Michell
#11,932 for girls in 2025, 7 births · Last seen for boys in 2010 at #8,139
Given to girls 92.2% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1967 · 273 births
- Debut · girls
- 10 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 6,995since 1946
Michell over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #11,932 | 7 | — | |
| 2024 | #9,556 | 10 | — | |
| 2023 | #11,169 | 8 | — | |
| 2022 | #12,243 | 7 | — | |
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #10,250 | 9 | — | |
| 2019 | #15,539 | 5 | — | |
| 2018 | #15,682 | 5 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | — | |
| 2016 | #8,875 | 12 | — | |
| 2015 | #7,266 | 16 | — | |
| 2014 | #5,025 | 27 | — | |
| 2013 | #4,336 | 33 | — | |
| 2012 | #5,253 | 26 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,999 | 37 | — | |
| 2010 | #4,180 | 35 | #8,139 | 9 |
| 2009 | #2,940 | 59 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,557 | 73 | #9,871 | 7 |
| 2007 | #2,198 | 90 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,149 | 90 | — | |
| 2005 | #2,407 | 73 | — | |
| 2004 | #2,135 | 84 | — | |
| 2003 | #2,048 | 87 | — | |
| 2002 | #2,642 | 58 | #9,392 | 6 |
| 2001 | #2,075 | 80 | #9,243 | 6 |
| 2000 | #1,827 | 94 | #9,112 | 6 |
| 1999 | #2,368 | 62 | #7,139 | 8 |
| 1998 | #2,756 | 48 | — | |
| 1997 | #2,229 | 61 | #4,960 | 12 |
| 1996 | #2,591 | 48 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #1,955 | 70 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #1,890 | 75 | #7,770 | 6 |
| 1993 | #1,679 | 89 | #8,700 | 5 |
| 1992 | #2,128 | 63 | #4,114 | 14 |
| 1991 | #1,877 | 75 | #4,005 | 14 |
| 1990 | #1,533 | 100 | #3,971 | 14 |
| 1989 | #1,574 | 89 | #4,271 | 12 |
| 1988 | #1,541 | 86 | #3,523 | 14 |
| 1987 | #1,411 | 94 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #1,526 | 80 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #1,373 | 94 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #1,190 | 110 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1983 | #1,144 | 116 | #6,238 | 5 |
| 1982 | #1,053 | 137 | #2,831 | 16 |
| 1981 | #987 | 148 | #6,262 | 5 |
| 1980 | #1,097 | 126 | #5,525 | 6 |
| 1979 | #1,025 | 137 | #2,897 | 15 |
| 1978 | #976 | 142 | #3,857 | 9 |
| 1977 | #891 | 159 | #3,836 | 9 |
| 1976 | #785 | 182 | #3,724 | 9 |
| 1975 | #652 | 233 | #3,246 | 11 |
| 1974 | #621 | 251 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #606 | 255 | #3,445 | 9 |
| 1972 | #617 | 252 | #3,344 | 9 |
| 1971 | #596 | 290 | #4,375 | 6 |
| 1970 | #620 | 275 | #1,989 | 20 |
| 1969 | #603 | 272 | #2,308 | 14 |
| 1968 | #611 | 247 | #2,445 | 12 |
| 1967 | #577 | 273 | #2,352 | 12 |
| 1966 | #726 | 185 | #2,216 | 13 |
| 1965 | #846 | 139 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #912 | 131 | #2,310 | 13 |
| 1963 | #953 | 123 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1962 | #1,024 | 110 | #1,896 | 18 |
| 1961 | #1,193 | 86 | #2,900 | 9 |
| 1960 | #1,156 | 89 | #2,210 | 14 |
| 1959 | #1,230 | 75 | #2,200 | 14 |
| 1958 | #1,630 | 43 | #2,265 | 13 |
| 1957 | #1,550 | 48 | #3,024 | 8 |
| 1956 | #2,005 | 29 | #3,942 | 5 |
| 1955 | #1,978 | 29 | #2,219 | 13 |
| 1954 | #1,801 | 33 | #2,743 | 9 |
| 1953 | #2,921 | 14 | #2,905 | 8 |
| 1952 | #2,200 | 22 | #2,875 | 8 |
| 1951 | #2,694 | 15 | — | |
| 1950 | #3,962 | 8 | #2,438 | 10 |
| 1949 | #3,393 | 10 | #3,019 | 7 |
| 1948 | #3,883 | 8 | #2,788 | 8 |
| 1947 | #5,295 | 5 | #2,671 | 9 |
| 1946 | #3,217 | 10 | — | |
| 1945 | — | #2,996 | 6 | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Michell! It came in at #3,217, and was given to 10 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1947, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Michell
- 2,376 spots since 2024 (#9,556 → #11,932)
- 1,682 spots since 2020 (#10,250 → #11,932)
- 4,666 spots since 2015 (#7,266 → #11,932)
- Biggest jump: 149 spots in 1967 (#726 → #577)
- Biggest drop: 133 spots in 1976 (#652 → #785)
- Debuted 1946
- Peaked 1967 at #577 (273 births)
- Births halved by 1980, 13 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 17 yrs · run 1963–1978
- Highest: 1 in 5,718 girls born in 1973 were named Michell (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 229,610 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #577 in 1967, was only 1 in 6,048 (0.02%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 31.1% of all girls named Michell (2,176) were born in this decade
- Mostly boys until 1950, mostly girls since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 33 | #3,217 (1946) | #3,947 |
| 1950s | 316 | #1,230 (1959) | #2,197 |
| 1960s | 1,655 | #577 (1967) | #860 |
| 1970s | 2,176 | #596 (1971) | #739 |
| 1980s | 1,080 | #987 (1981) | #1,290 |
| 1990s | 691 | #1,533 (1990) | #2,101 |
| 2000s | 788 | #1,827 (2000) | #2,298 |
| 2010s | 208 | #3,999 (2011) | #7,893 |
| 2020s | 48 | #9,556 (2024) | #11,226 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Michell in 1975
Top girls' names in 1975
Top boys' names in 1975
More about 1975
girls
1,457,861 girls got a published name in 1975; 1 in 6,257 of them was named Michell, which outranked 93.9% of the 10,618 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.4% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
boys
1,561,357 boys got a published name in 1975; 1 in 141,942 of them was named Michell, which outranked 48.8% of the 6,337 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 25.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,078Yul12
- #3,078Zak12
- #3,078Zeb12
- #3,246Michell11
- #3,246Adarryl11
- #3,246Adelbert11
- #3,246Adin11
- #3,428Addam10
- #3,428Adem10
- #3,428Aj10
Tied with 181 names at #3,246; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.