Michele
Michele is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 35 births. Its best rank was 29th, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —outside the top 1,000
- Births in 2024
- 350.00% of girls
- Peak year
- 196811,219 births
- Best rank
- #29in 1968
- Since 1915
- 226,031people given the name
The story in the numbers
223,268 girls have been named Michele in the United States since 1915, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 11,219 births — 0.68% of all girls recorded that year.
The name has all but left use: 35 births in 2024, against 11,219 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1967, and the 1960s alone account for 39%. It has spent 64 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 25 of them in the top 100.
It is overwhelmingly a girl’s name: 2,763 boys have also been given it, 1.2% of the total.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
| Decade | girls named Michele | |
|---|---|---|
| 1910s | 39 | |
| 1920s | 122 | |
| 1930s | 317 | |
| 1940s | 11,606 | |
| 1950s | 41,973 | |
| 1960s | 86,992 | |
| 1970s | 56,558 | |
| 1980s | 17,263 | |
| 1990s | 6,014 | |
| 2000s | 1,716 | |
| 2010s | 519 | |
| 2020s | 149 |
In 1968, its biggest year
Michele was the 29th most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Michele
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Carlettepeak 1966
- Dannettepeak 1965
- Wendypeak 1967
- Dawnpeak 1970
- Tonettepeak 1967
- Wendepeak 1967
- Trenapeak 1971
- Sheripeak 1963
Other spellings in the data
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.