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How popular is “Mychael” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mychael” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mychael” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mychael” 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
1972 5 0.000001591 5 -100%
1978 16 0.000005041 16 -100%
1979 7 0.000002104 7 -100%
1980 6 0.000001742 6 -100%
1981 11 0.00000318 11 -100%
1982 21 0.000005986 5 16 -52%
1983 23 0.000006641 5 18 -57%
1984 19 0.000005446 19 -100%
1985 46 0.000012888 7 39 -70%
1986 40 0.000011245 6 34 -70%
1987 60 0.000016641 5 55 -83%
1988 75 0.000020297 9 66 -76%
1989 91 0.000023671 8 83 -82%
1990 72 0.000018216 11 61 -69%
1991 65 0.000016687 11 54 -66%
1992 41 0.000010674 41 -100%
1993 52 0.000013792 5 47 -81%
1994 43 0.000011566 12 31 -44%
1995 37 0.000010103 9 28 -51%
1996 42 0.000011516 15 27 -29%
1997 45 0.000012411 9 36 -60%
1998 49 0.000013322 15 34 -39%
1999 32 0.000008663 32 -100%
2000 37 0.000009789 8 29 -57%
2001 44 0.000011754 11 33 -50%
2002 39 0.000010433 10 29 -49%
2003 39 0.000010257 15 24 -23%
2004 40 0.000010469 12 28 -40%
2005 37 0.000009623 7 30 -62%
2006 37 0.000009352 7 30 -62%
2007 49 0.000012257 8 41 -67%
2008 35 0.000008904 7 28 -60%
2009 39 0.000010209 39 -100%
2010 30 0.000008117 6 24 -60%
2011 38 0.000010389 5 33 -74%
2012 39 0.000010663 9 30 -54%
2013 28 0.00000768 28 -100%
2014 21 0.000005666 21 -100%
2015 26 0.000007025 26 -100%
2016 22 0.000005997 22 -100%
2017 9 0.000002517 9 -100%
2018 19 0.000005404 19 -100%
2019 13 0.000003745 13 -100%
2020 15 0.00000449 5 10 -33%
2021 11 0.000003247 11 -100%
2022 10 0.000002956 10 -100%
2023 8 0.000002416 8 -100%

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