Mechelle
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mechelle has been given to 4,386 babies in the U.S. since 1947. 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 287 recorded.
Babies named Mechelle, 2021
1 in 678,000
Mechelle 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mechelle?
Mechelle had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2021, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2021
- 1 in 678,000
- 5 of 3,389,958 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 328,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2021
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 469,949 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mechelle sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2021 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 469,949 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mechelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mechelles were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mechelle was born before 1971 — so the typical Mechelle is around 54 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1960s
- 36.9% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 5.4%
- Mostly a past generation
- Recorded since 1950
- 4,361
- People you could plausibly meet
1960s — 36.9% of all recorded uses (1,619).
Is Mechelle 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 (287)
- Years since peak
- 57
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.9% average annual change
Spellings of Mechelle
Mechelle is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 70.3% against Mechelle's 0.38%.
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 Mechelle is used
Across 1910–2025, Mechelle was most concentrated in Louisiana — about 1 in 20,000 girls, against 1 in 63,770 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (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. Mechelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Mechelle around the world
Where Mechelle 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.
- Scotland1975–1990#615in 1990
- South Australia1957–1978#626in 1978
Popularity data from National Records of Scotland and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Mechelle by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mechelle
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Mechelle
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mechelle, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Mechelle
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.