Michale — #8379 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Michale

The Social Security Administration has registered 3,274 babies named Michale between 1922 and 2024, spanning 103 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Michale currently holds the #8379 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1956, when 85 babies received it in a single year. Michale is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 344 additional births since 1942.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michale performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 733 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Michale shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 365 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Michale in 17 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michale 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 3,274 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.