Michelene
Michelene was last recorded in 1998, when 5 babies were given it; 750 Americans have been recorded with it between 1939 and 1998 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michelene by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michelene?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #15,753, in 1998; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
33 babies in 1950, the peak
Michelene peaked in 1950, when 33 girls were given it, #1,643 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1998 | 5 | #15,753 | 2.8 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,339 | 3.9 |
| 1991 | 6 | #12,532 | 3.2 |
| 1990 | 5 | #14,419 | 2.6 |
| 1989 | 5 | #13,763 | 2.7 |
| 1986 | 5 | #12,126 | 2.9 |
| 1985 | 7 | #8,936 | 4.1 |
| 1982 | 9 | #7,265 | 5.3 |
| 1981 | 5 | #11,500 | 3.0 |
| 1980 | 6 | #9,888 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (51)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1979 | 6 | #9,741 | 3.7 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,426 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,172 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 13 | #4,802 | 8.9 |
| 1975 | 13 | #4,760 | 8.9 |
| 1974 | 15 | #4,162 | 10.2 |
| 1973 | 16 | #3,899 | 11.0 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,231 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 16 | #3,885 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 20 | #3,274 | 11.4 |
| 1969 | 18 | #3,279 | 10.7 |
| 1968 | 22 | #2,763 | 13.4 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,410 | 15.7 |
| 1966 | 17 | #3,117 | 10.0 |
| 1965 | 18 | #3,011 | 10.2 |
| 1964 | 23 | #2,643 | 12.1 |
| 1963 | 20 | #2,833 | 10.4 |
| 1962 | 17 | #3,120 | 8.6 |
| 1961 | 13 | #3,733 | 6.4 |
| 1960 | 15 | #3,310 | 7.4 |
| 1959 | 11 | #3,962 | 5.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,049 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,614 | 5.9 |
| 1956 | 10 | #4,083 | 5.0 |
| 1955 | 18 | #2,689 | 9.2 |
| 1954 | 21 | #2,419 | 10.8 |
| 1953 | 19 | #2,480 | 10.1 |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,005 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,912 | 15.0 |
| 1950 | 33 | #1,643 | 19.3 |
| 1949 | 31 | #1,725 | 18.1 |
| 1948 | 21 | #2,166 | 12.4 |
| 1947 | 17 | #2,509 | 9.6 |
| 1946 | 21 | #2,068 | 13.4 |
| 1945 | 10 | #3,061 | 7.7 |
| 1944 | 11 | #2,894 | 8.3 |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,820 | 16.5 |
| 1942 | 12 | #2,760 | 8.9 |
| 1941 | 7 | #3,847 | 5.8 |
| 1940 | 7 | #3,742 | 6.1 |
| 1939 | 6 | #4,110 | 5.5 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michelene a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michelene has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 51 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michelene: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michelene, and how old are they?
An estimated 603 Americans named Michelene and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 54 and 74. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 759 people named Michelene (759 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 648 born in the U.S. The Census count is 17% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
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 7,285 babies since 1880, Michelene is the fifth most given (10% of them).
| 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 |
| Michaline | 151 | under 5 | 1953 |
| Michelena | 79 | under 5 | 1920 |
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 Michelene
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 Michelene and names like it
- Compare Michelene and MichelinaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMichelene peaked in 1950.
- Pennsylvania’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michelene since 1910.
- The top names of 1950The year the most babies were named Michelene.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Michelene alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.