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See the popularity of first names over time in the USA

How popular is “Mykal” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mykal” by birth year

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

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

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

Bias in sex for “Mykal” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mykal” 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%
1975 5 0.000001656 5 100%
1978 7 0.000002206 7 -100%
1980 8 0.000002323 8 -100%
1981 17 0.000004914 7 10 -18%
1983 6 0.000001732 6 -100%
1984 6 0.00000172 6 -100%
1985 9 0.000002522 9 -100%
1986 17 0.000004779 8 9 -6%
1987 20 0.000005547 10 10 0%
1988 36 0.000009743 10 26 -44%
1989 36 0.000009364 11 25 -39%
1990 51 0.000012903 8 43 -69%
1991 41 0.000010526 12 29 -41%
1992 40 0.000010413 12 28 -40%
1993 46 0.000012201 13 33 -43%
1994 58 0.000015601 14 44 -52%
1995 56 0.000015292 14 42 -50%
1996 51 0.000013983 12 39 -53%
1997 63 0.000017376 19 44 -40%
1998 79 0.000021478 24 55 -39%
1999 72 0.000019492 17 55 -53%
2000 69 0.000018254 18 51 -48%
2001 78 0.000020837 19 59 -51%
2002 54 0.000014445 15 39 -44%
2003 46 0.000012098 9 37 -61%
2004 53 0.000013871 12 41 -55%
2005 49 0.000012744 6 43 -76%
2006 49 0.000012386 12 37 -51%
2007 39 0.000009756 13 26 -33%
2008 42 0.000010685 6 36 -71%
2009 31 0.000008115 5 26 -68%
2010 23 0.000006223 23 -100%
2011 28 0.000007655 8 20 -43%
2012 26 0.000007109 26 -100%
2013 17 0.000004663 17 -100%
2014 31 0.000008364 7 24 -55%
2015 23 0.000006215 23 -100%
2016 16 0.000004361 16 -100%
2017 10 0.000002796 10 -100%
2018 14 0.000003982 6 8 -14%
2019 12 0.000003457 12 -100%
2020 19 0.000005688 19 -100%
2021 8 0.000002361 8 -100%
2022 14 0.000004138 14 -100%
2023 11 0.000003322 11 -100%
2024 5 0.000001502 5 -100%

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