Michal
#4,265 for girls in 2025, 33 births · #5,861 for boys in 2025, 15 births
Given to girls 51.6% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1942 · 81 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,031since 1938
Michal over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,265 | 33 | #5,861 | 15 |
| 2024 | #3,516 | 44 | #8,312 | 9 |
| 2023 | #3,640 | 42 | #12,239 | 5 |
| 2022 | #3,703 | 41 | #5,019 | 19 |
| 2021 | #4,413 | 31 | #5,110 | 18 |
| 2020 | #3,841 | 37 | #5,235 | 17 |
| 2019 | #4,437 | 31 | #6,777 | 12 |
| 2018 | #4,001 | 36 | #5,540 | 16 |
| 2017 | #3,247 | 49 | #6,685 | 12 |
| 2016 | #3,060 | 54 | #4,470 | 22 |
| 2015 | #3,915 | 38 | #4,890 | 19 |
| 2014 | #3,585 | 43 | #4,392 | 22 |
| 2013 | #4,156 | 35 | #3,339 | 32 |
| 2012 | #4,047 | 37 | #3,894 | 26 |
| 2011 | #2,868 | 60 | #3,000 | 38 |
| 2010 | #3,203 | 51 | #2,874 | 41 |
| 2009 | #3,409 | 48 | #2,585 | 48 |
| 2008 | #3,316 | 50 | #2,291 | 57 |
| 2007 | #3,653 | 44 | #2,281 | 57 |
| 2006 | #3,795 | 40 | #2,082 | 63 |
| 2005 | #3,212 | 48 | #2,061 | 60 |
| 2004 | #2,556 | 65 | #1,953 | 62 |
| 2003 | #3,187 | 46 | #1,962 | 59 |
| 2002 | #2,673 | 57 | #2,224 | 47 |
| 2001 | #2,600 | 58 | #2,185 | 47 |
| 2000 | #2,426 | 63 | #1,666 | 69 |
| 1999 | #2,405 | 61 | #1,671 | 63 |
| 1998 | #2,026 | 73 | #1,585 | 66 |
| 1997 | #2,138 | 65 | #1,693 | 58 |
| 1996 | #1,947 | 73 | #1,517 | 66 |
| 1995 | #2,216 | 60 | #1,955 | 43 |
| 1994 | #1,905 | 74 | #1,409 | 69 |
| 1993 | #2,417 | 52 | #1,472 | 63 |
| 1992 | #2,033 | 67 | #1,981 | 40 |
| 1991 | #2,215 | 59 | #1,502 | 58 |
| 1990 | #1,974 | 69 | #1,336 | 69 |
| 1989 | #2,054 | 61 | #1,550 | 52 |
| 1988 | #1,587 | 82 | #1,355 | 58 |
| 1987 | #1,812 | 64 | #1,295 | 57 |
| 1986 | #1,932 | 57 | #1,457 | 47 |
| 1985 | #1,410 | 90 | #1,125 | 68 |
| 1984 | #1,535 | 74 | #1,507 | 41 |
| 1983 | #1,608 | 69 | #1,375 | 46 |
| 1982 | #1,873 | 57 | #1,342 | 49 |
| 1981 | #1,615 | 72 | #1,334 | 49 |
| 1980 | #1,833 | 59 | #1,695 | 34 |
| 1979 | #1,645 | 68 | #1,753 | 32 |
| 1978 | #1,690 | 62 | #1,913 | 26 |
| 1977 | #1,682 | 62 | #1,490 | 38 |
| 1976 | #1,286 | 85 | #1,179 | 53 |
| 1975 | #1,756 | 53 | #1,258 | 46 |
| 1974 | #1,733 | 52 | #1,244 | 45 |
| 1973 | #1,979 | 41 | #1,400 | 36 |
| 1972 | #2,173 | 35 | #1,083 | 56 |
| 1971 | #2,477 | 30 | #1,466 | 34 |
| 1970 | #2,522 | 29 | #1,253 | 44 |
| 1969 | #2,254 | 32 | #1,168 | 45 |
| 1968 | #2,630 | 23 | #1,034 | 51 |
| 1967 | #2,212 | 29 | #1,165 | 41 |
| 1966 | #2,191 | 29 | #1,059 | 48 |
| 1965 | #2,247 | 28 | #1,106 | 45 |
| 1964 | #1,975 | 36 | #1,327 | 35 |
| 1963 | #1,981 | 35 | #1,215 | 41 |
| 1962 | #2,312 | 27 | #1,259 | 38 |
| 1961 | #3,189 | 16 | #910 | 71 |
| 1960 | #2,307 | 26 | #1,072 | 52 |
| 1959 | #2,517 | 21 | #926 | 68 |
| 1958 | #2,117 | 28 | #1,040 | 54 |
| 1957 | #2,416 | 22 | #944 | 64 |
| 1956 | #1,835 | 34 | #897 | 69 |
