girls:
562 births since 1922
#5154 (10th percentile)
boys:
2.6k births since 1933
#2497 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.1k births since 1922
#4863 (37th percentile)
The name Micky is the #4,863 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,127 recorded births since 1922. This represents the 37.2% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.2% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,497 (45.5% percentile) for all time with 2,565 births since 1933. For girls, it ranks #5,154 (9.8% percentile) for all time with 562 births since 1922.
Micky first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1922 (1922 for girls and 1933 for boys). Birth data for Micky is available in 96 out of the 102 years between 1922 and 2023 (91 years for boys and 51 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 Micky has been given predominantly to boys, with 82.0% of all recorded births being male. In 2023, 100.0% of babies named Micky were boys. Interestingly, until around 1934, the name was more popular for girls (86.8% girls from 1922 to 1933), but since then it has been more commonly used for boys (82.9% boys from 1934 to 2023).
For boys, Micky reached its peak popularity in 1961, achieving the 11.7% percentile (ranked #588) with 38 births per million. The name was most common in 1967, with 44 births per million (ranked 11.5% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Micky ranks #901 for boys (1.1% percentile) with 8 births per million, which is 18.7% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Micky reached its peak popularity in 1952, achieving the 3.3% percentile (ranked #667) with 15 births per million. The name was most common in 1952, with 15 births per million (ranked 3.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2007.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Micky".
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Our model has identified 2 different pronunciations for the name Micky. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 90.5% confident that Micky is pronounced as MIH-kee, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MEE-kee, at 9.5% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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