How popular is “Michal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Michal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Michal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Michal” 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
1911	5	0.000007761		5	-100%
1912	7	0.000007085		7	-100%
1913	5	0.000004397		5	-100%
1914	10	0.00000706		10	-100%
1915	6	0.000003274		6	-100%
1916	6	0.000003102		6	-100%
1917	8	0.000003987		8	-100%
1918	12	0.000005527		12	-100%
1919	10	0.000004739		10	-100%
1920	9	0.000003978		9	-100%
1923	7	0.00000304		7	-100%
1924	5	0.000002099		5	-100%
1925	7	0.000003		7	-100%
1927	8	0.000003449		8	-100%
1928	8	0.000003538		8	-100%
1938	5	0.00000226	5		100%
1939	5	0.000002269	5		100%
1940	17	0.000007383	8	9	-6%
1941	19	0.000007798	5	14	-47%
1942	94	0.000034409	81	13	72%
1943	80	0.000028343	63	17	57%
1944	47	0.000017472	26	21	11%
1945	47	0.000017716	30	17	28%
1946	63	0.000019716	37	26	17%
1947	75	0.00002082	45	30	20%
1948	65	0.000018827	26	39	-20%
1949	102	0.00002927	58	44	14%
1950	78	0.000022264	41	37	5%
1951	83	0.000022531	37	46	-11%
1952	97	0.00002554	38	59	-22%
1953	88	0.000022836	36	52	-18%
1954	99	0.00002487	33	66	-33%
1955	94	0.000023412	35	59	-26%
1956	103	0.000024982	34	69	-34%
1957	86	0.000020466	22	64	-49%
1958	82	0.000019836	28	54	-32%
1959	89	0.000021405	21	68	-53%
1960	76	0.000018296	24	52	-37%
1961	88	0.000021244	17	71	-61%
1962	65	0.000016108	27	38	-17%
1963	75	0.000018948	35	40	-7%
1964	72	0.00001852	36	36	0%
1965	73	0.000020135	28	45	-23%
1966	77	0.000022154	29	48	-25%
1967	70	0.000020619	29	41	-17%
1968	74	0.000021904	23	51	-38%
1969	77	0.000022156	32	45	-17%
1970	73	0.000020241	29	44	-21%
1971	64	0.000018646	30	34	-6%
1972	91	0.000028953	35	56	-23%
1973	77	0.000025523	41	36	6%
1974	97	0.000031908	52	45	7%
1975	99	0.000032788	53	46	7%
1976	138	0.00004548	85	53	23%
1977	100	0.000031481	62	38	24%
1978	88	0.000027726	62	26	41%
1979	100	0.000030057	68	32	36%
1980	93	0.000027	59	34	27%
1981	121	0.000034977	72	49	19%
1982	106	0.000030217	57	49	8%
1983	115	0.000033205	69	46	20%
1984	115	0.000032963	74	41	29%
1985	158	0.000044269	90	68	14%
1986	104	0.000029237	57	47	10%
1987	121	0.000033559	64	57	6%
1988	140	0.000037889	82	58	17%
1989	113	0.000029393	61	52	8%
1990	138	0.000034915	69	69	0%
1991	117	0.000030036	59	58	1%
1992	107	0.000027855	67	40	25%
1993	115	0.000030502	52	63	-10%
1994	143	0.000038465	74	69	3%
1995	103	0.000028126	60	43	17%
1996	139	0.000038111	73	66	5%
1997	123	0.000033924	65	58	6%
1998	139	0.00003779	73	66	5%
1999	124	0.000033569	61	63	-2%
2000	132	0.000034922	63	69	-5%
2001	105	0.000028049	58	47	10%
2002	104	0.00002782	57	47	10%
2003	105	0.000027615	46	59	-12%
2004	127	0.000033238	65	62	2%
2005	108	0.00002809	48	60	-11%
2006	103	0.000026035	40	63	-22%
2007	101	0.000025265	44	57	-13%
2008	107	0.000027222	50	57	-7%
2009	96	0.00002513	48	48	0%
2010	92	0.000024894	51	41	11%
2011	98	0.000026792	60	38	22%
2012	63	0.000017226	37	26	17%
2013	67	0.000018378	35	32	4%
2014	65	0.000017537	43	22	32%
2015	57	0.000015402	38	19	33%
2016	76	0.000020716	54	22	42%
2017	61	0.000017057	49	12	61%
2018	52	0.00001479	36	16	38%
2019	43	0.000012389	31	12	44%
2020	54	0.000016165	37	17	37%
2021	49	0.000014463	31	18	27%
2022	60	0.000017735	41	19	37%
2023	47	0.000014194	42	5	79%
2024	51	0.000015322	43	8	69%

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