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Michela

#11,584 in 2025Girls' name

Feminine form of Michael

Michela has been given to 2,217 babies in the U.S. since 1911. In 2025 it ranked #11,584 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1998, with 99 recorded.

Babies named Michela, 2025

1 in 414,000

Michela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
025507510018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michela: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michela means

Michela is a feminine form of Michael.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Michela is used in Italian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.ˈkɛː.la/ for Michela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Michela is a feminine form of Michael. Michael has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Michela is used in Italian and Occitan.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael and Michaela.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Michela is pronounced /miˈkɛ.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,217 girls were recorded with the name Michela between 1911 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 99 in 1998; its best national rank was #1,643 in 1998.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #6,242 in 2020 to #11,584 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #5,605 in 2015 to #11,584 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 Michela?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 201,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#11,584
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
287,238 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michela 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 287,238 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michela was born before 1996 — so the typical Michela is around 29 today.

Median birth year
1996
About 29 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
32.6% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
32.6%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
2,162
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Choose a decade

1990s — 32.6% of all recorded uses (722).

Is Michela 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
−4,438
Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago
−5,342
Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago
−5,979
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.33×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
8.1%
Peak was 1998 (99)
Years since peak
27
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.3% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,643
1998

Spellings of Michela

Michela is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 68.5% against Michela's 0.19%.

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 Michela is used

Across 1910–2025, Michela was most concentrated in Massachusetts — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 106,237 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

03 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Massachusetts1 in 33,333
  2. 2New York1 in 50,000
  3. 3California1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in 100,000
  5. 5New Jersey1 in 100,000
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Ohio1 in —
  8. 8Pennsylvania1 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. Michela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michela around the world

Where Michela 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
    1996–2022
    #4,646
    in 2022
  • Scotland
    1982–2000
    #629
    in 2000
  • Ireland
    1994–1998
    #498
    in 1998
  • France
    1951–2019
    #7,064
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1991–2020
    #2,008
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1958–2005
    #775
    in 2005

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 Michela

People whose public names include Michela, 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.

Michela in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Michela. Linked forms have their own page here.

MakaylaMcKaylaMicaelaMicheleMiguelaMihaelaMikaelaMyKaylaMichaelaMichellaMichelleMichalinaMiguelinaMichèleMihaéla

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Michela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#11,584
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Down 5,342
Best rank ever
#1,643
1998
Peak year
1998
99 that year
First recorded
1911
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
2,217
Count in 2025
8

Names similar to Michela

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

MicaelaMickaelaMichaelaMicaiahMichikoMickaylaMichealaMichellMichelMickieMichalMicaylaMichealIzabelaMichellaMakaelaMichelinaMichaellaMickelaMichalaRafaelaMickeyLeonelaMicha

Names with a curve like Michela

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

ShayeTeannaMarykateKorinaSarenaSamoneRebekaAshiaClarisaMonetJaneaGabriele

Sibling names for Michela

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

Explore around Michela

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