Michaella
- #4,172 for girls in 2025, 34 births
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 138 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,309since 1941
Michaella over time
Rank among girls' names. Michaella has never cracked the top 1,000 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #4,172 | 34 |
| 2024 | #5,021 | 26 |
| 2023 | #5,549 | 22 |
| 2022 | #5,309 | 24 |
| 2021 | #4,964 | 26 |
| 2020 | #5,850 | 20 |
| 2019 | #5,449 | 23 |
| 2018 | #5,152 | 25 |
| 2017 | #4,695 | 29 |
| 2016 | #3,849 | 39 |
| 2015 | #4,853 | 28 |
| 2014 | #4,178 | 35 |
| 2013 | #4,243 | 34 |
| 2012 | #4,601 | 31 |
| 2011 | #4,244 | 34 |
| 2010 | #3,572 | 44 |
| 2009 | #4,805 | 30 |
| 2008 | #3,584 | 45 |
| 2007 | #3,601 | 45 |
| 2006 | #4,073 | 36 |
| 2005 | #3,942 | 36 |
| 2004 | #2,620 | 63 |
| 2003 | #2,707 | 58 |
| 2002 | #2,582 | 60 |
| 2001 | #2,331 | 68 |
| 2000 | #1,900 | 89 |
| 1999 | #1,940 | 81 |
| 1998 | #1,443 | 118 |
| 1997 | #1,261 | 141 |
| 1996 | #1,478 | 111 |
| 1995 | #1,235 | 138 |
| 1994 | #1,357 | 123 |
| 1993 | #1,753 | 84 |
| 1992 | #2,513 | 50 |
| 1991 | #2,790 | 42 |
| 1990 | #3,078 | 36 |
| 1989 | #2,478 | 46 |
| 1988 | #4,840 | 17 |
| 1987 | #3,031 | 31 |
| 1986 | #4,186 | 19 |
| 1985 | #3,852 | 21 |
| 1984 | #3,329 | 25 |
| 1983 | #4,884 | 14 |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 |
| 1981 | #4,162 | 18 |
| 1980 | #5,245 | 13 |
| 1979 | #5,092 | 13 |
| 1978 | #6,385 | 9 |
| 1977 | #8,444 | 6 |
| 1976 | #8,156 | 6 |
| 1975 | #7,984 | 6 |
| 1974 | #6,258 | 8 |
| 1973 | #4,871 | 11 |
| 1972 | #4,300 | 13 |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 |
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| 1969 | #4,723 | 10 |
| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 |
| 1966 | #3,740 | 12 |
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| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 |
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| 1960 | #6,390 | 5 |
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| 1955 | #5,208 | 6 |
| 1954 | #5,753 | 5 |
| 1953 | #3,687 | 10 |
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| 1951 | #5,414 | 5 |
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| 1948 | #5,243 | 5 |
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| 1941 | #4,420 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Michaella! It came in at #4,420, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1941–1952, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Michaella is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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| Florida | #1,685 | 7 | 1 in 12,395 |
| Texas | #2,921 | 6 | 1 in 26,757 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Michaella
- 1,678 spots since 2020 (#5,850 → #4,172)
- Debuted 1941
- Peaked 1995 at #1,235 (138 births)
- Births halved by 2001, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 12,345 girls born in 1997 were named Michaella (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 47,273 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,235 in 1995, was only 1 in 12,743 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 40.0% of all girls named Michaella (924) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1940s | 10 | #4,420 (1941) | #4,832 |
| 1950s | 26 | #3,687 (1953) | #5,016 |
| 1960s | 47 | #3,740 (1966) | #5,335 |
| 1970s | 79 | #4,300 (1972) | #6,457 |
| 1980s | 219 | #2,478 (1989) | #4,072 |
| 1990s | 924 | #1,235 (1995) | #1,885 |
| 2000s | 530 | #1,900 (2000) | #3,215 |
| 2010s | 322 | #3,572 (2010) | #4,484 |
| 2020s | 152 | #4,172 (2025) | #5,144 |
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.
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