Girls' name · since 1962
Meschelle
Meschelle has 39 recorded births since 1962 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1966 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 39
- total births
- 1962–1978
- years on record
- 1960s
- peak decade
- 67%
- born in that decade
39 girls have been named Meschelle since 1962, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Meschelle has 39 recorded births among girls since 1962, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1960s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1962 to 1978.
- 39 total births
- 1962–1978 years on record
- 1960s peak decade
- 67% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Meschelle's 39 recorded births place it above 47% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Meschelle's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Meschelle's SSA record in two at 1969 and the more recent half accounts for 46% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 54%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1967, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1966 peak of 9, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Meschelle popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1962–1978
- Peak year (1966)
- 9
- Annual births at peak, across 17 years of records
Meschelle by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1960s was Meschelle's strongest decade.
26 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 67% of all-time use.
Meschelle births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1960s
1960s
26 births
- 1970s
1970s
13 births
What this shows Peak: 1960s at 26 births (67% of all-time use).
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- Meschelle's usage has stayed within range of its 1960s decade-level peak (26 total births) through the 1970s (13) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1962–1978 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Meschelle: Baby Name Since 1962 - 39 Births, Peak 1966." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/meschelle. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Meschelle draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.