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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Midas” in the USA?

Number of people named “Midas” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Midas” by birth year

This chart shows how “Midas” 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
2011 5 0.000001367 5 -100%
2012 12 0.000003281 12 -100%
2014 11 0.000002968 11 -100%
2015 15 0.000004053 15 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 16 0.000004474 16 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 14 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 27 0.000008082 27 -100%
2021 29 0.00000856 29 -100%
2022 38 0.000011232 38 -100%
2023 45 0.00001359 45 -100%
2024 28 0.000008412 28 -100%

Explore other names

These names are alphabetically near to Midas:

  1. Micole
  2. Micquel
  3. Mictlan
  4. Mida
  5. Midajah
  6. Midas (this page)
  7. Middie
  8. Middleton
  9. Midge
  10. Midgie
  11. Midhuna