Michella
Michella was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,350 among girls’ names; 1,104 Americans have been recorded with it since 1948 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,030 Americans named Michella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 46 years old and half are between 35 and 56.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Michella mean?
Wiktionary, Danish section
Michella is “a female given name, masculine equivalent Michael”
Meaning: Wiktionary, Danish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Michella?
#14,350 among girls’ names, 2025
Michella rose from #18,254 in 2015 to #14,350 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born rose from 2.8 to 3.7 per million.
42 babies in 1990, the peak
Michella peaked in 1990, when 42 girls were given it, #2,774 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,350 | 3.7 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,534 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,211 | 3.0 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,586 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 7 | #13,879 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #18,254 | 2.8 |
| 2012 | 5 | #18,658 | 2.8 |
| 2011 | 5 | #18,643 | 2.8 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,465 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,123 | 4.9 |
Every recorded year (66)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2008 | 9 | #12,275 | 4.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,946 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 10 | #11,165 | 5.3 |
| 2005 | 7 | #13,993 | 3.8 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,017 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 13 | #8,141 | 7.2 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,058 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,033 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 6 | #13,835 | 3.4 |
| 1998 | 17 | #5,981 | 9.6 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,706 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 10 | #8,605 | 5.7 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,499 | 8.0 |
| 1994 | 17 | #5,607 | 9.5 |
| 1993 | 21 | #4,747 | 11.6 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,923 | 14.6 |
| 1991 | 24 | #4,290 | 12.8 |
| 1990 | 42 | #2,774 | 22.1 |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,747 | 14.6 |
| 1988 | 21 | #4,259 | 11.8 |
| 1987 | 16 | #5,000 | 9.2 |
| 1986 | 21 | #3,972 | 12.2 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,800 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 17 | #4,434 | 10.1 |
| 1983 | 19 | #4,056 | 11.4 |
| 1982 | 25 | #3,386 | 14.8 |
| 1981 | 29 | #3,039 | 17.4 |
| 1980 | 15 | #4,900 | 9.0 |
| 1979 | 23 | #3,503 | 14.3 |
| 1978 | 26 | #3,063 | 17.0 |
| 1977 | 26 | #3,049 | 17.0 |
| 1976 | 20 | #3,485 | 13.7 |
| 1975 | 26 | #2,858 | 17.8 |
| 1974 | 34 | #2,326 | 23.2 |
| 1973 | 23 | #2,978 | 15.8 |
| 1972 | 36 | #2,162 | 23.7 |
| 1971 | 31 | #2,456 | 18.6 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,294 | 19.4 |
| 1969 | 36 | #2,121 | 21.3 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,598 | 14.6 |
| 1967 | 29 | #2,253 | 17.6 |
| 1966 | 26 | #2,391 | 15.4 |
| 1965 | 17 | #3,120 | 9.6 |
| 1964 | 27 | #2,391 | 14.2 |
| 1963 | 11 | #4,182 | 5.7 |
| 1962 | 14 | #3,544 | 7.1 |
| 1961 | 11 | #4,163 | 5.4 |
| 1960 | 12 | #3,852 | 5.9 |
| 1959 | 9 | #4,524 | 4.4 |
| 1958 | 16 | #3,050 | 8.0 |
| 1957 | 13 | #3,432 | 6.4 |
| 1956 | 15 | #3,134 | 7.5 |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,641 | 3.1 |
| 1954 | 10 | #3,883 | 5.1 |
| 1951 | 6 | #5,232 | 3.3 |
| 1948 | 5 | #5,773 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 66 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michella, and how old are they?
1,030 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,104 Americans ever recorded as Michella. The median Michella alive today is 46 years old; half are between 35 and 56.
The 2020 Census counted 983 people named Michella (979 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,044 born in the U.S. The Census count is 6% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 128 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 395 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 342 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 135 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 34 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,108,189 babies since 1880, Michella is the eighth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 1,065 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Michella
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 Michella and names like it
- Compare Michella and MichelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMichella peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michella since 1910.
- Danish namesWiktionary’s origin for Michella: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Michella.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Michella alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.