Michaele
Michaele was last recorded in 2010, when 7 babies were given it; 1,837 Americans have been recorded with it between 1933 and 2010 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,480 Americans named Michaele and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (80% of everyone recorded); the median is 60 years old and half are between 52 and 73.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michaele by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michaele?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,464, in 2010; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
104 babies in 1947, the peak
Michaele peaked in 1947, when 104 girls were given it, #858 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2010 | 7 | #14,464 | 3.9 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,677 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 10 | #9,252 | 5.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #13,548 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,209 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 9 | #9,269 | 5.1 |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,337 | 3.9 |
| 1993 | 16 | #5,845 | 8.8 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,349 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 8 | #9,916 | 4.3 |
Every recorded year (65)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 8 | #9,838 | 4.2 |
| 1989 | 14 | #6,027 | 7.6 |
| 1988 | 17 | #4,986 | 9.5 |
| 1987 | 23 | #3,820 | 13.2 |
| 1986 | 20 | #4,135 | 11.7 |
| 1985 | 16 | #4,785 | 9.3 |
| 1984 | 12 | #5,760 | 7.1 |
| 1983 | 16 | #4,609 | 9.6 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,647 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 16 | #4,659 | 9.6 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,899 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 25 | #3,300 | 15.6 |
| 1978 | 21 | #3,592 | 13.7 |
| 1977 | 17 | #4,171 | 11.1 |
| 1976 | 11 | #5,452 | 7.5 |
| 1975 | 17 | #3,879 | 11.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,389 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 28 | #2,606 | 19.2 |
| 1972 | 22 | #3,022 | 14.5 |
| 1971 | 33 | #2,358 | 19.8 |
| 1970 | 41 | #2,036 | 23.5 |
| 1969 | 53 | #1,659 | 31.4 |
| 1968 | 81 | #1,219 | 49.4 |
| 1967 | 97 | #1,056 | 58.8 |
| 1966 | 63 | #1,395 | 37.2 |
| 1965 | 67 | #1,342 | 38.0 |
| 1964 | 44 | #1,768 | 23.2 |
| 1963 | 46 | #1,705 | 23.9 |
| 1962 | 28 | #2,293 | 14.2 |
| 1961 | 27 | #2,340 | 13.4 |
| 1960 | 26 | #2,350 | 12.9 |
| 1959 | 24 | #2,376 | 11.9 |
| 1958 | 30 | #2,056 | 14.9 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,329 | 11.7 |
| 1956 | 27 | #2,136 | 13.4 |
| 1955 | 35 | #1,788 | 17.9 |
| 1954 | 28 | #2,010 | 14.4 |
| 1953 | 28 | #1,956 | 14.9 |
| 1952 | 26 | #2,004 | 14.0 |
| 1951 | 30 | #1,792 | 16.7 |
| 1950 | 30 | #1,752 | 17.5 |
| 1949 | 46 | #1,364 | 26.9 |
| 1948 | 52 | #1,279 | 30.6 |
| 1947 | 104 | #858 | 58.7 |
| 1946 | 46 | #1,282 | 29.3 |
| 1945 | 46 | #1,169 | 35.2 |
| 1944 | 44 | #1,194 | 33.2 |
| 1943 | 52 | #1,120 | 37.3 |
| 1942 | 55 | #1,059 | 40.7 |
| 1941 | 20 | #1,860 | 16.6 |
| 1940 | 12 | #2,523 | 10.5 |
| 1939 | 10 | #2,866 | 9.1 |
| 1938 | 5 | #4,778 | 4.5 |
| 1937 | 7 | #3,695 | 6.6 |
| 1933 | 5 | #4,660 | 5.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michaele a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,837 Americans recorded as Michaele, 99% are girls and 1% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Michaele: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michaele, and how old are they?
1,480 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 80% of the 1,837 Americans ever recorded as Michaele. The median Michaele alive today is 60 years old; half are between 52 and 73.
The 2020 Census counted 1,776 people named Michaele (1,633 women and girls, 143 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,587 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 127 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 533 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 559 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 217 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 39 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
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).
Where are babies named Michaele born?
The states with the most babies named Michaele are California, New York and Pennsylvania, with 76% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 155 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 78 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Pennsylvania | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 24 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Michigan | 15 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| New Jersey | 10 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 9 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Oregon | 7 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Connecticut | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Michaele with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,108,832 babies since 1880, Michaele is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 1,054 babies recorded by SSA was a Michaele (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Michaele
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 Michaele and names like it
- Compare Michaele and MichelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1940sMichaele peaked in 1947.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michaele since 1910.
- The top names of 1947The year the most babies were named Michaele.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Michaele alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.