How popular is “Michele” in the USA?

Number of people named “Michele” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Michele” by birth year

This chart shows how “Michele” 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
1905	5	0.000011795		5	-100%
1911	10	0.000015521		10	-100%
1912	5	0.00000506		5	-100%
1913	13	0.000011432		13	-100%
1914	14	0.000009885		14	-100%
1915	18	0.000009823	5	13	-44%
1916	34	0.000017576	10	24	-41%
1917	34	0.000016943	8	26	-53%
1918	26	0.000011975	9	17	-31%
1919	28	0.000013269	7	21	-50%
1920	29	0.000012817	7	22	-52%
1921	28	0.000011994	8	20	-43%
1922	23	0.000010047	8	15	-30%
1923	31	0.000013464	12	19	-23%
1924	31	0.000013016	12	19	-23%
1925	32	0.000013714	11	21	-31%
1926	36	0.00001568	19	17	6%
1927	29	0.000012503	15	14	3%
1928	34	0.000015038	19	15	12%
1929	24	0.000010948	11	13	-8%
1930	19	0.000008546	6	13	-37%
1931	15	0.000007128	8	7	7%
1932	38	0.000017998	27	11	42%
1933	40	0.000020006	28	12	40%
1934	27	0.000013001	22	5	63%
1935	33	0.00001579	33		100%
1936	46	0.000022141	37	9	61%
1937	46	0.000021589	46		100%
1938	65	0.000029378	53	12	63%
1939	57	0.000025869	57		100%
1940	111	0.000048205	102	9	84%
1941	180	0.000073879	172	8	91%
1942	739	0.000270516	728	11	97%
1943	973	0.000344723	958	15	97%
1944	1169	0.00043456	1159	10	98%
1945	961	0.000362244	948	13	97%
1946	1391	0.000435326	1375	16	98%
1947	2000	0.000555197	1984	16	98%
1948	1809	0.000523965	1799	10	99%
1949	2401	0.000688997	2381	20	98%
1950	2520	0.00071931	2500	20	98%
1951	2813	0.000763626	2793	20	99%
1952	3431	0.000903369	3406	25	99%
1953	3747	0.000972326	3723	24	99%
1954	4787	0.00120255	4763	24	99%
1955	4791	0.001193251	4768	23	99%
1956	4646	0.001126839	4617	29	99%
1957	4774	0.001136087	4746	28	99%
1958	5245	0.001268776	5212	33	99%
1959	5478	0.001317463	5445	33	99%
1960	5648	0.001359714	5610	38	99%
1961	7024	0.001695676	6992	32	99%
1962	7478	0.001853113	7429	49	99%
1963	7564	0.00191097	7512	52	99%
1964	7949	0.002044704	7905	44	99%
1965	8706	0.002401358	8665	41	99%
1966	10751	0.00309323	10686	65	99%
1967	10486	0.003088753	10418	68	99%
1968	11281	0.003339142	11219	62	99%
1969	10641	0.003061874	10556	85	98%
1970	10164	0.002818234	10090	74	99%
1971	8012	0.002334257	7955	57	99%
1972	7449	0.002370033	7380	69	98%
1973	6047	0.002004384	5996	51	98%
1974	5657	0.001860856	5587	70	98%
1975	5097	0.001688087	5033	64	97%
1976	4494	0.001481066	4443	51	98%
1977	3759	0.00118338	3711	48	97%
1978	3526	0.001110947	3484	42	98%
1979	2937	0.000882777	2879	58	96%
1980	2524	0.000732761	2487	37	97%
1981	2318	0.000670063	2271	47	96%
1982	2264	0.000645389	2227	37	97%
1983	1872	0.000540519	1836	36	96%
1984	1725	0.000494446	1692	33	96%
1985	1510	0.000423075	1477	33	96%
1986	1462	0.000411012	1424	38	95%
1987	1348	0.000373861	1310	38	94%
1988	1304	0.000352905	1272	32	95%
1989	1310	0.000340751	1267	43	93%
1990	1200	0.000303607	1164	36	94%
1991	1030	0.000264424	1007	23	96%
1992	845	0.000219979	822	23	95%
1993	738	0.000195741	711	27	93%
1994	584	0.000157088	563	21	93%
1995	488	0.000133255	471	17	93%
1996	412	0.000112964	397	15	93%
1997	339	0.000093498	324	15	91%
1998	315	0.00008564	299	16	90%
1999	273	0.000073906	256	17	88%
2000	269	0.000071166	247	22	84%
2001	291	0.000077737	265	26	82%
2002	227	0.000060723	207	20	82%
2003	231	0.000060752	213	18	84%
2004	214	0.000056007	196	18	83%
2005	158	0.000041094	147	11	86%
2006	160	0.000040443	149	11	86%
2007	122	0.000030518	107	15	75%
2008	110	0.000027985	97	13	76%
2009	98	0.000025653	88	10	80%
2010	82	0.000022188	72	10	76%
2011	68	0.00001859	58	10	71%
2012	72	0.000019686	62	10	72%
2013	72	0.000019749	63	9	75%
2014	53	0.0000143	48	5	81%
2015	61	0.000016482	61		100%
2016	73	0.000019898	60	13	64%
2017	45	0.000012583	36	9	60%
2018	39	0.000011092	31	8	59%
2019	38	0.000010948	28	10	47%
2020	43	0.000012872	35	8	63%
2021	30	0.000008855	22	8	47%
2022	40	0.000011823	33	7	65%
2023	33	0.000009966	24	9	45%
2024	35	0.000010515	35		100%

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