Mishelle
Mishelle was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,499 among girls’ names; 1,183 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,110 Americans named Mishelle and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (94% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 26 and 57.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mishelle by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mishelle?
#16,499 among girls’ names, 2025
Mishelle fell from #7,875 in 2015 to #16,499 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 3.1 per million.
54 babies in 1969, the peak
Mishelle peaked in 1969, when 54 girls were given it, #1,643 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,499 | 3.1 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,707 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,032 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 5 | #16,967 | 3.0 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,897 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,557 | 3.7 |
| 2019 | 9 | #11,090 | 5.4 |
| 2018 | 10 | #10,325 | 5.9 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,614 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,612 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (70)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 15 | #7,875 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,692 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 7 | #14,164 | 4.0 |
| 2012 | 6 | #16,252 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 14 | #8,487 | 8.0 |
| 2010 | 13 | #9,072 | 7.3 |
| 2009 | 13 | #9,238 | 7.1 |
| 2008 | 13 | #9,340 | 6.9 |
| 2007 | 21 | #6,480 | 10.9 |
| 2006 | 16 | #7,740 | 8.4 |
| 2005 | 18 | #6,733 | 9.7 |
| 2004 | 21 | #5,900 | 11.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,497 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 21 | #5,606 | 11.7 |
| 2001 | 11 | #9,161 | 6.1 |
| 2000 | 14 | #7,441 | 7.7 |
| 1999 | 15 | #6,736 | 8.5 |
| 1998 | 12 | #7,868 | 6.8 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,709 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 19 | #5,213 | 10.8 |
| 1995 | 15 | #6,160 | 8.5 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,162 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,950 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 12 | #7,360 | 6.5 |
| 1991 | 23 | #4,435 | 12.3 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,207 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 16 | #5,462 | 8.7 |
| 1988 | 18 | #4,777 | 10.1 |
| 1987 | 8 | #8,476 | 4.6 |
| 1986 | 13 | #5,658 | 7.6 |
| 1985 | 10 | #6,778 | 5.8 |
| 1984 | 6 | #9,927 | 3.6 |
| 1983 | 12 | #5,692 | 7.2 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,653 | 9.4 |
| 1981 | 19 | #4,112 | 11.4 |
| 1980 | 14 | #5,139 | 8.4 |
| 1979 | 19 | #3,991 | 11.8 |
| 1978 | 15 | #4,597 | 9.8 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,861 | 12.4 |
| 1976 | 9 | #6,403 | 6.1 |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,067 | 11.0 |
| 1974 | 32 | #2,420 | 21.8 |
| 1973 | 21 | #3,195 | 14.4 |
| 1972 | 28 | #2,564 | 18.4 |
| 1971 | 35 | #2,282 | 21.0 |
| 1970 | 40 | #2,069 | 22.9 |
| 1969 | 54 | #1,643 | 32.0 |
| 1968 | 39 | #1,931 | 23.8 |
| 1967 | 33 | #2,060 | 20.0 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,009 | 20.1 |
| 1965 | 28 | #2,278 | 15.9 |
| 1964 | 24 | #2,581 | 12.7 |
| 1963 | 25 | #2,466 | 13.0 |
| 1962 | 27 | #2,344 | 13.7 |
| 1961 | 23 | #2,586 | 11.4 |
| 1960 | 18 | #2,957 | 8.9 |
| 1959 | 20 | #2,646 | 9.9 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,111 | 5.0 |
| 1957 | 10 | #4,107 | 4.9 |
| 1954 | 6 | #5,550 | 3.1 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mishelle a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mishelle has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 70 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mishelle: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mishelle, and how old are they?
1,110 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 94% of the 1,183 Americans ever recorded as Mishelle. The median Mishelle alive today is 45 years old; half are between 26 and 57.
The 2020 Census counted 1,218 people named Mishelle (1,215 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,101 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 138 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 402 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 244 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 230 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 99 |
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 2 names spelled alike, given to 1,237 babies since 1880, Mishelle is the most given (96% of them).
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 Mishelle
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 Mishelle and names like it
- Compare Mishelle and MisheleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1960sMishelle peaked in 1969.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mishelle since 1910.
- The top names of 1969The year the most babies were named Mishelle.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Mishelle alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.