Michel — #3592 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Michel

The Social Security Administration has registered 10,516 babies named Michel between 1880 and 2024, spanning 145 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Michel currently holds the #3592 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1957, when 284 babies received it in a single year. Michel is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 3,545 additional births since 1939.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michel performed strongest in the 1950s, accumulating 2,309 births during that ten-year window. Across the 15 decades of recorded activity, Michel shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,170 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by New York and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Michel in 36 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michel in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 10,516 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.