Michela
Michela is a girl's name that peaked in 1998, when it was the 1,636th most popular in the United States. In 2025 it ranked 10,917th. About 2,100 Michelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 29.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Michela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 2,217
- Estimated living today
- 2,100
- Median age today
- 29
- Peak year
- 1998
- Best rank
- 1,636th
- Rank in 2025
- 10,917th
- First recorded
- 1911
How old the living Michelas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 2,217 babies given the name since 1911, about 2,100 are alive — 96 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1996 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Michelas
- Michela Pace (born 2001)Maltese singer
- Michela Figini (born 1966)Swiss alpine skier
- Michela Moioli (born 1995)Italian snowboarder
- Michela Murgia (1972–2023)Italian writer
- Michela Cerruti (born 1987)Italian racing driver
- Michela Ponza (born 1979)Italian biathlete
- Michela Quattrociocche (born 1988)Italian actress
- Michela Marzano (born 1970)Italian philosopher, university teacher, politician, and writer
People named Michela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Michela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Michela is most concentrated in Massachusetts (8.1×), New York (4.1×), California (2.9×), New Jersey (1.5×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1998
The most popular girls’ names the year Michela peaked:
Michela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Italy girls | Michela | 21,018 | — |
| France girls | Michela | 145 | 7,064th |
| Italy boys | Michela | 106 | — |
| England and Wales girls | Michela | 97 | 1,480th |
| Poland girls | Michela | 37 birth registrations | 294th |
| Ireland girls | Michela | 13 | 411th |
| Scotland girls | Michela | 10 | 465th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Michela: rank by region
In 2018, Michela was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Italy.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Valle d'Aosta/Vallée d'Aoste | Michela | 10 | 1 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Italy after 10 names – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Michela among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Michela | 19 | 31 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Michela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 450 women called Michela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Santa Cruz de Tenerife | Michela | 66 | 0.119 | 807 |
| Palmas, Las | Michela | 59 | 0.100 | 989 |
| Balears, Illes | Michela | 27 | 0.043 | 1,437 |
| Barcelona | Michela | 109 | 0.036 | 1,488 |
| Málaga | Michela | 25 | 0.027 | 1,738 |
| Valencia/València | Michela | 25 | 0.018 | 2,279 |
Listed in 14 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 38 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Michela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.