Michon — unisex name
555 babies named Michon in U.S. Social Security records since 1941, with the highest year being 1964. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
32% of everyone ever named Michon was born in this single decade.
31 babies were named Michon in 1964 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Michon
The Social Security Administration has registered 555 babies named Michon between 1941 and 1999, spanning 59 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Michon currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 1999. The name reached its historical peak in 1964, when 31 babies received it in a single year. Michon is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 29 additional births since 1986.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Michon performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 179 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Michon shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 18 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Nevada and Washington. In total, SSA state-level files list Michon in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Michon in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 555 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Michon at a glance
Last recorded 1999Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Michon popularity over time — girls
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1999–1941
- Peak year (1964)
- 31
- Annual births at peak — across 59 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 1999.
555 total births across 59 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1964 with 31 births in a single year.
Michon popularity over time — boys
29 total births recorded since 1986 (Michon as boys' name)
Unisex use remains the minority pattern
The boys' variant of Michon accounts for 5% of total recorded use across both genders.
Michon by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1960s
- 179 births that decade — 32% of Michon's all-time total
Michon decade highlights
- Peak decade 179 births
- Runner-up 162 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1960s was Michon's strongest decade
179 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 32% of all-time use.
Michon by state
Where Michon concentrates geographically — total births since 1941
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 18 | 3.2% |
| #2 | Nevada | | 5 | 0.9% |
| #3 | Washington | | 5 | 0.9% |
18 of 555 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 3.2% of nationwide
- Nevada 0.9% of nationwide
- Washington 0.9% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 3.2% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1941–1999 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.