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How popular is “Mikael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mikael” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mikael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mikael” 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
1944 5 0.000001859 5 -100%
1946 5 0.000001565 5 -100%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 -100%
1948 9 0.000002607 9 -100%
1949 8 0.000002296 8 -100%
1950 14 0.000003996 14 -100%
1951 5 0.000001357 5 -100%
1952 16 0.000004213 16 -100%
1953 9 0.000002335 9 -100%
1954 13 0.000003266 13 -100%
1955 13 0.000003238 13 -100%
1956 16 0.000003881 16 -100%
1957 15 0.00000357 15 -100%
1958 13 0.000003145 13 -100%
1959 16 0.000003848 16 -100%
1960 11 0.000002648 11 -100%
1961 8 0.000001931 8 -100%
1962 10 0.000002478 10 -100%
1963 6 0.000001516 6 -100%
1964 12 0.000003087 12 -100%
1965 23 0.000006344 23 -100%
1966 16 0.000004603 16 -100%
1967 18 0.000005302 18 -100%
1968 17 0.000005032 17 -100%
1969 16 0.000004604 16 -100%
1970 20 0.000005546 20 -100%
1971 17 0.000004953 17 -100%
1972 33 0.0000105 5 28 -70%
1973 26 0.000008618 26 -100%
1974 31 0.000010197 5 26 -68%
1975 24 0.000007949 24 -100%
1976 43 0.000014171 12 31 -44%
1977 27 0.0000085 27 -100%
1978 40 0.000012603 6 34 -70%
1979 45 0.000013526 45 -100%
1980 43 0.000012484 43 -100%
1981 54 0.00001561 6 48 -78%
1982 57 0.000016249 8 49 -72%
1983 55 0.000015881 9 46 -67%
1984 37 0.000010606 5 32 -73%
1985 83 0.000023255 14 69 -66%
1986 72 0.000020241 7 65 -81%
1987 72 0.000019969 11 61 -69%
1988 88 0.000023816 9 79 -80%
1989 87 0.00002263 8 79 -82%
1990 76 0.000019228 6 70 -84%
1991 96 0.000024645 8 88 -83%
1992 84 0.000021868 10 74 -76%
1993 98 0.000025993 11 87 -78%
1994 92 0.000024747 8 84 -83%
1995 104 0.000028399 17 87 -67%
1996 95 0.000026047 10 85 -79%
1997 88 0.000024271 8 80 -82%
1998 112 0.00003045 19 93 -66%
1999 120 0.000032486 16 104 -73%
2000 109 0.000028837 8 101 -85%
2001 97 0.000025912 8 89 -84%
2002 104 0.00002782 8 96 -85%
2003 99 0.000026037 5 94 -90%
2004 105 0.00002748 5 100 -90%
2005 106 0.000027569 6 100 -89%
2006 128 0.000032354 5 123 -92%
2007 132 0.000033019 132 -100%
2008 132 0.000033582 132 -100%
2009 118 0.000030889 118 -100%
2010 136 0.000036799 136 -100%
2011 138 0.000037728 5 133 -93%
2012 170 0.000046482 6 164 -93%
2013 168 0.000046082 6 162 -93%
2014 157 0.000042359 7 150 -91%
2015 158 0.000042692 158 -100%
2016 223 0.000060785 8 215 -93%
2017 193 0.000053968 193 -100%
2018 164 0.000046645 164 -100%
2019 208 0.000059926 208 -100%
2020 186 0.000055679 186 -100%
2021 204 0.000060213 204 -100%
2022 191 0.000056457 191 -100%
2023 228 0.000068857 5 223 -96%
2024 187 0.000056181 187 -100%

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