Michal is a first name for all genders. The name is given about equally often as boys and girls name.
Few children have been named Michal in recent years. Although it is used several times each year, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 children are currently called Michal. Whether you’re a boy or a girl, you will most likely be the only person with the special name Michal at your school. In our SmartGenius ranking, Michal is number *** on the list of most common first names.
While Michal is not one of the most popular names of all time, it seems to have attracted parents especially more than 50 years ago in the last century. In 1942, the name Michal reached its highest popularity with #1,407 in our ranking of all first names. As it is so exquisite, mothers and fathers did not always come up with the idea of naming their baby Michal. Perhaps it was because the name was only occasionally in keeping with the spirit of the times - and children in those decades were given the unusual and beautiful name of Michal.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Michal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, 59 babies were born with the name Michal. This puts the name in rank 5,024 in the SmartGenius statistics - or in other words, one in 5,603,422 newborns was named Michal that year. Ever since first names have been registered, Michal has been and remains marvelously unusual!
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for first names – 7.4% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A and J.
With six letters, the name Michal is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.3% of all first names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Michal and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Michal, you can simply say:
Mouse
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Michal
Michal
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Michal sounds like this: