Meaning not yet researched.
Michela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,645 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,645 in 1998; #11,588 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Michela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,588 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #1,645.
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Michela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,645 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 99 (1998).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Michela, making it the 11,588th most common girls’ name of the year, down 4,438 places from #7,150 in 2024. That is 8 fewer than the 16 girls named Michela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,645, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 99. For comparison, it was #5,607 in 2015 and #5,853 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Michela in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1911 with 5 babies. In all, 2,217 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 722 babies named Michela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 145 US girls were named Michela; the busiest of those years was 2020, with 19. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michelle (819,760 babies since 1880), Michele (226,063 babies since 1880), Makayla (108,183 babies since 1880) and Michaela (53,702 babies since 1880).
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.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
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 Michela 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 | 8 | #11,588 | — | — |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,150 | — | — |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,811 | — | — |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,902 | — | — |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,885 | — | — |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,246 | — | — |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,015 | — | — |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,610 | — | — |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,146 | — | — |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,124 | — | — |
| 2015 | 24 | #5,607 | — | — |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,576 | — | — |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,101 | — | — |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,452 | — | — |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,669 | — | — |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,085 | — | — |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,046 | — | — |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,913 | — | — |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,633 | — | — |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,774 | — | — |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,565 | — | — |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,674 | — | — |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,915 | — | — |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,402 | — | — |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,451 | — | — |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,560 | — | — |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,993 | — | — |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,645 | — | — |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,755 | — | — |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,710 | — | — |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,207 | — | — |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,724 | — | — |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,311 | — | — |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,369 | — | — |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,438 | — | — |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,221 | — | — |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,142 | — | — |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,962 | — | — |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,888 | — | — |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,819 | — | — |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,893 | — | — |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,040 | — | — |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,056 | — | — |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,862 | — | — |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,501 | — | — |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,447 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,630 | — | — |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,186 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,566 | — | — |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,977 | — | — |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,475 | — | — |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,391 | — | — |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,748 | — | — |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,230 | — | — |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,750 | — | — |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,674 | — | — |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,242 | — | — |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,929 | — | — |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,516 | — | — |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,385 | — | — |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,878 | — | — |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,033 | — | — |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,356 | — | — |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,766 | — | — |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,783 | — | — |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,038 | — | — |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,109 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,861 | — | — |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,367 | — | — |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,512 | — | — |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,549 | — | — |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,257 | — | — |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,789 | — | — |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,688 | — | — |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,853 | — | — |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,123 | — | — |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,884 | — | — |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,311 | — | — |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,051 | — | — |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,137 | — | — |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,034 | — | — |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,924 | — | — |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,733 | — | — |
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).