girls:
344 births since 1942
#5372 (6th percentile)
boys:
3.3k births since 1922
#2187 (52nd percentile)
overall:
3.6k births since 1922
#4556 (41st percentile)
The name Michale is the #4,556 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,609 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 41.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 41.1% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,187 (52.3% percentile) for all time with 3,265 births since 1922. For girls, it ranks #5,372 (6.0% percentile) for all time with 344 births since 1942.
Michale first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for boys and 1942 for girls). Birth data for Michale is available in 81 out of the 99 years between 1922 and 2020 (81 years for boys and 42 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 Michale has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 90.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Michale reached its peak popularity in 1956, achieving the 12.5% percentile (ranked #559) with 40 births per million. The name was most common in 1973, with 51 births per million (ranked 12.1% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2020.
For girls, Michale reached its peak popularity in 1978, achieving the 1.2% percentile (ranked #747) with 9 births per million. The name was most common in 1978, with 9 births per million (ranked 1.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2010.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Michale".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Michale. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 78.8% confident that Michale is pronounced as mih-KAYL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEE-kuhl, at 12.1% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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