Michelle Forename
232nd
Most Common
name in the World
Approximately 2,413,415 people bear this name
Most prevalent in:
United States
Highest density in:
Guernsey
Michelle Forename User-submission:
The female variant of Michael, which means 'gift from God' or 'who is like God'.
Michelle Forename Distribution
| Place | Gender | Incidence | Frequency | Rank in Area |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States | 100% | 1,249,563 | 1:290 | 33 |
| Philippines | 99% | 261,145 | 1:406 | 42 |
| England | 100% | 193,791 | 1:287 | 53 |
| Canada | 100% | 111,907 | 1:296 | 28 |
| Brazil | 66% | 95,645 | 1:2,240 | 343 |
| Australia | - | 69,702 | 1:196 | 21 |
| South Africa | 100% | 60,650 | 1:899 | 86 |
| France | 100% | 59,041 | 1:1,126 | 199 |
| Kenya | - | 18,859 | 1:2,455 | 452 |
| Netherlands | 60% | 17,290 | 1:978 | 212 |
| New Zealand | - | 17,229 | 1:263 | 30 |
| Ireland | 100% | 15,280 | 1:304 | 55 |
| Scotland | 100% | 15,235 | 1:351 | 85 |
| Congo | 100% | 10,984 | 1:456 | 66 |
| Mexico | 91% | 10,909 | 1:11,380 | 929 |
| Madagascar | 100% | 10,883 | 1:2,171 | 526 |
| Wales | 100% | 9,839 | 1:314 | 66 |
| Belgium | 96% | 7,339 | 1:1,566 | 360 |
| Mozambique | - | 7,200 | 1:3,784 | 759 |
| Jamaica | - | 7,045 | 1:409 | 74 |
| Northern Ireland | 100% | 6,289 | 1:293 | 61 |
| Malaysia | 99% | 6,166 | 1:4,938 | 563 |
| Denmark | - | 6,048 | 1:934 | 200 |
| Ghana | 100% | 5,787 | 1:4,663 | 601 |
| Chile | 99% | 5,621 | 1:3,132 | 390 |
| Cameroon | 78% | 5,393 | 1:4,007 | 675 |
| Dominican Republic | - | 5,387 | 1:1,936 | 305 |
| Thailand | 100% | 5,368 | 1:13,052 | 1,997 |
| Sri Lanka | - | 5,294 | 1:3,929 | 667 |
| Ecuador | - | 5,173 | 1:3,427 | 460 |
| Trinidad and Tobago | 100% | 4,667 | 1:292 | 11 |
| Saudi Arabia | - | 4,663 | 1:6,608 | 1,021 |
| Gabon | 100% | 4,290 | 1:439 | 61 |
| China | - | 4,199 | 1:325,329 | 21,581 |
| Germany | 93% | 3,735 | 1:25,884 | 1,041 |
| Venezuela | 100% | 3,549 | 1:8,510 | 958 |
| Indonesia | 100% | 3,457 | 1:74,621 | 8,843 |
| Rwanda | 100% | 3,142 | 1:3,619 | 702 |
| Spain | 100% | 3,099 | 1:15,015 | 988 |
| Switzerland | 98% | 2,878 | 1:2,854 | 496 |
| Panama | 78% | 2,703 | 1:1,445 | 283 |
| Singapore | 100% | 2,641 | 1:2,381 | 335 |
| Namibia | - | 2,490 | 1:966 | 199 |
| Sweden | 99% | 2,448 | 1:4,027 | 493 |
| United Arab Emirates | - | 2,325 | 1:3,076 | 361 |
| Qatar | 100% | 2,063 | 1:1,149 | 86 |
| Guyana | 100% | 2,054 | 1:372 | 12 |
| Malawi | 100% | 1,988 | 1:8,608 | 1,011 |
| Sudan | 100% | 1,983 | 1:19,066 | 1,940 |
| Puerto Rico | - | 1,970 | 1:1,802 | 233 |
| India | 100% | 1,797 | 1:676,059 | 49,762 |
| Costa Rica | 99% | 1,768 | 1:2,697 | 441 |
| Nigeria | 100% | 1,738 | 1:102,166 | 5,728 |
| Guatemala | 97% | 1,737 | 1:9,274 | 846 |
| Haiti | 100% | 1,736 | 1:6,179 | 807 |
| Hong Kong | - | 1,697 | 1:4,568 | 369 |
| Ivory Coast | 100% | 1,647 | 1:14,011 | 1,401 |
| Poland | 100% | 1,602 | 1:23,737 | 801 |
| Malta | - | 1,528 | 1:281 | 52 |
| Bahamas | - | 1,456 | 1:274 | 41 |
| Togo | - | 1,319 | 1:5,488 | 890 |
| Papua New Guinea | 99% | 1,290 | 1:6,320 | 661 |
| Taiwan | 89% | 1,276 | 1:18,628 | 3,468 |
