Girls' name · since 1942
Michelyn
80 babies named Michelyn in U.S. Social Security records since 1942, with the highest year being 1969. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 80
- total births
- 1942–1977
- years on record
- 1970s
- peak decade
- 53%
- born in that decade
Michelyn sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 80 recorded since 1942.
Michelyn has 80 recorded births among girls since 1942, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1970s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1942 to 1977.
- 80 total births
- 1942–1977 years on record
- 1970s peak decade
- 53% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Michelyn's 80 recorded births place it above 59% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Michelyn's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Michelyn's SSA record in two at 1970 and the more recent half accounts for 53% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 47%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1946, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1969 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Michelyn popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1942–1977
- Peak year (1969)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 36 years of records
Michelyn by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1970s was Michelyn's strongest decade.
42 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Michelyn births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1940s 16
1940s
16 births
- 1950s 6
1950s
6 births
- 1960s 16
1960s
16 births
- 1970s
1970s
42 births
What this shows Peak: 1970s at 42 births (53% of all-time use).
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1942–1977 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Michelyn: Baby Name Since 1942 - 80 Births, Peak 1969." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/michelyn. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Michelyn draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.