Michaeline
Michaeline was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 936 Americans have been recorded with it between 1913 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michaeline by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michaeline?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,028, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
43 babies in 1947, the peak
Michaeline peaked in 1947, when 43 girls were given it, #1,431 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #15,028 | 2.9 |
| 1991 | 10 | #8,378 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,330 | 4.3 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,136 | 2.8 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,198 | 4.1 |
| 1984 | 9 | #7,190 | 5.3 |
| 1983 | 5 | #11,361 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 5 | #11,502 | 3.0 |
| 1979 | 7 | #8,641 | 4.4 |
| 1978 | 8 | #7,395 | 5.2 |
Every recorded year (68)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1975 | 11 | #5,386 | 7.5 |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,636 | 5.5 |
| 1973 | 15 | #4,094 | 10.3 |
| 1972 | 9 | #5,768 | 5.9 |
| 1971 | 12 | #4,725 | 7.2 |
| 1970 | 14 | #4,174 | 8.0 |
| 1969 | 7 | #6,380 | 4.1 |
| 1968 | 10 | #4,675 | 6.1 |
| 1967 | 15 | #3,433 | 9.1 |
| 1966 | 11 | #4,121 | 6.5 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,010 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 9 | #4,871 | 4.7 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,180 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,716 | 6.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,732 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 13 | #3,625 | 6.4 |
| 1959 | 13 | #3,563 | 6.4 |
| 1958 | 6 | #5,881 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 16 | #2,998 | 7.8 |
| 1956 | 11 | #3,838 | 5.5 |
| 1955 | 20 | #2,522 | 10.2 |
| 1954 | 23 | #2,277 | 11.8 |
| 1953 | 24 | #2,162 | 12.8 |
| 1952 | 23 | #2,179 | 12.4 |
| 1951 | 36 | #1,596 | 20.0 |
| 1950 | 36 | #1,565 | 21.0 |
| 1949 | 32 | #1,682 | 18.7 |
| 1948 | 30 | #1,727 | 17.7 |
| 1947 | 43 | #1,431 | 24.3 |
| 1946 | 23 | #1,954 | 14.6 |
| 1945 | 19 | #1,970 | 14.5 |
| 1944 | 25 | #1,688 | 18.8 |
| 1943 | 28 | #1,618 | 20.1 |
| 1942 | 22 | #1,847 | 16.3 |
| 1941 | 14 | #2,343 | 11.6 |
| 1940 | 18 | #1,942 | 15.7 |
| 1939 | 13 | #2,374 | 11.9 |
| 1938 | 17 | #1,999 | 15.4 |
| 1937 | 16 | #2,069 | 15.0 |
| 1936 | 8 | #3,297 | 7.7 |
| 1934 | 11 | #2,679 | 10.5 |
| 1933 | 10 | #2,815 | 9.9 |
| 1932 | 6 | #4,255 | 5.6 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,393 | 5.3 |
| 1929 | 5 | #5,064 | 4.5 |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,145 | 5.9 |
| 1926 | 5 | #5,377 | 4.2 |
| 1925 | 12 | #2,884 | 9.9 |
| 1923 | 9 | #3,553 | 7.5 |
| 1921 | 12 | #2,887 | 9.7 |
| 1920 | 6 | #4,777 | 5.0 |
| 1919 | 21 | #1,838 | 18.6 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,427 | 7.8 |
| 1917 | 9 | #3,274 | 8.3 |
| 1916 | 13 | #2,450 | 12.4 |
| 1915 | 8 | #3,332 | 8.1 |
| 1914 | 7 | #3,082 | 9.2 |
| 1913 | 6 | #3,072 | 9.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michaeline a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michaeline has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 68 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michaeline: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michaeline, and how old are they?
An estimated 567 Americans named Michaeline and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (61% of everyone recorded); the median is 71 years old and half are between 58 and 78. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 687 people named Michaeline (685 women and girls, 2 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 644 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 7,423 babies since 1880, Michaeline is the fourth most given (13% of them). In 2025 none of their 23 babies recorded by SSA was a Michaeline (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michelina | 2,191 | 17 | 1922 |
| Michaelene | 1,429 | under 5 | 1949 |
| Micheline | 1,266 | under 5 | 1951 |
| Michaeline | 936 | under 5 | 1947 |
| Michelene | 750 | under 5 | 1950 |
| Michalene | 483 | under 5 | 1947 |
| Michalina | 205 | 6 | 2020 |
| Michaelina | 163 | under 5 | 1921 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Michaeline
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Michaeline and names like it
- Compare Michaeline and MichelinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMichaeline peaked in 1947.
- Illinois’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michaeline since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Michaeline.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Michaeline alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.