| 1955 | #1,774 | 35 | #976 | 59 |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 | #908 | 66 |
| 1953 | #1,648 | 36 | #999 | 52 |
| 1952 | #1,560 | 38 | #927 | 59 |
| 1951 | #1,555 | 37 | #1,052 | 46 |
| 1950 | #1,433 | 41 | #1,181 | 37 |
| 1949 | #1,189 | 58 | #1,063 | 44 |
| 1948 | #1,858 | 26 | #1,145 | 39 |
| 1947 | #1,377 | 45 | #1,336 | 30 |
| 1946 | #1,439 | 37 | #1,382 | 26 |
| 1945 | #1,482 | 30 | #1,633 | 17 |
| 1944 | #1,609 | 26 | #1,483 | 21 |
| 1943 | #996 | 63 | #1,764 | 17 |
| 1942 | #853 | 81 | #2,042 | 13 |
| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 | #1,903 | 14 |
| 1940 | #3,208 | 8 | #2,478 | 9 |
| 1939 | #4,250 | 5 | — | |
| 1938 | #4,342 | 5 | — | |
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| 1928 | — | #3,076 | 8 | |
| 1927 | — | #3,151 | 8 | |
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| 1925 | — | #3,408 | 7 | |
| 1924 | — | #4,347 | 5 | |
| 1923 | — | #3,467 | 7 | |
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| 1920 | — | #2,967 | 9 | |
| 1919 | — | #2,665 | 10 | |
| 1918 | — | #2,398 | 12 | |
| 1917 | — | #2,956 | 8 | |
| 1916 | — | #3,516 | 6 | |
| 1915 | — | #3,392 | 6 | |
| 1914 | — | #2,101 | 10 | |
| 1913 | — | #2,821 | 5 | |
| 1912 | — | #2,045 | 7 | |
| 1911 | — | #1,740 | 5 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Michal! It came in at #4,342, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1938–1939, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Michal
- 749 spots since 2024 (#3,516 → #4,265)
- 424 spots since 2020 (#3,841 → #4,265)
- 350 spots since 2015 (#3,915 → #4,265)
- Biggest jump: 3,567 spots in 1942 (#4,420 → #853)
- Biggest drop: 613 spots in 1944 (#996 → #1,609)
- Debuted 1938
- Peaked 1942 at #853 (81 births)
- Births halved by 1944, 2 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 2 yrs · run 1942–1943
- Highest: 1 in 16,676 girls born in 1942 were named Michal (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 48,705 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 17.0% of all girls named Michal (685) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 2008, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1930s | 10 | #4,250 (1939) | #4,296 |
| 1940s | 379 | #853 (1942) | #1,843 |
| 1950s | 325 | #1,433 (1950) | #1,866 |
| 1960s | 281 | #1,975 (1964) | #2,330 |
| 1970s | 517 | #1,286 (1976) | #1,894 |
| 1980s | 685 | #1,410 (1985) | #1,726 |
| 1990s | 653 | #1,905 (1994) | #2,128 |
| 2000s | 519 | #2,426 (2000) | #3,083 |
| 2010s | 434 | #2,868 (2011) | #3,652 |
| 2020s | 228 | #3,516 (2024) | #3,896 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Michal in 1938
Top girls' names in 1938
More about 1938
girls
1,103,456 girls got a published name in 1938; 1 in 220,691 of them was named Michal, which outranked 13.1% of the 4,995 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Tied with 653 names at #4,342; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.