Michèlle
given name · Latin script
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Michèlle is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: Recently borrowed from French Michelle.
- AUAustralia≈1 in 224(inferred from the name graph)
- IEIreland≈1 in 242
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 273
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #77 (measured from records)
- 4 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 669 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 224 (inferred from the name graph)
757,098 people, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Australia, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michelle in US United States, GB United Kingdom, AU Australia and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)Recently borrowed from French Michelle.
Cited for this meaning 6
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Irish first names
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Michèlle counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #34 | 757,098 | 1 in 439 | 756K | Michelle | 669 |
| PH Philippines | #21 | ≈300,000 est. | ≈1 in 362 | — | Michelle | 207 |
| GB United Kingdom | #46 | ≈230,000 est. | ≈1 in 282 | — | Michelle | 378 |
| CA Canada | #29 | ≈130,000 est. | ≈1 in 296 | 16 | Michelle | 354 |
| AU Australia | #21 | ≈110,000 est. | ≈1 in 224 | 88 | Michelle | 327 |
| IE Ireland | #25 | ≈21,000 est. | ≈1 in 242 | — | Michelle | 166 |
| NZ New Zealand | #29 | ≈18,000 est. | ≈1 in 273 | — | Michelle | 196 |
757,098 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Michèlle mean, and where does it come from?
- Recently borrowed from French Michelle. Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 4 other sources.
- Is Michèlle a male or female name?
- Michèlle is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: Netherlands (Meertens NVB).
- In which country does Michèlle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 757 thousand people named Michèlle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michelle.
- How common is the name Michèlle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 757,098 people named Michèlle in 2020, about 1 in 439 residents.
- How common is Michèlle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Michèlle is the 34th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mich%C3%A8lleThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Michèlle” — the 34th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.