Meaning not yet researched.
Michel: US boys given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 22 in 2025. Its best rank was #458 in 1957.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #458 in 1957; #4,642 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Michel in 2025 were boys.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,642 for US boys in 2025. Its best year was 1957, at #458.
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Michel: US boys and girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 22 boys in 2025. Peak: #458 in 1957 · most boys in one year: 284 (1957).
In 2025, 22 US boys were named Michel, making it the 4,642nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 980 places from #3,662 in 2024. That is 9 fewer than the 31 boys named Michel in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #458, reached in 1957. That year also had the most boys given the name: 284. For comparison, it was #2,897 in 2015 and #484 in 1950.
In 2025, 9 US girls were named Michel, making it the 10,637th most common girls’ name of the year, down 3,158 places from #7,479 in 2024. That is 6 fewer than the 15 girls named Michel in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,127, reached in 1966. The most girls given the name in a single year was 89, in 1970. For comparison, it was #8,781 in 2015 and #1,896 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Michel in 127 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1880 with 6 babies. In all, 14,094 US babies have been given the name, 25% of them girls and 75% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 2,712 babies named Michel.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 257 US boys were named Michel; the busiest of those years was 2024, with 31. In 2025 that was about 1 in 77,640 of the boys in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Michele (226,063 babies since 1880), Miguel (191,562 babies since 1880) and Mitchel (13,309 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mykhel 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: Mykhel (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 Michel 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 | 9 | #10,637 | 22 | #4,642 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,479 | 31 | #3,662 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,409 | 27 | #4,082 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,136 | 23 | #4,532 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,061 | 25 | #4,190 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,038 | 26 | #3,991 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,215 | 26 | #4,071 |
| 2018 | 6 | #15,048 | 27 | #3,956 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,319 | 30 | #3,641 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,602 | 20 | #4,884 |
| 2015 | 13 | #8,781 | 41 | #2,897 |
| 2014 | 11 | #9,952 | 26 | #3,979 |
| 2013 | — | — | 36 | #3,103 |
| 2012 | 18 | #7,066 | 34 | #3,282 |
| 2011 | 19 | #6,770 | 48 | #2,576 |
| 2010 | 29 | #4,930 | 42 | #2,856 |
| 2009 | 55 | #3,116 | 55 | #2,373 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,688 | 52 | #2,453 |
| 2007 | 56 | #3,115 | 55 | #2,359 |
| 2006 | 75 | #2,477 | 63 | #2,093 |
| 2005 | 64 | #2,662 | 57 | #2,157 |
| 2004 | 62 | #2,668 | 68 | #1,824 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,482 | 63 | #1,881 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,628 | 49 | #2,184 |
| 2001 | 52 | #2,836 | 60 | #1,859 |
| 2000 | 53 | #2,767 | 62 | #1,776 |
