Michaele

Where Michaele comes from

Michaele hasn't made it into the dictionaries we draw on, and nobody well known enough for an encyclopedia has carried it yet — so for now its story is the one the SSA record tells. Names that spell a familiar sound a new way often live here for a while before anyone writes them down.

  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1933
    First appearance
    #4,218 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1947
    Peak, #859
    104 babies named Michaele — more than any year before or since.
  3. 1948
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #1,267.
  4. 1951
    Michaele Schreyer born
    German politician
  5. 1963
    Michaele Sojka born
    German politician
  6. 2010
    Mostly girls from here
    Until now more boys than girls got the name; from this year it's the other way round, and has stayed that way.
In the dictionary

No dictionary entry for this spelling — which is its own kind of rare.

Namesakes
  • Michaele Schreyer · German politician, born 1951
  • Michaele Sojka · German politician, born 1963
  • Michaele Salahi · American television personality, born 1965

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.