Is Michal a male or female name?
Michal is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 51% and male usage in Poland at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- male
- Probability
- 99%
- Sample size
- 508,764
- Confidence
- high
Michal by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Poland PL | male | 100% | 493,758 | pesel |
| United States US | female | 51% | 7,761 | ssa |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 2,046 | ssb |
| England and Wales GB | male | 90% | 1,964 | ons |
| Switzerland CH | male | 90% | 1,908 | bfs |
| Spain ES | male | 100% | 445 | ine |
| Ireland IE | male | 100% | 361 | cso |
| Canada CA | male | 85% | 327 | statcan |
| France FR | male | 96% | 115 | insee |
| Austria AT | male | 73% | 79 | statat |
Attested in 17 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · CA · CH · CZ · ES · FR · GB · IE · IL · IN · NO · PL · SE · SK · US
Michal over time
In the United States, 62.2% of the babies named Michal in the 1940s were girls, against 74.3% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 62% | 609 |
| 1950s | 36% | 898 |
| 1960s | 37% | 748 |
| 1970s | 56% | 926 |
| 1980s | 58% | 1,186 |
| 1990s | 52% | 1,248 |
| 2000s | 48% | 1,088 |
| 2010s | 64% | 674 |
| 2020s | 74% | 261 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Michal with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Michal&country=PL" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Michal
Is Michal a male or female name?
Michal is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 51% and male usage in Poland at 100%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Michal change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Michal identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.