| 1999 | 54 | #2,632 | 69 | #1,588 |
| 1998 | 31 | #3,798 | 64 | #1,636 |
| 1997 | 38 | #3,134 | 84 | #1,342 |
| 1996 | 51 | #2,498 | 69 | #1,472 |
| 1995 | 53 | #2,445 | 65 | #1,486 |
| 1994 | 48 | #2,612 | 85 | #1,271 |
| 1993 | 44 | #2,756 | 77 | #1,303 |
| 1992 | 46 | #2,672 | 85 | #1,227 |
| 1991 | 57 | #2,284 | 92 | #1,153 |
| 1990 | 39 | #2,935 | 132 | #894 |
| 1989 | 46 | #2,508 | 128 | #896 |
| 1988 | 32 | #3,133 | 111 | #909 |
| 1987 | 31 | #3,071 | 120 | #857 |
| 1986 | 40 | #2,495 | 123 | #820 |
| 1985 | 38 | #2,577 | 103 | #896 |
| 1984 | 39 | #2,451 | 124 | #777 |
| 1983 | 49 | #2,063 | 121 | #798 |
| 1982 | 77 | #1,545 | 132 | #765 |
| 1981 | 61 | #1,821 | 103 | #879 |
| 1980 | 56 | #1,926 | 95 | #917 |
| 1979 | 51 | #2,010 | 130 | #763 |
| 1978 | 61 | #1,718 | 120 | #771 |
| 1977 | 53 | #1,893 | 142 | #714 |
| 1976 | 74 | #1,431 | 118 | #767 |
| 1975 | 61 | #1,616 | 142 | #698 |
| 1974 | 54 | #1,699 | 129 | #722 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,537 | 139 | #676 |
| 1972 | 64 | #1,499 | 149 | #658 |
| 1971 | 73 | #1,436 | 165 | #642 |
| 1970 | 89 | #1,254 | 167 | #628 |
| 1969 | 87 | #1,200 | 161 | #617 |
| 1968 | 80 | #1,229 | 169 | #584 |
| 1967 | 71 | #1,294 | 169 | #581 |
| 1966 | 89 | #1,127 | 185 | #562 |
| 1965 | 62 | #1,402 | 200 | #541 |
| 1964 | 58 | #1,490 | 196 | #565 |
| 1963 | 68 | #1,346 | 231 | #524 |
| 1962 | 55 | #1,522 | 200 | #558 |
| 1961 | 54 | #1,545 | 254 | #499 |
| 1960 | 56 | #1,477 | 267 | #487 |
| 1959 | 45 | #1,635 | 228 | #521 |
| 1958 | 41 | #1,694 | 226 | #516 |
| 1957 | 41 | #1,698 | 284 | #458 |
| 1956 | 42 | #1,653 | 223 | #507 |
| 1955 | 36 | #1,764 | 239 | #475 |
| 1954 | 31 | #1,902 | 241 | #469 |
| 1953 | 34 | #1,727 | 243 | #459 |
| 1952 | 31 | #1,811 | 223 | #467 |
| 1951 | 27 | #1,912 | 209 | #470 |
| 1950 | 26 | #1,896 | 193 | #484 |
| 1949 | 30 | #1,760 | 167 | #518 |
| 1948 | 24 | #1,990 | 134 | #578 |
| 1947 | 33 | #1,684 | 144 | #565 |
| 1946 | 20 | #2,134 | 128 | #569 |
| 1945 | 22 | #1,816 | 76 | #702 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,725 | 70 | #744 |
| 1943 | 19 | #2,055 | 77 | #739 |
| 1942 | 27 | #1,619 | 70 | #773 |
| 1941 | — | — | 46 | #948 |
| 1940 | — | — | 37 | #1,088 |
| 1939 | 5 | #4,727 | 34 | #1,116 |
| 1938 | — | — | 34 | #1,123 |
| 1937 | — | — | 23 | #1,432 |
| 1936 | — | — | 18 | #1,623 |
| 1935 | — | — | 25 | #1,386 |
| 1934 | — | — | 18 | #1,714 |
| 1933 | — | — | 27 | #1,298 |
| 1932 | — | — | 19 | #1,695 |
| 1931 | — | — | 24 | #1,445 |
| 1930 | — | — | 27 | #1,414 |
| 1929 | — | — | 28 | #1,366 |
| 1928 | — | — | 26 | #1,474 |
| 1927 | — | — | 31 | #1,343 |
| 1926 | — | — | 22 | #1,642 |
| 1925 | — | — | 31 | #1,322 |
| 1924 | — | — | 24 | #1,612 |
| 1923 | — | — | 29 | #1,374 |
| 1922 | — | — | 31 | #1,324 |
| 1921 | — | — | 31 | #1,350 |
| 1920 | — | — | 28 | #1,410 |
| 1919 | — | — | 29 | #1,339 |
| 1918 | — | — | 34 | #1,209 |
| 1917 | — | — | 18 | #1,789 |
| 1916 | — | — | 27 | #1,321 |
| 1915 | — | — | 24 | #1,397 |
| 1914 | — | — | 21 | #1,331 |
| 1913 | — | — | 17 | #1,299 |
| 1912 | — | — | 11 | #1,591 |
| 1910 | — | — | 6 | #1,529 |
| 1908 | — | — | 6 | #1,316 |
| 1907 | — | — | 8 | #1,068 |
| 1906 | — | — | 9 | #897 |
| 1903 | — | — | 7 | #984 |
| 1902 | — | — | 5 | #1,255 |
| 1901 | — | — | 5 | #1,159 |
| 1899 | — | — | 10 | #691 |
| 1892 | — | — | 7 | #922 |
| 1889 | — | — | 5 | #1,060 |
| 1888 | — | — | 8 | #796 |
| 1883 | — | — | 5 | #1,000 |
| 1880 | — | — | 6 | #878 |
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).