Michalene
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Michalene has been given to 483 babies in the U.S. since 1923. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1947, with 24 recorded.
Babies named Michalene, 2005
1 in 769,000
Michalene over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Michalene?
Michalene had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2005, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2005
- 1 in 769,000
- 5 of 3,844,258 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 369,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2005
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 532,928 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Michalene sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2005 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 532,928 children born in 2005 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michalene. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Michalenes were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Michalene was born before 1956 — so the typical Michalene is around 69 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1940s
- 29.6% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 3.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 328
- People you could plausibly meet
1940s — 29.6% of all recorded uses (143).
Is Michalene rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1947 (24)
- Years since peak
- 78
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.7% average annual change
Spellings of Michalene
Michalene is not the most common spelling — Michaele is, with 27.2% against Michalene's 7.2%.
- Michaele27.2%1,816
- Michaelene21.4%1,429
- Micheline19.0%1,266
- Michaeline14.0%936
- Michelene11.2%750
- Michalene7.2%483
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Michalene is used
Across 1910–2025, Michalene was most concentrated in Illinois — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 539,050 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Illinois1 in —
- 2Pennsylvania1 in —
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Michalene has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Michalene by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Michalene
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Michalene
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.