Michele — #4113 US girls' name

What the Data Says About Michele

The Social Security Administration has registered 223,268 babies named Michele between 1915 and 2024, spanning 110 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Michele currently holds the #4113 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1968, when 11,219 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michele performed strongest in the 1960s, accumulating 86,992 births during that ten-year window. Across the 12 decades of recorded activity, Michele shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in New York, which accounts for 33,602 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Pennsylvania. In total, SSA state-level files list Michele in 51 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michele 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 223,268 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.