Meaning not yet researched.
Michele: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 28 in 2025. Its best rank was #29 in 1968.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #29 in 1968; #4,837 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Michele in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#4,837 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1968, at #29.
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Michele: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 28 girls in 2025. Peak: #29 in 1968 · most girls in one year: 11,219 (1968).
In 2025, 28 US girls were named Michele, making it the 4,837th most common girls’ name of the year, down 658 places from #4,179 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 35 girls named Michele in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #29, reached in 1968. That year also had the most girls given the name: 11,219. For comparison, it was #2,877 in 2015 and #128 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Michele in 116 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1905 with 5 babies. In all, 226,063 US babies have been given the name, 99% of them girls and 1.2% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1960s, with 87,530 babies named Michele.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 332 US girls were named Michele; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 60. In 2025 that was about 1 in 57,402 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Michelle (819,760 babies since 1880), Miguel (191,562 babies since 1880) and Michaela (53,702 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mikhale are summarised on this page. The open nickname list we use links it to Chelle, Mickey, Shelley, Shellie and Shelly.
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 English and Italian. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mikhale (16).
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.
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 28 | #4,837 | — | — |
| 2024 | 35 | #4,179 | — | — |
| 2023 | 24 | #5,339 | 9 | #8,692 |
| 2022 | 33 | #4,348 | 7 | #10,499 |
| 2021 | 22 | #5,690 | 8 | #9,395 |
| 2020 | 35 | #4,057 | 8 | #9,267 |
| 2019 | 28 | #4,862 | 10 | #8,010 |
| 2018 | 31 | #4,529 | 8 | #9,368 |
| 2017 | 36 | #4,125 | 9 | #8,607 |
| 2016 | 60 | #2,853 | 13 | #6,593 |
| 2015 | 61 | #2,877 | — | — |
| 2014 | 48 | #3,356 | 5 | #13,386 |
| 2013 | 63 | #2,756 | 9 | #8,546 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,825 | 10 | #7,942 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,980 | 10 | #7,894 |
| 2010 | 72 | #2,556 | 10 | #7,953 |
| 2009 | 88 | #2,237 | 10 | #8,101 |
| 2008 | 98 | #2,090 | 13 | #6,648 |
| 2007 | 107 | #1,934 | 15 | #5,826 |
| 2006 | 149 | #1,485 | 11 | #7,263 |
| 2005 | 147 | #1,449 | 11 | #6,951 |
| 2004 | 196 | #1,159 | 18 | #4,719 |
| 2003 | 213 | #1,058 | 18 | #4,555 |
| 2002 | 207 | #1,040 | 20 | #4,142 |
| 2001 | 265 | #864 | 26 | #3,378 |
| 2000 | 247 | #891 | 22 | #3,718 |
| 1999 | 256 | #845 | 17 | #4,271 |
| 1998 | 299 | #732 | 16 | #4,335 |
| 1997 | 324 | #672 | 15 | #4,395 |
| 1996 | 397 | #579 | 15 | #4,322 |
