Michal — #3576 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Michal

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,996 babies named Michal between 1938 and 2024, spanning 87 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Michal currently holds the #3576 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1985, when 90 babies received it in a single year. Michal is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,766 additional births since 1911.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michal performed strongest in the 1980s, accumulating 685 births during that ten-year window. Across the 10 decades of recorded activity, Michal shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 733 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and New Jersey. In total, SSA state-level files list Michal in 15 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michal in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 3,996 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.