Michela
Michela was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,584 among girls’ names; 2,217 Americans have been recorded with it since 1911 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,120 Americans named Michela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 30 years old and half are between 22 and 39.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Michela mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Michela is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Michele, equivalent to English Michaela or Michelle”
/miˈkɛ.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Michela?
#11,584 among girls’ names, 2025
Michela fell from #5,605 in 2015 to #11,584 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 13.4 to 5.0 per million.
99 babies in 1998, the peak
Michela peaked in 1998, when 99 girls were given it, #1,643 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 8% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,584 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 16 | #7,146 | 9.9 |
| 2023 | 12 | #8,806 | 7.5 |
| 2022 | 17 | #6,897 | 10.4 |
| 2021 | 17 | #6,880 | 10.4 |
| 2020 | 19 | #6,242 | 11.8 |
| 2019 | 14 | #8,011 | 8.3 |
| 2018 | 11 | #9,605 | 6.5 |
| 2017 | 14 | #8,142 | 8.1 |
| 2016 | 17 | #7,121 | 9.6 |
Every recorded year (83)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 24 | #5,605 | 13.4 |
| 2014 | 24 | #5,574 | 13.4 |
| 2013 | 27 | #5,099 | 15.4 |
| 2012 | 33 | #4,450 | 18.7 |
| 2011 | 24 | #5,666 | 13.6 |
| 2010 | 37 | #4,084 | 20.8 |
| 2009 | 29 | #5,045 | 15.8 |
| 2008 | 41 | #3,912 | 21.7 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,632 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 41 | #3,773 | 21.6 |
| 2005 | 42 | #3,561 | 22.7 |
| 2004 | 40 | #3,670 | 21.8 |
| 2003 | 53 | #2,912 | 29.0 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,399 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 64 | #2,447 | 35.5 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,556 | 32.5 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,990 | 44.5 |
| 1998 | 99 | #1,643 | 56.0 |
| 1997 | 87 | #1,753 | 50.0 |
| 1996 | 89 | #1,708 | 50.8 |
| 1995 | 61 | #2,202 | 34.7 |
| 1994 | 86 | #1,719 | 48.2 |
| 1993 | 56 | #2,306 | 31.0 |
| 1992 | 55 | #2,364 | 29.8 |
| 1991 | 52 | #2,432 | 27.7 |
| 1990 | 58 | #2,216 | 30.5 |
| 1989 | 34 | #3,136 | 18.4 |
| 1988 | 62 | #1,958 | 34.8 |
| 1987 | 34 | #2,886 | 19.6 |
| 1986 | 34 | #2,818 | 19.8 |
| 1985 | 59 | #1,892 | 34.3 |
| 1984 | 29 | #3,039 | 17.2 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,055 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 21 | #3,861 | 12.4 |
| 1981 | 24 | #3,501 | 14.4 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,446 | 10.2 |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,629 | 7.5 |
| 1978 | 17 | #4,186 | 11.1 |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,565 | 9.8 |
| 1976 | 25 | #2,976 | 17.1 |
| 1975 | 20 | #3,474 | 13.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #3,391 | 13.6 |
| 1973 | 12 | #4,746 | 8.2 |
| 1972 | 14 | #4,230 | 9.2 |
| 1971 | 17 | #3,748 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #4,673 | 6.9 |
| 1969 | 5 | #8,240 | 3.0 |
| 1968 | 13 | #3,928 | 7.9 |
| 1967 | 10 | #4,515 | 6.1 |
| 1966 | 10 | #4,384 | 5.9 |
| 1965 | 12 | #3,877 | 6.8 |
| 1964 | 12 | #4,032 | 6.3 |
| 1963 | 6 | #6,355 | 3.1 |
| 1962 | 9 | #4,765 | 4.6 |
| 1961 | 9 | #4,782 | 4.5 |
| 1960 | 8 | #5,037 | 4.0 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,108 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,860 | 2.9 |
| 1956 | 9 | #4,366 | 4.5 |
| 1955 | 12 | #3,511 | 6.1 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,547 | 3.1 |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,255 | 2.7 |
| 1952 | 7 | #4,787 | 3.8 |
| 1951 | 7 | #4,687 | 3.9 |
| 1950 | 5 | #5,851 | 2.9 |
| 1949 | 8 | #4,122 | 4.7 |
| 1946 | 8 | #3,883 | 5.1 |
| 1945 | 9 | #3,309 | 6.9 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,049 | 3.8 |
| 1942 | 10 | #3,135 | 7.4 |
| 1930 | 5 | #5,032 | 4.4 |
| 1916 | 5 | #4,922 | 4.8 |
| 1911 | 5 | #2,733 | 12.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 83 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michela, and how old are they?
2,120 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 2,217 Americans ever recorded as Michela. The median Michela alive today is 30 years old; half are between 22 and 39.
The 2020 Census counted 2,684 people named Michela (2,651 women and girls, 33 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,059 born in the U.S. The Census count is 30% 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 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 101 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 215 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 754 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 817 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 219 |
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 Michela born?
The states with the most babies named Michela are New York, California and Massachusetts, with 82% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Massachusetts is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 202 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| California | 183 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 126 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Florida | 32 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| New Jersey | 26 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Pennsylvania | 24 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Ohio | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 15 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Michela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Michela is most over-represented in Massachusetts: since 1911 it was given 2.4 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Michela 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 1,108,922 babies since 1880, Michela is the fifth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 1,059 babies (<1%), again the fifth most given.
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 Michela
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 Michela and names like it
- Compare Michela and MichelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMichela peaked in 1998.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michela since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Michela: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Michela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Michela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.