Meaning not yet researched.
Michell: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 7 in 2025. Its best rank was #577 in 1967.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #577 in 1967; #12,744 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Michell in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#12,744 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1967, at #577.
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Michell: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 7 girls in 2025. Peak: #577 in 1967 · most girls in one year: 290 (1971).
In 2025, 7 US girls were named Michell, making it the 12,744th most common girls’ name of the year, down 2,728 places from #10,016 in 2024. That is 3 fewer than the 10 girls named Michell in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #577, reached in 1967. The most girls given the name in a single year was 290, in 1971. For comparison, it was #7,495 in 2015 and #4,208 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Michell in 83 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1926 with 5 babies. In all, 7,583 US babies have been given the name, 92% of them girls and 7.8% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1970s, with 2,290 babies named Michell.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 82 US girls were named Michell; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 12. In 2025 that was about 1 in 229,610 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), Michele (226,063 babies since 1880) and Micheal (156,555 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.
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 Michell 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 | 7 | #12,744 | — | — |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,016 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,849 | — | — |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,137 | — | — |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,062 | — | — |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,836 | — | — |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,216 | — | — |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,352 | — | — |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,165 | — | — |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,250 | — | — |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,495 | — | — |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,121 | — | — |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,394 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,360 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,045 | — | — |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,271 | 9 | #8,568 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,957 | — | — |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,571 | 7 | #10,653 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,209 | — | — |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,425 | — | — |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,149 | — | — |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,058 | — | — |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,661 | 6 | #10,233 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,086 | 6 | #10,107 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,841 | 6 | #9,899 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,391 | 8 | #7,631 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,250 | 12 | #5,169 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,613 | 7 | #7,701 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,969 | 7 | #7,530 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,901 | 6 | #8,438 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,689 | 5 | #9,675 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,148 | 14 | #4,259 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,890 | 14 | #4,158 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,539 | 14 | #4,117 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,581 | 12 | #4,434 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,546 | 14 | #3,643 |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,414 | 8 | #5,285 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,532 | 14 | #3,376 |
| 1985 | 94 | #1,380 | 9 | #4,563 |
| 1984 | 110 | #1,196 | 10 | #4,115 |
| 1983 | 116 | #1,147 | 5 | #6,955 |
| 1982 | 137 | #1,056 | 16 | #2,928 |
| 1981 | 148 | #990 | 5 | #6,935 |
| 1980 | 126 | #1,102 | 6 | #5,989 |
| 1979 | 137 | #1,028 | 15 | #2,979 |
| 1978 | 142 | #979 | 9 | #4,055 |
| 1977 | 159 | #897 | 9 | #4,053 |
| 1976 | 182 | #785 | 9 | #3,907 |
| 1975 | 233 | #654 | 11 | #3,369 |
| 1974 | 251 | #622 | 17 | #2,426 |
| 1973 | 255 | #608 | 9 | #3,612 |
| 1972 | 252 | #617 | 9 | #3,524 |
| 1971 | 290 | #596 | 6 | #4,741 |
| 1970 | 275 | #620 | 20 | #2,036 |
| 1969 | 272 | #603 | 14 | #2,377 |
| 1968 | 247 | #612 | 12 | #2,538 |
| 1967 | 273 | #577 | 12 | #2,432 |
| 1966 | 185 | #727 | 13 | #2,300 |
| 1965 | 139 | #849 | 7 | #3,452 |
| 1964 | 131 | #916 | 13 | #2,379 |
| 1963 | 123 | #957 | 14 | #2,273 |
| 1962 | 110 | #1,029 | 18 | #1,939 |
| 1961 | 86 | #1,198 | 9 | #3,035 |
| 1960 | 89 | #1,158 | 14 | #2,279 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,240 | 14 | #2,265 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,647 | 13 | #2,333 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,567 | 8 | #3,176 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,036 | 5 | #4,296 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,008 | 13 | #2,280 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,820 | 9 | #2,886 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,050 | 8 | #3,070 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,245 | 8 | #3,023 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,774 | — | — |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,208 | 10 | #2,532 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,547 | 7 | #3,205 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,106 | 8 | #2,940 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,855 | 9 | #2,804 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,371 | — | — |
| 1945 | — | — | 6 | #3,210 |
| 1927 | — | — | 5 | #4,597 |
| 1926 | — | — | 5 | #4,608 |
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).