How popular is “Micheal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Micheal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Micheal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Micheal” 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	20	0.000099263		20	-100%
1881	17	0.000088226		17	-100%
1882	14	0.000063196		14	-100%
1883	13	0.000059923		13	-100%
1884	17	0.000069826		17	-100%
1885	11	0.000045671		11	-100%
1886	13	0.000050917		13	-100%
1887	10	0.000040422		10	-100%
1888	19	0.000063445		19	-100%
1889	8	0.000027687		8	-100%
1890	12	0.000039814		12	-100%
1891	6	0.00002093		6	-100%
1892	11	0.000032897		11	-100%
1893	11	0.000033823		11	-100%
1894	16	0.000047241		16	-100%
1895	8	0.000022791		8	-100%
1896	10	0.000027973		10	-100%
1897	17	0.000048997		17	-100%
1898	10	0.000026215		10	-100%
1899	18	0.000053061		18	-100%
1900	20	0.000044419		20	-100%
1901	14	0.000040484		14	-100%
1902	15	0.000038786		15	-100%
1903	20	0.000052466		20	-100%
1904	25	0.00006196		25	-100%
1905	31	0.000073127		31	-100%
1906	22	0.000051348		22	-100%
1907	21	0.000045123		21	-100%
1908	21	0.000042976		21	-100%
1909	29	0.000056727		29	-100%
1910	25	0.000042322		25	-100%
1911	38	0.000058981		38	-100%
1912	59	0.000059713		59	-100%
1913	98	0.000086183		98	-100%
1914	123	0.000086843		123	-100%
1915	172	0.000093865		172	-100%
1916	181	0.000093568		181	-100%
1917	204	0.000101657		204	-100%
1918	190	0.000087513		190	-100%
1919	159	0.000075347		159	-100%
1920	174	0.000076901		174	-100%
1921	166	0.000071107		166	-100%
1922	128	0.000055916		128	-100%
1923	157	0.000068187		157	-100%
1924	184	0.000077259	5	179	-95%
1925	168	0.000072001	5	163	-94%
1926	127	0.000055316		127	-100%
1927	140	0.000060362		140	-100%
1928	116	0.000051306		116	-100%
1929	110	0.000050179		110	-100%
1930	123	0.000055323		123	-100%
1931	122	0.000057974		122	-100%
1932	124	0.000058732	6	118	-90%
1933	101	0.000050514		101	-100%
1934	105	0.000050558		105	-100%
1935	129	0.000061725		129	-100%
1936	128	0.00006161		128	-100%
1937	143	0.000067115		143	-100%
1938	189	0.000085421		189	-100%
1939	245	0.00011119		245	-100%
1940	298	0.000129414		298	-100%
1941	417	0.000171152	6	411	-97%
1942	534	0.000195474	13	521	-95%
1943	667	0.00023631	10	657	-97%
1944	743	0.0002762	11	732	-97%
1945	951	0.000358474		951	-100%
1946	1250	0.000391199	12	1238	-98%
1947	1644	0.000456372	15	1629	-98%
1948	1814	0.000525414	13	1801	-99%
1949	2398	0.000688136	17	2381	-99%
1950	2840	0.000810651	17	2823	-99%
1951	3283	0.000891214	7	3276	-100%
1952	3629	0.000955502	16	3613	-99%
1953	4006	0.001039536	19	3987	-99%
1954	4210	0.001057601	32	4178	-98%
1955	4547	0.001132481	16	4531	-99%
1956	4762	0.001154974	30	4732	-99%
1957	4860	0.001156553	30	4830	-99%
1958	4597	0.001112024	28	4569	-99%
1959	4406	0.001059646	35	4371	-98%
1960	4163	0.001002211	32	4131	-98%
1961	4048	0.000977235	31	4017	-98%
1962	3816	0.000945638	43	3773	-98%
1963	3576	0.000903441	40	3536	-98%
1964	3119	0.000802293	33	3086	-98%
1965	2801	0.000772594	37	2764	-97%
1966	2681	0.000771365	34	2647	-97%
1967	2743	0.000807977	42	2701	-97%
1968	2649	0.000784096	45	2604	-97%
1969	2760	0.000794171	41	2719	-97%
1970	2675	0.000741713	43	2632	-97%
1971	2591	0.000754875	34	2557	-97%
1972	2658	0.00084569	49	2609	-96%
1973	2530	0.000838613	54	2476	-96%
1974	2548	0.000838158	57	2491	-96%
1975	2494	0.000825994	53	2441	-96%
1976	2235	0.000736578	54	2181	-95%
1977	2289	0.000720606	74	2215	-94%
1978	2114	0.000666064	55	2059	-95%
1979	2189	0.00065795	53	2136	-95%
1980	2210	0.000641601	57	2153	-95%
1981	2063	0.000596351	40	2023	-96%
1982	1947	0.000555023	39	1908	-96%
1983	1958	0.00056535	49	1909	-95%
1984	1861	0.000533428	28	1833	-97%
1985	1800	0.000504327	42	1758	-95%
1986	1810	0.000508845	41	1769	-95%
1987	1797	0.000498389	32	1765	-96%
1988	1809	0.000489575	24	1785	-97%
1989	1854	0.000482254	21	1833	-98%
1990	1792	0.000453386	21	1771	-98%
1991	1650	0.000423591	15	1635	-98%
1992	1503	0.000391277	19	1484	-97%
1993	1326	0.000351698	18	1308	-97%
1994	1285	0.000345648	12	1273	-98%
1995	1172	0.00032003	16	1156	-97%
1996	1084	0.000297215	16	1068	-97%
1997	1076	0.000296766	8	1068	-99%
1998	1064	0.000289271	11	1053	-98%
1999	1066	0.000288586	11	1055	-98%
2000	1004	0.000265615	10	994	-98%
2001	889	0.000237485	14	875	-97%
2002	796	0.000212932	5	791	-99%
2003	776	0.000204086	5	771	-99%
2004	706	0.000184772	11	695	-97%
2005	689	0.000179201	5	684	-99%
2006	696	0.000175927	6	690	-98%
2007	655	0.000163845	8	647	-98%
2008	584	0.000148575		584	-100%
2009	540	0.000141355		540	-100%
2010	466	0.000126091	5	461	-98%
2011	423	0.000115644		423	-100%
2012	360	0.000098431		360	-100%
2013	349	0.00009573		349	-100%
2014	281	0.000075815		281	-100%
2015	268	0.000072415		268	-100%
2016	242	0.000065963		242	-100%
2017	243	0.000067949		243	-100%
2018	204	0.000058022		204	-100%
2019	172	0.000049554		172	-100%
2020	193	0.000057774		193	-100%
2021	174	0.000051359		174	-100%
2022	146	0.000043155		146	-100%
2023	156	0.000047113		156	-100%
2024	142	0.000042662		142	-100%

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