Machelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Machelle has been given to 3,178 babies in the U.S. since 1946. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1968, with 177 recorded.
Babies named Machelle, 2015
1 in 740,000
Machelle over time, 1880–2025
Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Machelle?
Machelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2015
- 1 in 740,000
- 5 of 3,701,574 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 357,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2015
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 513,148 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Machelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2015 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 513,148 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Machelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Machelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Machelle was born before 1968 — so the typical Machelle is around 57 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 45.8% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.3%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 3,152
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 45.8% of all recorded uses (1,455).
Is Machelle rising or falling?
Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.
- Rank vs 1 year ago
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
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- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
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- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1968 (177)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 32.4% average annual change
Spellings of Machelle
Machelle is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 68.3% against Machelle's 0.27%.
Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.
Where Machelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Machelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 104,360 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Machelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Machelle around the world
Where Machelle ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.
- South Australia1957–1981#616in 1981
Popularity data from Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Machelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Machelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Machelle
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Machelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Machelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.