Michela
#10,917 for girls in 2025, 8 births
- Peak · girls
- 1998 · 99 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,217since 1911
Michela over time
Rank among girls' names. Michela 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 | #10,917 | 8 |
| 2024 | #6,932 | 16 |
| 2023 | #8,486 | 12 |
| 2022 | #6,707 | 17 |
| 2021 | #6,691 | 17 |
| 2020 | #6,083 | 19 |
| 2019 | #7,716 | 14 |
| 2018 | #9,151 | 11 |
| 2017 | #7,840 | 14 |
| 2016 | #6,901 | 17 |
| 2015 | #5,458 | 24 |
| 2014 | #5,456 | 24 |
| 2013 | #5,013 | 27 |
| 2012 | #4,387 | 33 |
| 2011 | #5,543 | 24 |
| 2010 | #4,023 | 37 |
| 2009 | #4,931 | 29 |
| 2008 | #3,859 | 41 |
| 2007 | #4,567 | 32 |
| 2006 | #3,734 | 41 |
| 2005 | #3,509 | 42 |
| 2004 | #3,631 | 40 |
| 2003 | #2,885 | 53 |
| 2002 | #2,379 | 67 |
| 2001 | #2,438 | 64 |
| 2000 | #2,545 | 59 |
| 1999 | #1,975 | 79 |
| 1998 | #1,636 | 99 |
| 1997 | #1,749 | 87 |
| 1996 | #1,702 | 89 |
| 1995 | #2,189 | 61 |
| 1994 | #1,714 | 86 |
| 1993 | #2,289 | 56 |
| 1992 | #2,351 | 55 |
| 1991 | #2,420 | 52 |
| 1990 | #2,201 | 58 |
| 1989 | #3,104 | 34 |
| 1988 | #1,952 | 62 |
| 1987 | #2,852 | 34 |
| 1986 | #2,779 | 34 |
| 1985 | #1,882 | 59 |
| 1984 | #2,992 | 29 |
| 1983 | #3,949 | 19 |
| 1982 | #3,780 | 21 |
| 1981 | #3,436 | 24 |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 |
| 1978 | #4,079 | 17 |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 |
| 1976 | #2,932 | 25 |
| 1975 | #3,404 | 20 |
| 1974 | #3,313 | 20 |
| 1973 | #4,586 | 12 |
| 1972 | #4,091 | 14 |
| 1971 | #3,652 | 17 |
| 1970 | #4,492 | 12 |
| 1969 | #7,471 | 5 |
| 1968 | #3,789 | 13 |
| 1967 | #4,300 | 10 |
| 1966 | #4,198 | 10 |
| 1965 | #3,733 | 12 |
| 1964 | #3,879 | 12 |
| 1963 | #5,891 | 6 |
| 1962 | #4,533 | 9 |
| 1961 | #4,546 | 9 |
| 1960 | #4,773 | 8 |
| 1959 | — | |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 |
| 1957 | #5,377 | 6 |
| 1956 | #4,161 | 9 |
| 1955 | #3,377 | 12 |
| 1954 | #5,148 | 6 |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 |
| 1952 | #4,483 | 7 |
| 1951 | #4,385 | 7 |
| 1950 | #5,301 | 5 |
| 1949 | #3,892 | 8 |
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| 1946 | #3,665 | 8 |
| 1945 | #3,132 | 9 |
| 1944 | #4,574 | 5 |
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| 1942 | #2,986 | 10 |
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| 1930 | #4,550 | 5 |
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| 1916 | #4,417 | 5 |
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| 1911 | #2,463 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Michela! It came in at #2,463, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1911–1941, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Michela is popular in 1998
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- Massachusetts#546 · 1 in 3,988
- New York#983 · 1 in 7,748
- Pennsylvania#1,021 · 1 in 9,716
- Illinois#1,488 · 1 in 14,083
- California#1,721 · 1 in 18,418
Best ever in a state: #342 in Massachusetts, 1994.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Massachusetts | #546 | 8 | 1 in 3,988 |
| New York | #983 | 13 | 1 in 7,748 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,021 | 6 | 1 in 9,716 |
| Illinois | #1,488 | 5 | 1 in 14,083 |
| California | #1,721 | 12 | 1 in 18,418 |
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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 Michela
- 3,985 spots since 2024 (#6,932 → #10,917)
- 4,834 spots since 2020 (#6,083 → #10,917)
- 5,459 spots since 2015 (#5,458 → #10,917)
- Debuted 1911
- Peaked 1998 at #1,636 (99 births)
- Births halved by 2004, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,848 girls born in 1998 were named Michela (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 200,908 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- 32.6% of all girls named Michela (722) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 10 | #2,463 (1911) | #3,440 |
| 1920s | 0 | — | — |
| 1930s | 5 | #4,550 (1930) | #4,550 |
| 1940s | 40 | #2,986 (1942) | #3,650 |
| 1950s | 67 | #3,377 (1955) | #4,648 |
| 1960s | 94 | #3,733 (1965) | #4,711 |
| 1970s | 164 | #2,932 (1976) | #4,040 |
| 1980s | 333 | #1,882 (1985) | #3,105 |
| 1990s | 722 | #1,636 (1998) | #2,023 |
| 2000s | 468 | #2,379 (2002) | #3,448 |
| 2010s | 225 | #4,023 (2010) | #6,149 |
| 2020s | 89 | #6,083 (2020) | #7,636 |
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.
Michela in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 17,848 of them was named Michela, which outranked 90.1% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,620Teanna100
- #1,620Tristin100
- #1,620Yoselin100
- #1,636Michela99
- #1,636Adreanna99
- #1,636Amirah99
- #1,636Corey99
- #1,646Annalee98
- #1,646Clarisa98
- #1,646Cyan98
Tied with 9 names at #1,636; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.