girls:
52 births since 1981
#5664 (1st percentile)
boys:
494 births since 1949
#4092 (11th percentile)
overall:
546 births since 1949
#7193 (7th percentile)
The name Michae is the #7,193 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 546 recorded births since 1949. This represents the 7.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 7.0% of all names). For boys, it ranks #4,092 (10.7% percentile) for all time with 494 births since 1949. For girls, it ranks #5,664 (0.9% percentile) for all time with 52 births since 1981.
Michae first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1949 (1949 for boys and 1981 for girls). Birth data for Michae is available in 46 out of the 61 years between 1949 and 2009 (42 years for boys and 9 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Michae has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.5% of all recorded births being male. In 2009, 45.5% of babies named Michae were boys. Interestingly, until around 1994, the name was more popular for boys (95.7% boys from 1949 to 1993), but since then it has been more commonly used for girls (85.7% girls from 1994 to 2009).
For boys, Michae reached its peak popularity in 1960, achieving the 4.1% percentile (ranked #630) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1960, with 15 births per million (ranked 4.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2009.
For girls, Michae reached its peak popularity in 1994, achieving the 0.2% percentile (ranked #843) with 4 births per million. The name was most common in 1994, with 4 births per million (ranked 0.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2009.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Michae".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Michae. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 44.4% confident that Michae is pronounced as mih-KAY, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIH-kay, at 16.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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