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How popular is “Mikal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mikal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mikal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mikal” 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
1943 6 0.000002126 6 -100%
1944 8 0.000002974 8 -100%
1945 7 0.000002639 7 100%
1946 13 0.000004068 8 5 23%
1947 7 0.000001943 7 100%
1948 6 0.000001738 6 -100%
1949 6 0.000001722 6 -100%
1950 5 0.000001427 5 -100%
1951 11 0.000002986 11 -100%
1952 7 0.000001843 7 -100%
1953 16 0.000004152 16 -100%
1955 8 0.000001992 8 -100%
1956 12 0.00000291 12 -100%
1957 14 0.000003332 14 -100%
1958 8 0.000001935 8 -100%
1959 13 0.000003127 13 -100%
1960 9 0.000002167 9 -100%
1961 13 0.000003138 13 -100%
1962 16 0.000003965 16 -100%
1963 11 0.000002779 11 -100%
1964 13 0.000003344 13 -100%
1965 17 0.000004689 5 12 -41%
1966 9 0.000002589 9 -100%
1967 16 0.000004713 16 -100%
1968 23 0.000006808 5 18 -57%
1969 23 0.000006618 5 18 -57%
1970 23 0.000006377 7 16 -39%
1971 19 0.000005536 19 -100%
1972 26 0.000008272 26 -100%
1973 14 0.000004641 14 -100%
1974 45 0.000014803 20 25 -11%
1975 58 0.000019209 33 25 14%
1976 66 0.000021751 17 49 -48%
1977 67 0.000021092 15 52 -55%
1978 85 0.000026781 14 71 -67%
1979 70 0.00002104 9 61 -74%
1980 67 0.000019451 13 54 -61%
1981 55 0.000015899 6 49 -78%
1982 54 0.000015394 5 49 -81%
1983 51 0.000014726 51 -100%
1984 55 0.000015765 9 46 -67%
1985 58 0.000016251 16 42 -45%
1986 63 0.000017711 11 52 -65%
1987 63 0.000017473 15 48 -52%
1988 66 0.000017862 21 45 -36%
1989 55 0.000014306 12 43 -56%
1990 86 0.000021759 17 69 -60%
1991 67 0.0000172 8 59 -76%
1992 89 0.000023169 13 76 -71%
1993 180 0.000047742 22 158 -76%
1994 152 0.000040886 20 132 -74%
1995 155 0.000042325 22 133 -72%
1996 118 0.000032354 16 102 -73%
1997 149 0.000041095 21 128 -72%
1998 107 0.00002909 13 94 -76%
1999 132 0.000035735 12 120 -82%
2000 98 0.000025927 13 85 -73%
2001 96 0.000025645 14 82 -71%
2002 88 0.00002354 7 81 -84%
2003 86 0.000022618 6 80 -86%
2004 94 0.000024601 10 84 -79%
2005 72 0.000018726 7 65 -81%
2006 88 0.000022244 13 75 -70%
2007 72 0.00001801 7 65 -81%
2008 47 0.000011957 5 42 -79%
2009 49 0.000012827 8 41 -67%
2010 48 0.000012988 9 39 -63%
2011 38 0.000010389 6 32 -68%
2012 43 0.000011757 7 36 -67%
2013 54 0.000014812 13 41 -52%
2014 26 0.000007015 5 21 -62%
2015 35 0.000009457 8 27 -54%
2016 34 0.000009268 6 28 -65%
2017 28 0.00000783 28 -100%
2018 41 0.000011661 9 32 -56%
2019 33 0.000009508 6 27 -64%
2020 37 0.000011076 8 29 -57%
2021 21 0.000006198 21 -100%
2022 21 0.000006207 21 -100%
2023 31 0.000009362 31 -100%
2024 22 0.00000661 22 -100%

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