Michelin
Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA, commonly referred to as Michelin, is a French multinational tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France.
Meaning & Origin of Michelin
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Compagnie Générale des Établissements Michelin SCA, commonly referred to as Michelin, is a French multinational tyre manufacturer based in Clermont-Ferrand in the Auvergne-Rhône-Alpes région of France.
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The Story of Michelin
Michelin first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1975, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1978: 8 births, good for #6,946 nationwide. About 65% of every Michelin on record arrived during the 1970s, its defining decade. Michelin last appeared in the published SSA data in 1990, with 7 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 20 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1970s to the 2020s.
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About the name Michelin
Michelin is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1975 and has accumulated 20 births in the dataset. Michelin's peak popularity came in 1978 when it ranked #6,946. Use the chart and map above to compare Michelin's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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