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Michi

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Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Michi has been given to 151 babies in the U.S. since 1916. 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 1973, with 23 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Michi, 2015

1 in 740,000

Michi over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Girls or boys — Michi over time

In 2015, Michi went to 100% girls and 0% boys.

19162015

A sex is only published in years it reached five applications, so a stretch at 0% or 100% means the other side stayed under that floor — not that it was never used.

Michi: meaning, origin, and history

Multiple documented origins; meaning depends on tradition

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michi means

Michi has more than one naming route in the cited origin entries: distinct naming traditions.

The naming story behind Michi

One of the source’s documented entries for Michi records a meaning of path.

A separate documented entry treats Michi as a diminutive of Michael. That is a personal-name relationship, which differs from translating the letters of the modern spelling into one universal English word. The linked origin entry identifies the context of this relationship.

Origin, language, and formation

Michi is used in Norman.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 143 girls were recorded with the name Michi between 1916 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 23 in 1973; its best national rank was #2,979 in 1973.

In the United States, 8 boys were recorded with the name Michi between 2005 and 2005. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2005; its best national rank was #8,824 in 2005.

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 Michi?

Michi had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 740,000
5 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 357,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
513,148 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michi 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 2015 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 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michi. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michis were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michi was born before 1961 — so the typical Michi is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
25.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
7.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
95
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 25.2% of all recorded uses (36).

Is Michi 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 1973 (23)
Years since peak
52
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
51.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,979
1973

Spellings of Michi

Michi is not the most common spelling — Vicki is, with 54.3% against Michi's 0.05%.

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 Michi is used

Across 1910–2025, Michi was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 806,773 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Washington1 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. Michi has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michi 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
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Best rank ever
#2,979
1973
Peak year
1973
23 that year
First recorded
1916
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
143
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,824
2005
Peak year
2005
8 that year
First recorded
2005
Last recorded
2005
All-time count
8
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michi

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

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Sibling names for Michi

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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