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Michaella

#4,240 in 2025Girls' name

Who is like God?, through Michaela

Michaella has been given to 2,309 babies in the U.S. since 1941. In 2025 it ranked #4,240 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 141 recorded.

Babies named Michaella, 2025

1 in 97,500

Michaella over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michaella: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michaela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michaella means

Michaella belongs to the name family reached through Michaella → Michaela → Michael. Its meaning is “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Michaella is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michaela and Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,309 girls were recorded with the name Michaella between 1941 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 141 in 1997; its best national rank was #1,239 in 1995.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #6,005 in 2020 to #4,240 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #4,939 in 2015 to #4,240 in 2025.

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 Michaella?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 97,500
34 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 47,300
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#4,240
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
67,586 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michaella 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 2025 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 67,586 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michaella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michaellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michaella was born before 1998 — so the typical Michaella is around 27 today.

Median birth year
1998
About 27 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
39.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,299
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (924).

Is Michaella 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
+859
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+1,765
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+699
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.21×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
24.1%
Peak was 1997 (141)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
18.2% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,239
1995

Spellings of Michaella

Michaella is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 87.9% against Michaella's 0.25%.

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 Michaella is used

Across 1910–2025, Michaella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 50,000 girls, against 1 in 144,936 across all states with data. It was least common in Utah (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in 50,000
  2. 2California1 in 100,000
  3. 3Massachusetts1 in 100,000
  4. 4Missouri1 in 100,000
  5. 5New York1 in 100,000
  6. 6Ohio1 in 100,000
  7. 7Texas1 in 100,000
  8. 8Washington1 in 100,000

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. Michaella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michaella around the world

Where Michaella 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.

  • England & Wales
    1996–2025
    #4,867
    in 2025
  • Scotland
    1987–2006
    #606
    in 2006
  • Ireland
    1989–2014
    #876
    in 2014
  • France
    1920–2025
    #5,137
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2024
    #2,710
    in 2024
  • South Australia
    1978–2007
    #803
    in 2007

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, National Records of Scotland, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NRS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Notable people named Michaella

People whose public names include Michaella, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Michaella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#4,240
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 1,765
Best rank ever
#1,239
1995
Peak year
1997
141 that year
First recorded
1941
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,309
Count in 2025
34

Names similar to Michaella

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

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Names with a curve like Michaella

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Michaella, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

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Sibling names for Michaella

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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