Michell
Michell was given to 7 girls in 2025, #12,740 among girls’ names; 7,583 Americans have been recorded with it since 1926 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,030 Americans named Michell and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 50 years old and half are between 36 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michell by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michell?
#12,740 among girls’ names, 2025
Michell fell from #7,492 in 2015 to #12,740 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 9.0 to 4.4 per million.
296 babies in 1971, the peak
Michell peaked in 1971, when 296 babies were given it (290 girls, #596 among girls’ names). The 7 births of 2025 are 2% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 7 | #12,740 | under 0.01 |
| 2024 | 10 | #10,011 | 0.01 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,844 | under 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,132 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,057 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,831 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,210 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 5 | #17,347 | under 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,161 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,247 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (80)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 16 | #7,492 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 27 | #5,119 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 33 | #4,392 | 0.02 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,358 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,044 | 0.02 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,270 | 0.02 |
| 2009 | 59 | #2,956 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,571 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 90 | #2,209 | 0.05 |
| 2006 | 90 | #2,161 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 73 | #2,421 | 0.04 |
| 2004 | 84 | #2,146 | 0.05 |
| 2003 | 87 | #2,056 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 58 | #2,658 | 0.03 |
| 2001 | 80 | #2,082 | 0.04 |
| 2000 | 94 | #1,837 | 0.05 |
| 1999 | 62 | #2,388 | 0.03 |
| 1998 | 48 | #2,786 | 0.03 |
| 1997 | 61 | #2,247 | 0.04 |
| 1996 | 48 | #2,609 | 0.03 |
| 1995 | 70 | #1,964 | 0.04 |
| 1994 | 75 | #1,896 | 0.04 |
| 1993 | 89 | #1,685 | 0.05 |
| 1992 | 63 | #2,143 | 0.03 |
| 1991 | 75 | #1,884 | 0.04 |
| 1990 | 100 | #1,535 | 0.05 |
| 1989 | 89 | #1,577 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 86 | #1,545 | 0.05 |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,413 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 80 | #1,531 | 0.05 |
| 1985 | 94 | #1,379 | 0.05 |
| 1984 | 110 | #1,196 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 116 | #1,147 | 0.07 |
| 1982 | 137 | #1,056 | 0.08 |
| 1981 | 148 | #990 | 0.09 |
| 1980 | 126 | #1,102 | 0.08 |
| 1979 | 137 | #1,028 | 0.09 |
| 1978 | 142 | #979 | 0.09 |
| 1977 | 159 | #897 | 0.10 |
| 1976 | 182 | #785 | 0.12 |
| 1975 | 233 | #654 | 0.16 |
| 1974 | 251 | #622 | 0.17 |
| 1973 | 255 | #608 | 0.17 |
| 1972 | 252 | #617 | 0.17 |
| 1971 | 290 | #596 | 0.17 |
| 1970 | 275 | #620 | 0.16 |
| 1969 | 272 | #603 | 0.16 |
| 1968 | 247 | #612 | 0.15 |
| 1967 | 273 | #577 | 0.17 |
| 1966 | 185 | #727 | 0.11 |
| 1965 | 139 | #849 | 0.08 |
| 1964 | 131 | #916 | 0.07 |
| 1963 | 123 | #957 | 0.06 |
| 1962 | 110 | #1,029 | 0.06 |
| 1961 | 86 | #1,197 | 0.04 |
| 1960 | 89 | #1,157 | 0.04 |
| 1959 | 75 | #1,239 | 0.04 |
| 1958 | 43 | #1,646 | 0.02 |
| 1957 | 48 | #1,566 | 0.02 |
| 1956 | 29 | #2,035 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 29 | #2,007 | 0.01 |
| 1954 | 33 | #1,819 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 14 | #3,049 | 0.01 |
| 1952 | 22 | #2,244 | 0.01 |
| 1951 | 15 | #2,773 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 8 | #4,206 | under 0.01 |
| 1949 | 10 | #3,546 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 8 | #4,104 | under 0.01 |
| 1947 | 5 | #5,853 | under 0.01 |
| 1946 | 10 | #3,370 | 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michell a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 7,583 Americans recorded as Michell, 92% are girls and 8% boys. In 2025 it went to 7 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Michell: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michell, and how old are they?
7,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 7,583 Americans ever recorded as Michell. The median Michell alive today is 50 years old; half are between 36 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 7,205 people named Michell (6,523 women and girls, 682 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 7,135 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 3 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 863 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 3,320 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,580 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 157 |
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 Michell born?
The states with the most babies named Michell are California, Texas and New York, with 49% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 1,085 | not ranked | 1.3× |
| Texas | 576 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| New York | 482 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Illinois | 265 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Florida | 230 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 220 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Michigan | 197 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 156 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Louisiana | 147 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Georgia | 124 | not ranked | 0.6× |
Where Michell is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Michell is most over-represented in California: since 1926 it was given 1.3 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 Michell 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 3 names spelled alike, given to 15,461 babies since 1880, Michell is the second most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 7 of their 55 babies (13%), again the second 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 Michell
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 Michell and names like it
- Compare Michell and MichalBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMichell peaked in 1971.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michell since 1910.
- The top names of 1971The year the most babies were named Michell.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Michell alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.