| 1995 | 471 | #516 | 17 | #3,796 |
| 1994 | 563 | #453 | 21 | #3,296 |
| 1993 | 711 | #359 | 27 | #2,671 |
| 1992 | 822 | #329 | 23 | #2,970 |
| 1991 | 1,007 | #276 | 23 | #2,886 |
| 1990 | 1,164 | #244 | 36 | #2,066 |
| 1989 | 1,267 | #214 | 43 | #1,784 |
| 1988 | 1,272 | #206 | 32 | #2,021 |
| 1987 | 1,310 | #205 | 38 | #1,747 |
| 1986 | 1,424 | #188 | 38 | #1,681 |
| 1985 | 1,477 | #182 | 33 | #1,824 |
| 1984 | 1,692 | #161 | 33 | #1,752 |
| 1983 | 1,836 | #155 | 36 | #1,644 |
| 1982 | 2,227 | #135 | 37 | #1,637 |
| 1981 | 2,271 | #127 | 47 | #1,386 |
| 1980 | 2,486 | #126 | 37 | #1,610 |
| 1979 | 2,881 | #105 | 58 | #1,203 |
| 1978 | 3,484 | #86 | 42 | #1,448 |
| 1977 | 3,711 | #77 | 48 | #1,308 |
| 1976 | 4,443 | #63 | 51 | #1,220 |
| 1975 | 5,033 | #56 | 64 | #1,037 |
| 1974 | 5,587 | #50 | 70 | #985 |
| 1973 | 5,996 | #44 | 51 | #1,159 |
| 1972 | 7,380 | #36 | 69 | #982 |
| 1971 | 7,955 | #39 | 57 | #1,088 |
| 1970 | 10,090 | #31 | 74 | #930 |
| 1969 | 10,556 | #30 | 85 | #835 |
| 1968 | 11,219 | #29 | 62 | #926 |
| 1967 | 10,416 | #36 | 69 | #866 |
| 1966 | 10,689 | #36 | 65 | #900 |
| 1965 | 8,661 | #48 | 41 | #1,199 |
| 1964 | 7,908 | #58 | 44 | #1,170 |
| 1963 | 7,512 | #59 | 52 | #1,062 |
| 1962 | 7,428 | #59 | 49 | #1,102 |
| 1961 | 6,995 | #63 | 32 | #1,425 |
| 1960 | 5,609 | #89 | 38 | #1,287 |
| 1959 | 5,445 | #89 | 33 | #1,379 |
| 1958 | 5,212 | #92 | 33 | #1,360 |
| 1957 | 4,746 | #99 | 28 | #1,504 |
| 1956 | 4,617 | #100 | 29 | #1,472 |
| 1955 | 4,768 | #93 | 23 | #1,631 |
| 1954 | 4,763 | #89 | 24 | #1,585 |
| 1953 | 3,723 | #102 | 24 | #1,572 |
| 1952 | 3,406 | #110 | 25 | #1,537 |
| 1951 | 2,793 | #125 | 20 | #1,714 |
| 1950 | 2,500 | #128 | 20 | #1,688 |
| 1949 | 2,381 | #135 | 20 | #1,692 |
| 1948 | 1,799 | #159 | 10 | #2,559 |
| 1947 | 1,984 | #148 | 16 | #1,966 |
| 1946 | 1,375 | #187 | 16 | #1,866 |
| 1945 | 948 | #206 | 13 | #1,988 |
| 1944 | 1,159 | #187 | 10 | #2,415 |
| 1943 | 958 | #210 | 15 | #1,965 |
| 1942 | 728 | #255 | 11 | #2,346 |
| 1941 | 172 | #535 | 8 | #2,808 |
| 1940 | 102 | #692 | 9 | #2,614 |
| 1939 | 57 | #934 | — | — |
| 1938 | 53 | #983 | 12 | #2,147 |
| 1937 | 46 | #1,058 | — | — |
| 1936 | 37 | #1,179 | 9 | #2,565 |
| 1935 | 33 | #1,255 | — | — |
| 1934 | 22 | #1,637 | 5 | #4,033 |
| 1933 | 28 | #1,391 | 12 | #2,180 |
| 1932 | 27 | #1,477 | 11 | #2,415 |
| 1931 | 8 | #3,409 | 7 | #3,297 |
| 1930 | 6 | #4,396 | 13 | #2,258 |
| 1929 | 11 | #2,863 | 13 | #2,281 |
| 1928 | 19 | #1,999 | 15 | #2,123 |
| 1927 | 15 | #2,404 | 14 | #2,257 |
| 1926 | 19 | #2,052 | 17 | #1,961 |
| 1925 | 11 | #3,068 | 21 | #1,724 |
| 1924 | 12 | #2,920 | 19 | #1,876 |
| 1923 | 12 | #2,862 | 19 | #1,848 |
| 1922 | 8 | #3,900 | 15 | #2,205 |
| 1921 | 8 | #3,911 | 20 | #1,805 |
| 1920 | 7 | #4,275 | 22 | #1,676 |
| 1919 | 7 | #4,114 | 21 | #1,675 |
| 1918 | 9 | #3,429 | 17 | #1,966 |
| 1917 | 8 | #3,599 | 26 | #1,384 |
| 1916 | 10 | #2,963 | 24 | #1,452 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,753 | 13 | #2,138 |
| 1914 | — | — | 14 | #1,744 |
| 1913 | — | — | 13 | #1,558 |
| 1912 | — | — | 5 | #2,789 |
| 1911 | — | — | 10 | #1,174 |
| 1905 | — | — | 5 | #1,362 |
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).