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Michella

#14,350 in 2025Girls' name

Who is like God?, through Michael

Michella has been given to 1,104 babies in the U.S. since 1948. In 2025 it ranked #14,350 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1990, with 42 recorded.

Babies named Michella, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michella: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michella means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Michella is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,104 girls were recorded with the name Michella between 1948 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 42 in 1990; its best national rank was #2,121 in 1969.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,534 in 2020 to #14,350 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #18,254 in 2015 to #14,350 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 Michella?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 268,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#14,350
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michella 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michella was born before 1979 — so the typical Michella is around 46 today.

Median birth year
1979
About 46 years old
Biggest decade
1970s
25.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
10.8%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,099
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1970s — 25.3% of all recorded uses (279).

Is Michella 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+184
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+3,904
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.20×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
14.3%
Peak was 1990 (42)
Years since peak
35
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
46.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#2,121
1969

Spellings of Michella

Michella is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 69.9% against Michella's 0.09%.

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 Michella is used

Across 1910–2025, Michella was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 861,103 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

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

Michella around the world

Where Michella 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
    #5,927
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    1964–1964
    #372
    in 1964
  • France
    1934–2023
    #6,065
    in 2023
  • South Australia
    1962–1989
    #692
    in 1989

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

Michella by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#14,350
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 184
Best rank ever
#2,121
1969
Peak year
1990
42 that year
First recorded
1948
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
1,104
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Michella

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

MicaellaMichaellaMichallaMichealaMickaylaMichikoMicaiahMicheallaGianellaMichelinaMichelaAribellaMichaylaMarvellaRafaellaMaryellaFiorellaEsabellaMikaellaMichaeleAuriellaManuellaAbriellaYsabella

Sibling names for Michella

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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