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Michaelle

Girls' name

Alternative spelling of Michaëlle

Michaelle has been given to 1,388 babies in the U.S. since 1942. 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 1967, with 62 recorded.

Babies named Michaelle, 2021

1 in 565,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michaelle: meaning, origin, and history

Alternative spelling of Michaëlle

Latin

What Michaelle means

Michaelle is a alternative spelling of Michaëlle.

Origin, language, and formation

Michaelle is used in French. Its origins include Latin.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michaëlle.

Pronunciation and spelling

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

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,388 girls were recorded with the name Michaelle between 1942 and 2021. Its highest annual count was 62 in 1967; its best national rank was #1,411 in 1967.

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 Michaelle?

Michaelle 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 565,000
6 of 3,389,958 births
Among girls only
1 in 273,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2021
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
391,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michaelle 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 2021 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 391,624 children born in 2021 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michaelle. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michaelles were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michaelle was born before 1971 — so the typical Michaelle is around 54 today.

Median birth year
1971
About 54 years old
Biggest decade
1960s
28.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
8.0%
Mostly a past generation
Recorded since 1950
1,318
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1960s — 28.5% of all recorded uses (396).

Is Michaelle 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 1967 (62)
Years since peak
58
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,411
1967

Spellings of Michaelle

Michaelle is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 70.6% against Michaelle's 0.12%.

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 Michaelle is used

Across 1910–2025, Michaelle was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 429,187 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

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Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Illinois1 in —
  3. 3Indiana1 in —
  4. 4Michigan1 in —
  5. 5New York1 in —
  6. 6Ohio1 in —
  7. 7Texas1 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. Michaelle has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michaelle around the world

Where Michaelle 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
    1948–1988
    #1,860
    in 1988
  • Canada
    1991–2018
    #2,807
    in 2018
  • South Australia
    1968–2008
    #796
    in 2008

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

Michaelle 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
—
Best rank ever
#1,411
1967
Peak year
1967
62 that year
First recorded
1942
Last recorded
2021
All-time count
1,388
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michaelle

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

MichalleMichelinaMichaellaMickelleMichilleMichealleMichealaMichielleMichellaMickaylaRosabelleMaribelleMichelineMirabelleMarybelleMicaiahMichikoAmbrielleMicheleneMichalinaMichaelynMichelaMichaylaMickenzie

Sibling names for Michaelle

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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