How popular is “Michell” in the USA?

Number of people named “Michell” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Michell” by birth year

This chart shows how “Michell” 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
1926	5	0.000002178		5	-100%
1927	5	0.000002156		5	-100%
1945	6	0.000002262		6	-100%
1946	10	0.00000313	10		100%
1947	14	0.000003886	5	9	-29%
1948	16	0.000004634	8	8	0%
1949	16	0.000004591	9	7	13%
1950	18	0.000005138	8	10	-11%
1951	15	0.000004072	15		100%
1952	31	0.000008162	23	8	48%
1953	22	0.000005709	14	8	27%
1954	42	0.000010551	33	9	57%
1955	42	0.000010461	29	13	38%
1956	34	0.000008246	29	5	71%
1957	56	0.000013327	48	8	71%
1958	56	0.000013547	43	13	54%
1959	89	0.000021405	75	14	69%
1960	103	0.000024796	89	14	73%
1961	95	0.000022934	86	9	81%
1962	128	0.00003172	110	18	72%
1963	137	0.000034612	123	14	80%
1964	144	0.000037041	131	13	82%
1965	146	0.000040271	139	7	90%
1966	198	0.000056968	185	13	87%
1967	285	0.00008395	273	12	92%
1968	259	0.000076663	247	12	91%
1969	286	0.000082295	272	14	90%
1970	295	0.000081796	275	20	86%
1971	296	0.000086238	290	6	96%
1972	261	0.000083042	252	9	93%
1973	264	0.000087507	255	9	93%
1974	268	0.000088158	251	17	87%
1975	244	0.000080811	233	11	91%
1976	191	0.000062947	182	9	91%
1977	168	0.000052888	159	9	89%
1978	151	0.000047576	142	9	88%
1979	152	0.000045687	137	15	80%
1980	132	0.000038322	126	6	91%
1981	153	0.000044228	148	5	93%
1982	153	0.000043615	137	16	79%
1983	121	0.000034937	116	5	92%
1984	120	0.000034396	110	10	83%
1985	103	0.000028859	94	9	83%
1986	94	0.000026426	80	14	70%
1987	102	0.000028289	94	8	84%
1988	100	0.000027063	86	14	72%
1989	101	0.000026272	89	12	76%
1990	114	0.000028843	100	14	75%
1991	89	0.000022848	75	14	69%
1992	77	0.000020045	63	14	64%
1993	94	0.000024932	89	5	89%
1994	81	0.000021788	75	6	85%
1995	77	0.000021026	70	7	82%
1996	55	0.00001508	48	7	75%
1997	73	0.000020134	61	12	67%
1998	48	0.00001305	48		100%
1999	70	0.00001895	62	8	77%
2000	100	0.000026456	94	6	88%
2001	86	0.000022974	80	6	86%
2002	64	0.00001712	58	6	81%
2003	87	0.000022881	87		100%
2004	84	0.000021984	84		100%
2005	73	0.000018986	73		100%
2006	90	0.000022749	90		100%
2007	90	0.000022513	90		100%
2008	80	0.000020353	73	7	82%
2009	59	0.000015444	59		100%
2010	44	0.000011906	35	9	59%
2011	37	0.000010115	37		100%
2012	26	0.000007109	26		100%
2013	33	0.000009052	33		100%
2014	27	0.000007285	27		100%
2015	16	0.000004323	16		100%
2016	12	0.000003271	12		100%
2017	12	0.000003356	12		100%
2018	5	0.000001422	5		100%
2019	5	0.000001441	5		100%
2020	9	0.000002694	9		100%
2021	7	0.000002066	7		100%
2022	7	0.000002069	7		100%
2023	8	0.000002416	8		100%
2024	10	0.000003004	10		100%

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