Michelene
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
Michelene is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Belize it is the 77th most common given name.
- GYGuyana1 in 125K(measured from records)
- ZASouth Africa≈1 in 230Kfew records
- AUAustralia≈1 in 320Kfew records
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 178 (measured from records)
- 1 in 125K (inferred from the name graph)
759 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Guyana
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Michelene counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 759 | 1 in 438K | 759 | Michelene | 178 |
| ZA South Africa | — | ≈280 est. | ≈1 in 226K | — | Michelene | 17 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈210 est. | ≈1 in 562K | — | Michelene | 14 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 403K | — | Michelene | 31 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈120 est. | ≈1 in 354K | — | Michelene | 27 |
| AU Australia | — | ≈85 est. | ≈1 in 320K | 1 | Michelene | 33 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈22 est. | ≈1 in 127K | — | Michelene | 2 |
| GY Guyana | — | 6 | 1 in 125K | 6 | — | 2 |
| BZ Belize | #77 | ≈2 est. | ≈1 in 180K | — | Michelene | 1 |
759 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; SA BDM — Popular baby names South Australia (1944–present); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michelene T. H. Chib. 1950USAmerican cognitive scientist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them
(machine-generated)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)16 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 759 | #15,210 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1950 | 33 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1949 | 31 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1951 | 27 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1967 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1952 | 26 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1964 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1943 | 23 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1968 | 22 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1954 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1948 | 21 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 1946 | 21 | — |
Reference works 2
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Michelene a male or female name?
- Michelene is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- In which country does Michelene have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 759 people named Michelene, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michelene.
- Where is Michelene most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michelene is densest in Guyana — about 1 in 125 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michelene?
- In the United States, the national register counted 759 people named Michelene in 2020, about 1 in 438 thousand residents.
- How common is Michelene compared with other names?
- In Belize, Michelene is the 77th most common given name of 1,397 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Michelene?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/micheleneThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Michelene” — the 77th most common given name in Belize. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.