I would count that they named her Michael, but one of the actresses on The Waltons was named Michael Learned.
It caused enough confusion that she was credited as "Miss Michael Learned" for the first several years.
She doesn't know why she was named that, either: "All (my father) told me was that if I had been a boy, I would have been named Caleb, but I was a girl, so I was called Michael."
I would count that they named her Michael, but one of the actresses on The Waltons was named Michael Learned.
It caused enough confusion that she was credited as "Miss Michael Learned" for the first several years.
She doesn't know why she was named that, either: "All (my father) told me was that if I had been a boy, I would have been named Caleb, but I was a girl, so I was called Michael."