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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Michelle

Recorded for both sexesGen X

2025 rank

#465

down −56 places

2025 births

661

down −114 births

All-time births

816,510

0% of them in 2025

More common than

100%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1969
34,319 births
Best rank
#2
in 1968
First recorded
1915
#4,754 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1977
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
108 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 196934,319#2Peak
  2. 197034,047#4
  3. 196833,223#2
  4. 197133,160#2
  5. 196730,827#3

Rank over time

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

Best rank #2 in 1968 · peak births 34,319 in 1969

Boys and girls

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

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

3,250 boys · 816,510 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 Michelle has ranked, decade by decade

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