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Micheline

Girls' name

Who is like God?, through Michel

Micheline has been given to 1,266 babies in the U.S. since 1919. 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 1951, with 50 recorded.

Babies named Micheline, 2021

1 in 565,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Micheline: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Micheline means

Micheline belongs to the name family reached through Micheline → Michel. Its meaning is “Who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Micheline is used in French.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Micheline is pronounced /miʃ.lin/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,266 girls were recorded with the name Micheline between 1919 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 50 in 1951; its best national rank was #1,325 in 1951.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Micheline?

Micheline had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2021
1 in 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Micheline 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Micheline. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michelines were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Micheline was born before 1963 — so the typical Micheline is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
22.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
2.3%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,005
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 22.3% of all recorded uses (282).

Is Micheline 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
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1951 (50)
Years since peak
74
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
32.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,325
1951

Spellings of Micheline

Micheline is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 78.0% against Micheline's 0.12%.

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 Micheline is used

Across 1910–2025, Micheline was most concentrated in New York — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 164,576 across all states with data. It was least common in New Jersey (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1New York1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Florida1 in —
  4. 4New Jersey1 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. Micheline has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Micheline around the world

Where Micheline 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
    1900–2016
    #5,932
    in 2016
  • Canada
    1991–2000
    #2,195
    in 2000
  • South Australia
    1948–2010
    #801
    in 2010

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

Micheline by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,325
1951
Peak year
1951
50 that year
First recorded
1919
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,266
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Micheline

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

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Sibling names for Micheline

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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