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Michelina

#6,741 in 2025Girls' name

Diminutive of Michele

Michelina has been given to 2,191 babies in the U.S. since 1903. In 2025 it ranked #6,741 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1922, with 56 recorded.

Babies named Michelina, 2025

1 in 195,000

Michelina over time, 1880–2025

Girls
020406018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michelina: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Michele

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michelina means

Michelina is a diminutive of Michele.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Michelina → Michele → Michelle. The family’s meaning is “who is like God?”, recorded in English with the source elements mikhaél.

Dictionary etymologyReferences, data & attribution

From Italian Michelina, from Michele (“Michael”) + -ina (feminine diminutive suffix).

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

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

Origin, language, and formation

Michelina is used in English.

Michelina comes through Italian Michelina.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michele.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,191 girls were recorded with the name Michelina between 1903 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 56 in 1922; its best national rank was #970 in 1917.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #7,827 in 2020 to #6,741 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #9,934 in 2015 to #6,741 in 2025.

How common is Michelina?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 195,000
17 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 94,500
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#6,741
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
135,172 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michelina 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 135,172 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michelina. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michelinas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michelina was born before 1941 — so the typical Michelina is around 84 today.

Median birth year
1941
About 84 years old
Biggest decade
1920s
20.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
15.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
939
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1920s — 20.3% of all recorded uses (444).

Is Michelina 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
+103
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,086
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,193
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.55×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
30.4%
Peak was 1922 (56)
Years since peak
103
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
25.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#970
1917

Spellings of Michelina

Michelina is not the most common spelling — Michela is, with 26.2% against Michelina's 25.9%.

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 Michelina is used

Across 1910–2025, Michelina was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 42,862 across all states with data. It was least common in Illinois (1 in —).

05 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 20,000
  2. 2Massachusetts1 in 50,000
  3. 3New Jersey1 in 50,000
  4. 4Connecticut1 in 100,000
  5. 5Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  6. 6Rhode Island1 in 100,000
  7. 7Illinois1 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. Michelina has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michelina around the world

Where Michelina 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.

  • France
    1925–1972
    #2,213
    in 1972
  • South Australia
    1954–2011
    #840
    in 2011

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Notable people named Michelina

People whose public names include Michelina, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Michelina by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#6,741
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,086
Best rank ever
#970
1917
Peak year
1922
56 that year
First recorded
1903
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,191
Count in 2025
17

Names similar to Michelina

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

MichalinaMichaellaMichaelinaMickaylaMichealaKatharinaAugustinaCelestinaMichellaMichelaKatherinaCarmelinaMarcelinaMichaelleJosephinaKhristinaMichelineMicaiahSeraphinaEkaterinaWilheminaErnestinaFaustinaMichaele

Names with a curve like Michelina

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Michelina, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

AileneGregoriaFelipaRosariaOmegaJackAugustinaMadlynTomasaLaveraOneidaElenor

Sibling names for Michelina

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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