Meaning not yet researched.
Michaella: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 34 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,242 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,242 in 1995; #4,241 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Michaella in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,241 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #1,242.
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Michaella: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 34 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,242 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 141 (1997).
In 2025, 34 US girls were named Michaella, making it the 4,241st most common girls’ name of the year, up 861 places from #5,102 in 2024. That is 8 more than the 26 girls named Michaella in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,242, reached in 1995. The most girls given the name in a single year was 141, in 1997. For comparison, it was #4,941 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Michaella in 67 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1941 with 5 babies. In all, 2,309 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 924 babies named Michaella.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 268 US girls were named Michaella; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 39. In 2025 that was about 1 in 47,273 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michaela (53,702 babies since 1880), Michela (2,217 babies since 1880), Michala (1,545 babies since 1880) and Micheala (1,489 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mechella are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mechella (5).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Michaella in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 34 | #4,241 | — | — |
| 2024 | 26 | #5,102 | — | — |
| 2023 | 22 | #5,675 | — | — |
| 2022 | 24 | #5,424 | — | — |
| 2021 | 26 | #5,049 | — | — |
| 2020 | 20 | #6,009 | — | — |
| 2019 | 23 | #5,563 | — | — |
| 2018 | 25 | #5,279 | — | — |
| 2017 | 29 | #4,776 | — | — |
| 2016 | 39 | #3,904 | — | — |
| 2015 | 28 | #4,941 | — | — |
| 2014 | 35 | #4,236 | — | — |
| 2013 | 34 | #4,308 | — | — |
| 2012 | 31 | #4,676 | — | — |
| 2011 | 34 | #4,328 | — | — |
| 2010 | 44 | #3,608 | — | — |
| 2009 | 30 | #4,897 | — | — |
| 2008 | 45 | #3,631 | — | — |
| 2007 | 45 | #3,643 | — | — |
| 2006 | 36 | #4,130 | — | — |
| 2005 | 36 | #4,010 | — | — |
| 2004 | 63 | #2,637 | — | — |
| 2003 | 58 | #2,730 | — | — |
| 2002 | 60 | #2,601 | — | — |
| 2001 | 68 | #2,348 | — | — |
| 2000 | 89 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1999 | 81 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,453 | — | — |
| 1997 | 141 | #1,262 | — | — |
| 1996 | 111 | #1,482 | — | — |
| 1995 | 138 | #1,242 | — | — |
| 1994 | 123 | #1,362 | — | — |
| 1993 | 84 | #1,759 | — | — |
| 1992 | 50 | #2,539 | — | — |
| 1991 | 42 | #2,824 | — | — |
| 1990 | 36 | #3,127 | — | — |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,507 | — | — |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,992 | — | — |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,070 | — | — |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,291 | — | — |
| 1985 | 21 | #3,940 | — | — |
| 1984 | 25 | #3,388 | — | — |
| 1983 | 14 | #5,050 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,860 | — | — |
| 1981 | 18 | #4,274 | — | — |
| 1980 | 13 | #5,437 | — | — |
| 1979 | 13 | #5,302 | — | — |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,737 | — | — |
| 1977 | 6 | #9,216 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,837 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,658 | — | — |
| 1974 | 8 | #6,638 | — | — |
| 1973 | 11 | #5,087 | — | — |
| 1972 | 13 | #4,451 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,093 | — | — |
| 1969 | 10 | #4,928 | — | — |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,035 | — | — |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,540 | — | — |
| 1966 | 12 | #3,879 | — | — |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,828 | — | — |
| 1960 | 5 | #7,007 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,642 | — | — |
| 1954 | 5 | #6,336 | — | — |
| 1953 | 10 | #3,886 | — | — |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,964 | — | — |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,774 | — | — |
| 1941 | 5 | #4,858 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).