Michell — #9622 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Michell

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,988 babies named Michell between 1946 and 2024, spanning 79 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Michell currently holds the #9622 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 1971, when 290 babies received it in a single year. Michell is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 588 additional births since 1926.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michell performed strongest in the 1970s, accumulating 2,176 births during that ten-year window. Across the 9 decades of recorded activity, Michell shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,069 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Michell in 34 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michell 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 6,988 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.