Michella
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Michael
A female name· listed as female by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 23 countries · latest register: Guyana, 2025
/mit͡ʃɛllɐ/(machine-generated) Portuguese · model-generated
Michella is a female given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- DKDenmark1 in 7.6K(measured from records)
- MQMartinique≈1 in 22K
- GYGuyana1 in 29K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 202 (measured from records)
- 1 in 7.6K (inferred from the name graph)
983 people, 2020
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Denmark
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a female given name, masculine equivalent Michael
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Michella 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 | 983 | 1 in 338K | 979 | Michella | 202 |
| DK Denmark | 775 | 1 in 7.6K | 775 | — | 1 |
| NL Netherlands | 583 | 1 in 30K | 583 | Michella | 29 |
| PH Philippines | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 217K | — | Michella | 28 |
| BR Brazil | 517 | 1 in 410K | 517 | — | 3 |
| LB Lebanon | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Michella | 8 |
| GY Guyana | 26 | 1 in 29K | 26 | Michella | 1 |
| MQ Martinique | ≈20 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 5 | — | — |
983 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; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025; INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (births by department), dpt 972 (Martinique). 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).
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michella Koxb. 1980NLDutch presenter and media personality
- Michella Adlenb. 1990IDIndonesian actress
- Michella MarchiBRMiss Brazil of 1998
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)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)38 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 23 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- How do you pronounce Michella?
- It depends on the language: in Portuguese /mit͡ʃɛllɐ/; in Spanish /mitʃeʝa/. Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- What does the name Michella mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Michael Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Michella a male or female name?
- Michella is a female name. National registers that list it by sex list it as female: United States (Census Bureau, 2020), Denmark (Danmarks Statistik), Netherlands (Meertens NVB) and Brazil (IBGE, 2022).
- Which countries have the most people named Michella?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 983 people named Michella, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michella. After it come Denmark, Netherlands, Philippines and Brazil; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Michella most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michella is densest in Denmark — about 1 in 7.6 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michella?
- In the United States, the national register counted 983 people named Michella in 2020, about 1 in 338 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/michellaThe 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, “Michella”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.