Mechele
Mechele was last recorded in 1996, when 5 babies were given it; 722 Americans have been recorded with it between 1947 and 1996 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mechele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mechele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,994, in 1996; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
57 babies in 1966, the peak
Mechele peaked in 1966, when 57 girls were given it, #1,470 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1996 | 5 | #14,994 | 2.9 |
| 1995 | 5 | #14,918 | 2.8 |
| 1992 | 6 | #12,775 | 3.3 |
| 1991 | 9 | #9,065 | 4.8 |
| 1990 | 10 | #8,282 | 5.3 |
| 1989 | 8 | #9,313 | 4.3 |
| 1987 | 7 | #9,426 | 4.0 |
| 1983 | 6 | #9,773 | 3.6 |
| 1982 | 5 | #11,607 | 3.0 |
| 1981 | 8 | #7,864 | 4.8 |
Every recorded year (42)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1980 | 13 | #5,430 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,625 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 9 | #6,727 | 5.9 |
| 1977 | 9 | #6,667 | 5.9 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,766 | 12.3 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,877 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,387 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 31 | #2,439 | 21.3 |
| 1972 | 42 | #1,961 | 27.6 |
| 1971 | 29 | #2,575 | 17.4 |
| 1970 | 46 | #1,894 | 26.3 |
| 1969 | 41 | #1,969 | 24.3 |
| 1968 | 49 | #1,667 | 29.9 |
| 1967 | 48 | #1,652 | 29.1 |
| 1966 | 57 | #1,470 | 33.7 |
| 1965 | 16 | #3,217 | 9.1 |
| 1964 | 21 | #2,795 | 11.1 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,752 | 10.9 |
| 1962 | 29 | #2,243 | 14.7 |
| 1961 | 17 | #3,144 | 8.4 |
| 1960 | 14 | #3,469 | 6.9 |
| 1959 | 15 | #3,206 | 7.4 |
| 1958 | 12 | #3,673 | 6.0 |
| 1957 | 11 | #3,854 | 5.4 |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,561 | 2.5 |
| 1955 | 14 | #3,181 | 7.2 |
| 1954 | 7 | #4,991 | 3.6 |
| 1953 | 8 | #4,457 | 4.3 |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,127 | 2.7 |
| 1951 | 5 | #5,948 | 2.8 |
| 1950 | 6 | #5,095 | 3.5 |
| 1947 | 6 | #5,108 | 3.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mechele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mechele has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 42 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mechele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mechele, and how old are they?
An estimated 648 Americans named Mechele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (90% of everyone recorded); the median is 57 years old and half are between 53 and 61. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 704 people named Mechele (697 women and girls, 7 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 670 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% above that prediction.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
How common is the spelling Mechele?
Mechele is a less common spelling of Mechelle: SSA has recorded 722 Mechele and 4,386 Mechelle since 1880.
Of these 3 names spelled alike, given to 5,177 babies since 1880, Mechele is the second most given (14% of them).
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mechele
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mechele and names like it
- Compare Mechele and MechelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMechele peaked in 1966.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mechele since 1910.
- The top names of 1966The year the most babies were named Mechele.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mechele alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.