Michela — #6922 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Michela

The Social Security Administration has registered 2,208 babies named Michela between 1911 and 2024, spanning 114 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Michela currently holds the #6922 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1998, when 99 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michela performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 722 births during that ten-year window. Across the 11 decades of recorded activity, Michela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 202 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Massachusetts. In total, SSA state-level files list Michela in 8 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michela 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 2,208 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.