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Michelle
Pronounced /mɪˈʃɛl/
Rank in 2024
#409
Born in 2024
772
Peak year
1969 · #2
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for boys:0 in 2024
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 772 girls were named Michelle, about 1 in every 2,090.
- It peaked in 1969 with 34,319 babies, ranked #2.
- It first shows up in the records in 1915.
- 815,849 girls have been named Michelle since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Michelle per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- <0.1Greatest1901–27
- <0.1Silent1928–45
- 3.3Boomers1946–64
- 16.0Gen X1965–80
- 7.3Millennials1981–96
- 2.3Gen Z1997–12
- 0.7Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 89 babies, 0.00 per 1,000. Silent: 2,050 babies, 0.10 per 1,000. Boomers: 117,294 babies, 3.27 per 1,000. Gen X: 409,998 babies, 16.05 per 1,000. Millennials: 204,881 babies, 7.26 per 1,000. Gen Z: 66,721 babies, 2.30 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 14,816 babies, 0.73 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
Borrowed from French Michelle, feminine form of French Michel (“Michael”), Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikhaél, “who is like God?”). Doublet of Michaela.
- A female given name from Hebrew, popular from the 1960s to the 1990s.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /mɪˈʃɛl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Michelle, CC BY-SA 4.0.