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Michaele

Girls' name

Alternative spelling of Michaële

Michaele has been given to 1,837 babies in the U.S. since 1933. 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 1947, with 104 recorded.

Babies named Michaele, 2010

1 in 528,000

Michaele over time, 1880–2025

GirlsBoys
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michaele: meaning, origin, and history

Alternative spelling of Michaële

Latin

What Michaele means

Michaele is a alternative spelling of Michaële.

Origin, language, and formation

Michaele is used in French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michaële.

Pronunciation and spelling

In French, Michaele is pronounced /mi.ka.ɛl/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,816 girls were recorded with the name Michaele between 1933 and 2010. Its highest annual count was 104 in 1947; its best national rank was #858 in 1947.

In the United States, 21 boys were recorded with the name Michaele between 1963 and 2001. Its highest annual count was 6 in 1981; its best national rank was #4,432 in 1963.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Michaele?

Michaele had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2010, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2010
1 in 528,000
7 of 3,695,928 births
Among girls only
1 in 254,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2010
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
365,976 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michaele sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2010 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 365,976 children born in 2010 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michaele. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michaeles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michaele was born before 1963 — so the typical Michaele is around 62 today.

Median birth year
1963
About 62 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
29.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
9.5%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,312
People you could plausibly meet
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1960s — 29.3% of all recorded uses (532).

Is Michaele 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 1947 (104)
Years since peak
78
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#858
1947

Spellings of Michaele

Michaele is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 70.3% against Michaele's 0.16%.

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 Michaele is used

Across 1910–2025, Michaele was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 196,716 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Colorado1 in —
  4. 4Connecticut1 in —
  5. 5Illinois1 in —
  6. 6Michigan1 in —
  7. 7New Jersey1 in —
  8. 8Ohio1 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. Michaele has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michaele around the world

Where Michaele 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.

  • France
    1958–1985
    #3,352
    in 1985
  • South Australia
    1962–1971
    #724
    in 1971

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Michaele by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#858
1947
Peak year
1947
104 that year
First recorded
1933
Last recorded
2010
All-time count
1,816
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#4,432
1963
Peak year
1981
6 that year
First recorded
1963
Last recorded
2001
All-time count
21
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michaele

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Michaele

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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