Michélle
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mɪtʃeɪɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michélle 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 34th most common given name.
- 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)
- Sources
- 669 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 224 (inferred from the name graph)
757,098 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
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
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Michélle 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).
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)
No register attests this spelling yet
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Michélle?
- A machine transcription gives /mɪtʃeɪɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- Is Michélle a male or female name?
- Michélle is a female 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 Michélle have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 757 thousand people named Michélle, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michelle.
- How common is the name Michélle?
- In the United States, the national register counted 757,098 people named Michélle in 2020, about 1 in 439 residents.
- How common is Michélle compared with other names?
- In the United States, Michélle is the 34th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Michélle?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mich%C3%A9lleThe 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, “Michélle” — the 34th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.