girls:
6.5k births since 1900
#2038 (64th percentile)
boys:
27.4k births since 1898
#692 (85th percentile)
overall:
34k births since 1898
#1363 (82nd percentile)
The name Mickey is the #1,363 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 33,967 recorded births since 1898. This represents the 82.4% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 82.4% of all names). For boys, it ranks #692 (84.9% percentile) for all time with 27,448 births since 1898. For girls, it ranks #2,038 (64.3% percentile) for all time with 6,519 births since 1900.
Mickey first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1898 (1898 for boys and 1900 for girls). Birth data for Mickey is available in 122 out of the 126 years between 1898 and 2023. 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 Mickey has been given predominantly to boys, with 80.8% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 86.9% of babies named Mickey were boys.
For boys, Mickey reached its peak popularity in 1957, achieving the 63.6% percentile (ranked #240) with 434 births per million. The name was most common in 1957, with 434 births per million (ranked 63.6% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2010, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Mickey ranks #830 for boys (8.9% percentile) with 47 births per million, which is 10.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mickey reached its peak popularity in 1948, achieving the 30.8% percentile (ranked #475) with 133 births per million. The name was most common in 1948, with 133 births per million (ranked 30.8% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2014, the popularity of this name for girls has been increasing. Currently, Mickey ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 5.6% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mickey".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Mickey is pronounced as MIH-kee, which has 2 syllables.
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