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Michalina

#14,349 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Michael

Michalina has been given to 205 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #14,349 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2020, with 12 recorded.

Babies named Michalina, 2025

1 in 553,000

Michalina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michalina: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michalina means

Michalina is a feminine form of Michael.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Michalina is used in Polish.

Another recorded pronunciation is /ˌmi.xa.ˈli.na/ for Michalina.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Michalina is a feminine form of Michael. Michael has more than one origin or interpretation.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Polish Michalina or a variant of Michaelina.

Excerpt from Wiktionary: Michalina (English) · CC BY-SA 4.0

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Michalina is used in English and Polish.

Michalina comes through Polish Michalina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael, Michaelina and Michaela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Polish, Michalina is pronounced /mi.xaˈli.na/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 205 girls were recorded with the name Michalina between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 12 in 2020; its best national rank was #2,117 in 1911.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #8,770 in 2020 to #14,349 in 2025.

How common is Michalina?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,349
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michalina sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michalina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michalinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michalina was born before 2003 — so the typical Michalina is around 22 today.

Median birth year
2003
About 22 years old
Biggest decade
1910s
22.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
52.2%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
138
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Choose a decade

1910s — 22.9% of all recorded uses (47).

Is Michalina 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,579
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2020 (12)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.7% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,117
1911

Spellings of Michalina

Michalina is not the most common spelling — Michelina is, with 35.7% against Michalina's 3.3%.

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.

Michalina around the world

Where Michalina ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2006–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    2008–2023
    #630
    in 2023
  • Ireland
    2007–2023
    #495
    in 2023
  • France
    1927–2021
    #6,623
    in 2021

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Michalina by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,349
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,579
Best rank ever
#2,117
1911
Peak year
2020
12 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
205
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Michalina

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Michalina

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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