| Portugal | - | 1,236 | 1:8,423 | 542 |
| Barbados | - | 1,133 | 1:256 | 38 |
| Fiji | - | 950 | 1:939 | 204 |
| Egypt | 67% | 889 | 1:103,376 | 4,708 |
| Bangladesh | - | 825 | 1:193,287 | 10,074 |
| Vanuatu | - | 822 | 1:318 | 58 |
| Zimbabwe | 100% | 805 | 1:19,160 | 2,116 |
| Norway | 94% | 781 | 1:6,571 | 705 |
| Botswana | 100% | 754 | 1:2,897 | 516 |
| DR Congo | 67% | 746 | 1:98,965 | 5,317 |
| Kuwait | - | 703 | 1:5,384 | 687 |
| Samoa | - | 685 | 1:285 | 60 |
| Austria | 78% | 681 | 1:12,502 | 697 |
| Suriname | 100% | 674 | 1:820 | 138 |
| Italy | 98% | 634 | 1:96,312 | 1,861 |
| Bahrain | - | 592 | 1:2,278 | 377 |
| Senegal | 99% | 562 | 1:25,945 | 1,390 |
| Czechia | 100% | 505 | 1:21,101 | 588 |
| Japan | - | 496 | 1:258,036 | 7,867 |
| Morocco | 100% | 491 | 1:69,956 | 2,597 |
| Honduras | 100% | 461 | 1:19,127 | 1,423 |
| Peru | 92% | 449 | 1:70,805 | 2,994 |
| Oman | - | 442 | 1:9,296 | 1,142 |
| Belize | 100% | 424 | 1:836 | 150 |
| South Korea | - | 424 | 1:13,076 | 1,479 |
| Benin | 100% | 399 | 1:26,506 | 2,581 |
| Guernsey | 100% | 380 | 1:167 | 23 |
| Guam | - | 370 | 1:434 | 68 |
| Bolivia | 100% | 362 | 1:29,286 | 1,653 |
| Nicaragua | 91% | 347 | 1:17,344 | 1,419 |
| Uganda | 94% | 285 | 1:143,708 | 5,708 |
| Swaziland | - | 282 | 1:4,611 | 838 |
| New Caledonia | 100% | 278 | 1:972 | 224 |
| Jersey | 100% | 264 | 1:379 | 85 |
| United States Virgin Islands | - | 237 | 1:463 | 61 |
| Grenada | 100% | 231 | 1:468 | 53 |
| Mali | 100% | 221 | 1:76,822 | 3,384 |
| Luxembourg | 100% | 205 | 1:2,751 | 386 |
| Bermuda | - | 195 | 1:332 | 40 |
| Saint Vincent and the Grenadines | 100% | 195 | 1:572 | 45 |
| Brunei | - | 190 | 1:2,208 | 222 |
| Afghanistan | 81% | 183 | 1:178,271 | 4,770 |
| Seychelles | 100% | 181 | 1:512 | 110 |
| Micronesia | - | 176 | 1:605 | 101 |
| Antigua and Barbuda | - | 163 | 1:610 | 75 |
| Cayman Islands | 100% | 163 | 1:376 | 38 |
| Saint Lucia | 99% | 161 | 1:1,104 | 174 |
| Zambia | - | 161 | 1:98,477 | 4,705 |
| El Salvador | - | 153 | 1:41,450 | 1,469 |
| Curaçao | 100% | 152 | 1:1,025 | 299 |
| Pakistan | 100% | 151 | 1:1,287,137 | 20,716 |
| Finland | 100% | 149 | 1:36,800 | 1,487 |
| Northern Mariana Islands | - | 148 | 1:369 | 53 |
| Russia | 78% | 147 | 1:981,182 | 8,505 |
| Colombia | 100% | 141 | 1:338,858 | 6,247 |
| Argentina | 100% | 122 | 1:350,600 | 3,157 |
| Slovenia | 100% | 110 | 1:22,352 | 1,363 |
| French Polynesia | - | 108 | 1:2,573 | 542 |
| Gibraltar | - | 108 | 1:316 | 60 |
| Saint Kitts and Nevis | 100% | 103 | 1:533 | 71 |
| Greece | 95% | 101 | 1:108,263 | 2,826 |
| Isle of Man | 100% | 101 | 1:842 | 134 |
| Liberia | 95% | 101 | 1:43,684 | 2,422 |
| Burkina Faso | 100% | 100 | 1:183,795 | 8,437 |
| Uruguay | 92% | 99 | 1:34,623 | 1,480 |
| Vietnam | 100% | 94 | 1:985,352 | 2,633 |
| Estonia | 100% | 80 | 1:16,442 | 1,528 |
| Turks and Caicos Islands | 100% | 80 | 1:434 | 55 |
| British Virgin Islands | 100% | 78 | 1:401 | 30 |
| Aruba | - | 67 | 1:1,549 | 313 |
| American Samoa | - | 66 | 1:846 | 81 |
| Albania | 97% | 58 | 1:52,527 | 4,703 |
| Mongolia | - | 55 | 1:53,360 | 4,341 |
