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Michon

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Diminutive of Micheu

Michon has been given to 584 babies in the U.S. since 1941. 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 1964, with 31 recorded. It's used for both sexes: 95% girls, 5% boys all-time.

Babies named Michon, 1999

1 in 738,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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

In 2011, Michon went to 0% girls and 100% boys.

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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.

Michon: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Micheu

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michon means

Michon is a diminutive of Micheu.

Origin, language, and formation

Michon is used in Occitan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Micheu.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 555 girls were recorded with the name Michon between 1941 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 31 in 1964; its best national rank was #2,176 in 1964.

In the United States, 29 boys were recorded with the name Michon between 1986 and 2011. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2004; its best national rank was #7,443 in 1986.

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 Michon?

Michon had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1999, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1999
1 in 738,000
5 of 3,692,373 births
Among girls only
1 in 355,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 1999
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
511,873 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michon 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 1999 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 511,873 children born in 1999 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michon. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michons were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michon was born before 1973 — so the typical Michon is around 52 today.

Median birth year
1973
About 52 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
32.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
43.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
550
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Choose a decade

1960s — 32.3% of all recorded uses (179).

Is Michon 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 1964 (31)
Years since peak
61
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.1% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,176
1964

Spellings of Michon

Michon is not the most common spelling — Michal is, with 26.7% against Michon's 3.7%.

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 Michon is used

Across 1910–2025, Michon was most concentrated in Nevada — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 680,350 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nevada1 in 100,000
  2. 2California1 in —
  3. 3Washington1 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. Michon has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michon 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
#2,176
1964
Peak year
1964
31 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
555
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,443
1986
Peak year
2004
7 that year
First recorded
1986
Last recorded
2011
All-time count
29
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michon

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

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Sibling names for Michon

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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