Michaline
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Michaline has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1915. 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 1953, with 11 recorded.
Babies named Michaline, 1963
1 in 792,000
Michaline 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Michaline?
Michaline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1963, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 1963
- 1 in 792,000
- 5 of 3,958,455 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 385,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 1963
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 548,760 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Michaline sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 1963 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 548,760 children born in 1963 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michaline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Michalines were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Michaline was born before 1941 — so the typical Michaline is around 84 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1950s
- 30.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 53.0%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 51
- People you could plausibly meet
1950s — 30.5% of all recorded uses (46).
Is Michaline 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
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1953 (11)
- Years since peak
- 72
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.0% average annual change
Spellings of Michaline
Michaline is not the most common spelling — Michelina is, with 32.6% against Michaline's 2.2%.
- Michelina32.6%2,191
- Michaelene21.3%1,429
- Micheline18.8%1,266
- Michaeline13.9%936
- Michelene11.2%750
- Michaline2.2%151
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.
Michaline by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Michaline
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Michaline
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.