How popular is “Mickey” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mickey” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mickey” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mickey” 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
1898	7	0.000018351		7	-100%
1900	6	0.000013326	6		100%
1902	7	0.0000181		7	-100%
1903	10	0.000026233	10		100%
1906	11	0.000025674	5	6	-9%
1907	15	0.000032231	8	7	7%
1908	7	0.000014325	7		100%
1909	19	0.000037166	7	12	-26%
1910	29	0.000049093	12	17	-17%
1911	24	0.000037251	16	8	33%
1912	29	0.00002935	17	12	17%
1913	35	0.00003078	15	20	-14%
1914	52	0.000036714	23	29	-12%
1915	70	0.000038201	29	41	-17%
1916	71	0.000036704	38	33	7%
1917	65	0.000032391	30	35	-8%
1918	88	0.000040532	36	52	-18%
1919	94	0.000044545	47	47	0%
1920	123	0.000054361	67	56	9%
1921	131	0.000056115	79	52	21%
1922	131	0.000057226	71	60	8%
1923	135	0.000058632	72	63	7%
1924	165	0.000069281	98	67	19%
1925	159	0.000068144	90	69	13%
1926	153	0.00006664	89	64	16%
1927	175	0.000075452	84	91	-4%
1928	187	0.000082709	94	93	1%
1929	195	0.000088953	90	105	-8%
1930	217	0.000097603	93	124	-14%
1931	206	0.000097891	68	138	-34%
1932	268	0.000126937	99	169	-26%
1933	230	0.000115032	83	147	-28%
1934	248	0.000119414	81	167	-35%
1935	262	0.000125365	84	178	-36%
1936	241	0.000116	68	173	-44%
1937	239	0.000112171	67	172	-44%
1938	309	0.000139656	89	220	-42%
1939	316	0.000143412	71	245	-55%
1940	464	0.000201504	100	364	-57%
1941	448	0.000183876	94	354	-58%
1942	574	0.000210116	140	434	-51%
1943	516	0.000182813	121	395	-53%
1944	507	0.00018847	117	390	-54%
1945	513	0.000193373	116	397	-55%
1946	605	0.00018934	116	489	-62%
1947	691	0.000191821	137	554	-60%
1948	782	0.000226501	231	551	-41%
1949	769	0.000220674	220	549	-43%
1950	712	0.000203234	211	501	-41%
1951	736	0.000199797	185	551	-50%
1952	674	0.000177462	173	501	-49%
1953	789	0.000204741	168	621	-57%
1954	751	0.00018866	168	583	-55%
1955	766	0.000190781	136	630	-64%
1956	970	0.000235263	149	821	-69%
1957	1091	0.000259629	141	950	-74%
1958	895	0.000216502	106	789	-76%
1959	834	0.000200578	122	712	-71%
1960	765	0.000184168	124	641	-68%
1961	742	0.000179127	106	636	-71%
1962	685	0.000169749	100	585	-71%
1963	588	0.000148552	88	500	-70%
1964	568	0.000146105	61	507	-79%
1965	526	0.000145085	47	479	-82%
1966	484	0.000139254	50	434	-79%
1967	582	0.000171434	59	523	-80%
1968	504	0.000149182	32	472	-87%
1969	425	0.000122291	41	384	-81%
1970	431	0.000119506	37	394	-83%
1971	376	0.000109546	34	342	-82%
1972	374	0.000118995	47	327	-75%
1973	357	0.000118334	38	319	-79%
1974	382	0.000125658	48	334	-75%
1975	358	0.000118567	35	323	-80%
1976	355	0.000116996	38	317	-79%
1977	353	0.000111129	30	323	-83%
1978	263	0.000082864	20	243	-85%
1979	278	0.000083559	29	249	-79%
1980	233	0.000067644	19	214	-84%
1981	227	0.000065619	17	210	-85%
1982	195	0.000055588	17	178	-83%
1983	226	0.000065255	19	207	-83%
1984	213	0.000061053	23	190	-78%
1985	184	0.000051553	13	171	-86%
1986	168	0.00004723	14	154	-83%
1987	163	0.000045207	10	153	-88%
1988	162	0.000043843	17	145	-79%
1989	192	0.000049942	11	181	-89%
1990	169	0.000042758	17	152	-80%
1991	161	0.000041332	15	146	-81%
1992	174	0.000045297	14	160	-84%
1993	136	0.000036072	16	120	-76%
1994	145	0.000039003	21	124	-71%
1995	132	0.000036044	16	116	-76%
1996	173	0.000047434	12	161	-86%
1997	157	0.000043301	21	136	-73%
1998	108	0.000029362	12	96	-78%
1999	107	0.000028967	10	97	-81%
2000	114	0.000030159	16	98	-72%
2001	90	0.000024042	9	81	-80%
2002	93	0.000024878	7	86	-85%
2003	87	0.000022881	12	75	-72%
2004	89	0.000023293	6	83	-87%
2005	86	0.000022368	8	78	-81%
2006	72	0.000018199	7	65	-81%
2007	86	0.000021512	11	75	-74%
2008	95	0.000024169	10	85	-79%
2009	90	0.000023559	5	85	-89%
2010	71	0.000019211	5	66	-86%
2011	94	0.000025699	11	83	-77%
2012	73	0.00001996		73	-100%
2013	88	0.000024138	10	78	-77%
2014	105	0.00002833	6	99	-89%
2015	113	0.000030533	11	102	-81%
2016	100	0.000027258	11	89	-78%
2017	108	0.0000302	13	95	-76%
2018	100	0.000028442	20	80	-60%
2019	133	0.000038318	13	120	-80%
2020	121	0.000036221	15	106	-75%
2021	100	0.000029516	10	90	-80%
2022	124	0.000036652	18	106	-71%
2023	100	0.000030201	13	87	-74%
2024	117	0.000035151	14	103	-76%

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