Michéle
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Female form of Michel; Heb
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miʃel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michéle is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name.
- BRBrazil1 in 1.1K(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 43as Michal
- FIFinland1 in 52as Mikael
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Michéle itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #3 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 726 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)
3,476,721 named Michael, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 3 more, Михаил in RU Russia, Michal in CZ Czechia and Mikael in FI Finland.
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)
Female form of Michel; Heb. 'Who is like God?'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 27 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Michéle 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 | #2 | 3,476,721as Michael | 1 in 96 | 3.5M | Michael | 726 |
| RU Russia | #22 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | #8 | Михаил | 272 |
| DE Germany | #2 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | listed | Michael | 389 |
| GB United Kingdom | #3 | ≈900,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | 626 | Michael | 482 |
| NG Nigeria | #13 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | — | Michael | 200 |
| CZ Czechia | #3 | 246,648as Michal | 1 in 43 | 247K | Michal | 211 |
| BR Brazil | #269 | 187,281 | 1 in 1.1K | 202K | Michael | 213 |
| FI Finland | #144 | 106,915as Mikael | 1 in 52 | 133K | Mikael | 112 |
| IE Ireland | #3 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 69 | — | Michael | 225 |
3,476,721 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Michéle is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, Variante di Micheli
as a nameDizionario dei cognomi italiani
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 11 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 41 | #7,248 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 35 | #9,934 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 24 | #3,002 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 9 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Where does the name Michéle come from?
- Female form of Michel; Heb. 'Who is like God?'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- How do you pronounce Michéle?
- A machine transcription gives /miʃel/ (IPA) for French.
- What does the name Michéle mean?
- Recorded meaning: Female form of Michel; Heb.
- Is Michéle a male or female name?
- Michéle is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Michéle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 million people named Michael, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Michéle most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michéle is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michéle?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 187,281 people named Michéle in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
- How common is Michéle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Michéle is the 2nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mich%C3%A9leThe 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, “Michéle” — the 2nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.