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Micky

Micky is a boy's name that peaked in 1961, when it was the 842nd most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 7,194th. About 2,600 Mickys are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 54.

Popularity, 1880–2025

Births per year, 1880 to 2025 0 25 50 75 100 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

girls named Micky boys named Micky

Girls and boys called Micky

Share of the name given to girls, 1880 to 2025 0% 25% 50% 75% 100% 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

years more girls than boys years more boys than girls

Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 562 girls and 2,584 boys in all, and in 1994 the split was 6 to 19.

The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 45 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.

By the numbers

Total US births
3,146
Estimated living today
2,600
Median age today
54
Peak year
1961
Best rank
842nd
Rank in 2025
7,194th
First recorded
1922
Girls / boys
562 / 2,584

How old the living Mickys are

Born with the name each year, and how many of them are alive today, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

born that year still alive today

Of the 3,146 babies given the name since 1922, about 2,600 are alive — 82 in every hundred. Roughly 210 of them are children and 680 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1971 and half after.

An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.

Notable Mickys

People named Micky with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).

Where Micky is most common

Relative to how many babies each state records, Micky is most concentrated in Texas (4.8×), North Carolina (3.9×), Georgia (3.1×), Tennessee (3.1×).

Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.

Names of 1961

The most popular boys’ names the year Micky peaked:

All the names of 1961

Micky elsewhere

CountrySpelling BirthsBest rank
England and Wales boys Micky 324 1,313th
France boys Micky 275 831st
Belgium boys Micky 29 794th
France girls Micky 5 3,410th

Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.

Micky: rank by region

In 1999, Micky was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.

Region Spelling Place Children
Wallonia Micky 316 7

Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.

Micky among the living

How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.

Country Spelling First forename Any forename
Finland boys Micky 19 20

A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.

Related names

Micky against another name

Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.

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Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.