Michele

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in French: Italian/French feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/majkələ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Michele 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.

rarermore common
  • 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 Michele 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)

3,476,721 named Michael, 2020

#3 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

10 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
726 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.1K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MichaelLatin(measured from records)
МихаилCyrillic(measured from records)
מיכאלHebrew(measured from records)
ΜιχαηλGreek(measured from records)
ՄիքայելArmenian(measured from records)
ไมเคิลThai(measured from records)
მიხეილიGeorgian(measured from records)
মাইকেলBengali(measured from records)
미카엘Hangul(measured from records)
ମାଇକେଲOdia(measured from records)

7 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)

Italian/French feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Michele is read(measured from records)

Michele is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English65%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Michele in English.

  • French8.1%

    Italian/French feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

    Origine hébraïque, signifie « comme Dieu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • Portuguese6.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Michele in Portuguese.

  • Italian6.2%

    from the personal name Michele, Italian equivalent of Michael.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

    Ebraico: 'chi è uguale a Dio?'; festa il 29 settembre.

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    dall’ebr. Mi ka’el, ‘chi è come Dio?’

    as a nameDizionario Dei Nomi e Cognomi Italiani

    Ebraico - . N clii uguale a Dio? n. 29 settembre. Xolti cognomi di derivazione evidente. In Friuli Zicél. Xicelés, Micelin. Cogn. Micelli, Michelés, >lichelesio, Micés, Micesio, Michelizza. In Cella, Celotti qualche probabiliti per altri nomi (Marc:ello, ecc.). Veneti: Chelini, Chelotti, -lucci. Chelii. Italia meridionale: Miceli.

    as a nameNomi e Cognomi: Saggio di ricerche etimologiche e storiche

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Michele 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.

Where Michele is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#23,476,721as Michael1 in 963.5MMichael726
RU Russia#22≈1,600,000 est.≈1 in 89#8Михаил272
DE Germany#2≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 71listedMichael389
GB United Kingdom#3≈900,000 est.≈1 in 73626Michael482
NG Nigeria#13≈710,000 est.≈1 in 300—Michael200
CZ Czechia#3246,648as Michal1 in 43247KMichal211
BR Brazil#269187,2811 in 1.1K202KMichael213
FI Finland#144106,915as Mikael1 in 52133KMikael112
IE Ireland#3≈75,000 est.≈1 in 69—Michael225

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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Michele is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Miche-Le, Michelé, Michéle, Michèle, Michelè

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Kenya, Italy, United Kingdom

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Michéle, Michelé

  • Greek given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Greece, United States, Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Mikele, Michèle, Michelē, Μιχέλε, Μικέλε

85 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

12001400160018002000Michele Morosini, b. 1308Mikael Agricola, b. 1508Giacomo Puccini, b. 1858Michele Lee, b. 1942Michele Placido, b. 1946Michele Marsh, b. 1946Michele Bachmann, b. 1956Michele Soavi, b. 1957Lea Michele, b. 1986Michele Morrone Algoes, b. 1990

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

How to address them(machine-generated)

InformalHi Michele,

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 100 sources across 53 countries.

Official registers attesting Michele
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—202K#261
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020196K#277
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022187K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—186K#176
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.9K#277
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.1K#176
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020988—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—219#1,785
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—170#1,021
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—154#2,145
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—51—
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—48—

Reference works 7

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What are other forms of the name Michele?
In the etymology graph, Michel is a form of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Michele mean, and where does it come from?
Italian/French feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How common is the name Michele?
In Brazil, the national register counted 187,281 people named Michele in 2022, about 1 in 1.1 thousand residents.
How common is Michele compared with other names?
In the United States, Michele is the 2nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
In which country does Michele 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 Michele most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michele is densest in Brazil — about 1 in 1.1 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How do you pronounce Michele?
A machine transcription gives /majkələ/ (IPA) for English.
Is Michele a male or female name?
Michele 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.

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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, “Michele” — the 2nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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