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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Michel

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#4,642

down −980 places

2025 births

22

down −9 births

All-time births

10,539

0% of them in 2025

More common than

97%

of all archived spellings recorded for boys, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1957
284 births
Best rank
#458
in 1957
First recorded
1880
#878 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1968
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
127 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 1957284#458Peak
  2. 1960267#487
  3. 1961254#499
  4. 1953243#459
  5. 1954241#469

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #458 in 1957 · peak births 284 in 1957

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 75% boys■ 25% girls

10,539 boys · 3,555 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Michel has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.