	0.000005632	12		100%
1938	14	0.000006327	14		100%
1939	19	0.000008623	19		100%
1940	13	0.000005646	13		100%
1941	17	0.000006977	17		100%
1942	28	0.00001025	28		100%
1943	23	0.000008149	23		100%
1944	24	0.000008922	24		100%
1945	27	0.000010178	27		100%
1946	37	0.000011579	37		100%
1947	30	0.000008328	30		100%
1948	36	0.000010427	36		100%
1949	38	0.000010905	38		100%
1950	37	0.000010561	37		100%
1951	60	0.000016288	60		100%
1952	75	0.000019747	75		100%
1953	62	0.000016089	62		100%
1954	75	0.000018841	75		100%
1955	74	0.000018431	74		100%
1956	76	0.000018433	76		100%
1957	69	0.00001642	69		100%
1958	58	0.00001403	58		100%
1959	54	0.000012987	54		100%
1960	53	0.000012759	53		100%
1961	72	0.000017382	72		100%
1962	66	0.000016355	66		100%
1963	84	0.000021222	84		100%
1964	95	0.000024437	95		100%
1965	106	0.000029238	106		100%
1966	107	0.000030786	101	6	89%
1967	114	0.00003358	114		100%
1968	101	0.000029896	101		100%
1969	139	0.000039996	139		100%
1970	128	0.000035491	128		100%
1971	127	0.000037001	127		100%
1972	117	0.000037226	117		100%
1973	111	0.000036793	111		100%
1974	128	0.000042105	128		100%
1975	120	0.000039743	120		100%
1976	156	0.000051412	156		100%
1977	170	0.000053518	170		100%
1978	173	0.000054508	173		100%
1979	225	0.000067628	225		100%
1980	267	0.000077515	267		100%
1981	243	0.000070244	243		100%
1982	285	0.000081244	285		100%
1983	293	0.0000846	293		100%
1984	333	0.00009545	333		100%
1985	508	0.000142332	508		100%
1986	519	0.000145906	519		100%
1987	535	0.00014838	535		100%
1988	638	0.000172664	633	5	98%
1989	1005	0.000261416	998	7	99%
1990	878	0.000222139	878		100%
1991	783	0.000201013	783		100%
1992	960	0.000249917	960		100%
1993	1861	0.000493597	1853	8	99%
1994	3052	0.000820948	3044	8	99%
1995	3090	0.000843766	3083	7	100%
1996	3176	0.000870806	3176		100%
1997	3405	0.000939116	3398	7	100%
1998	3346	0.000909682	3341	5	100%
1999	2667	0.000722008	2657	10	99%
2000	2172	0.000574618	2172		100%
2001	1827	0.00048806	1827		100%
2002	1615	0.000432016	1615		100%
2003	1380	0.000362936	1380		100%
2004	1173	0.000306994	1167	6	99%
2005	1153	0.000299882	1153		100%
2006	1002	0.000253274	1002		100%
2007	971	0.000242891	971		100%
2008	922	0.000234566	922		100%
2009	876	0.000229309	876		100%
2010	814	0.000220254	814		100%
2011	777	0.000212423	777		100%
2012	726	0.000198503	726		100%
2013	744	0.000204078	744		100%
2014	663	0.000178881	663		100%
2015	647	0.000174822	647		100%
2016	674	0.000183716	674		100%
2017	608	0.000170013	608		100%
2018	591	0.000168094	591		100%
2019	492	0.000141749	492		100%
2020	446	0.00013351	446		100%
2021	522	0.000154076	522		100%
2022	516	0.000152521	516		100%
2023	459	0.000138621	459		100%
2024	378	0.000113565	378		100%

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