| Macau | - | 52 | 1:11,696 | 284 |
| Solomon Islands | 100% | 50 | 1:11,619 | 1,105 |
| Myanmar | - | 49 | 1:1,060,169 | 627 |
| Paraguay | 96% | 46 | 1:157,322 | 2,973 |
| Monaco | 100% | 45 | 1:855 | 183 |
| Turkey | 100% | 43 | 1:1,809,342 | 13,506 |
| Croatia | 100% | 42 | 1:100,407 | 2,448 |
| Romania | 100% | 39 | 1:514,153 | 14,387 |
| Lebanon | 100% | 37 | 1:152,097 | 3,841 |
| Israel | 97% | 35 | 1:240,083 | 6,784 |
| Iraq | - | 34 | 1:1,029,937 | 8,327 |
| Moldova | - | 27 | 1:131,894 | 1,438 |
| Iceland | 100% | 26 | 1:14,078 | 1,129 |
| Ethiopia | - | 25 | 1:3,902,405 | 10,287 |
| Gambia | - | 25 | 1:77,064 | 396 |
| Tanzania | 100% | 24 | 1:2,199,513 | 22,190 |
| Cambodia | 100% | 21 | 1:774,920 | 13,633 |
| Hungary | 91% | 18 | 1:543,987 | 1,953 |
| Cook Islands | 100% | 17 | 1:1,068 | 174 |
| Nauru | 100% | 17 | 1:702 | 85 |
| Angola | - | 16 | 1:1,685,413 | 2,877 |
| Central African Republic | - | 16 | 1:282,212 | 391 |
| Kazakhstan | 70% | 15 | 1:1,183,123 | 11,783 |
| Anguilla | 100% | 13 | 1:1,020 | 161 |
| Niger | 100% | 13 | 1:1,475,692 | 20,181 |
| Montserrat | - | 12 | 1:406 | 30 |
| Guinea | - | 11 | 1:1,078,059 | 3,355 |
| Norfolk Island | - | 11 | 1:211 | 26 |
| Belarus | 100% | 9 | 1:1,053,598 | 5,565 |
| Laos | - | 9 | 1:731,873 | 503 |
| Lesotho | - | 9 | 1:226,666 | 15,149 |
| Sierra Leone | - | 9 | 1:787,629 | 675 |
| Slovakia | 100% | 9 | 1:590,007 | 2,547 |
| Tunisia | - | 9 | 1:75,211 | 3,284 |
| Marshall Islands | 100% | 8 | 1:6,404 | 961 |
| Saint Pierre and Miquelon | 100% | 7 | 1:902 | 214 |
| Ukraine | - | 7 | 1:6,499,987 | 10,516 |
| Nepal | - | 6 | 1:4,747,892 | 50,788 |
| Armenia | 75% | 5 | 1:583,751 | 6,330 |
| Bulgaria | - | 5 | 1:1,398,078 | 12,856 |
| Algeria | - | 4 | 1:9,544,180 | 14,095 |
| Comoros | - | 4 | 1:190,335 | 532 |
| Dominica | - | 4 | 1:18,868 | 592 |
| East Timor | - | 4 | 1:304,594 | 432 |
| Falkland Islands | - | 4 | 1:786 | 147 |
| Libya | - | 4 | 1:1,555,327 | 1,779 |
| Liechtenstein | - | 4 | 1:9,464 | 618 |
| Mauritius | - | 4 | 1:324,446 | 5,754 |
| Saint Martin | - | 4 | 1:8,936 | 133 |
| Tonga | - | 4 | 1:26,859 | 378 |
| Turkmenistan | 100% | 4 | 1:1,368,218 | 2,487 |
| Uzbekistan | - | 4 | 1:7,696,610 | 11,277 |
| Wallis and Futuna | - | 4 | 1:3,382 | 74 |
| Georgia | - | 3 | 1:1,246,155 | 15,822 |
| Cuba | - | 2 | 1:5,753,276 | 9,613 |
| Iran | - | 2 | 1:39,248,434 | 50,459 |
| Saint Helena, Ascension and Tristan da Cunha | - | 2 | 1:2,914 | 288 |
| Yemen | - | 2 | 1:13,148,376 | 10,677 |
| Andorra | - | 1 | 1:82,887 | 1,356 |
| Azerbaijan | 100% | 1 | 1:9,642,944 | 42,290 |
| Chad | - | 1 | 1:13,598,398 | 15,363 |
| Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:871,076 | 5,368 |
| Equatorial Guinea | - | 1 | 1:1,137,689 | 1,044 |
| Greenland | - | 1 | 1:56,371 | 1,395 |
| Jordan | - | 1 | 1:8,826,774 | 11,126 |
| Kyrgyzstan | - | 1 | 1:5,973,277 | 46,622 |
| Latvia | - | 1 | 1:2,015,645 | 6,531 |
| Lithuania | - | 1 | 1:2,951,882 | 5,377 |
| North Macedonia | - | 1 | 1:2,090,757 | 15,787 |
| Maldives | 100% | 1 | 1:433,903 | 5,827 |
| Montenegro | 100% | 1 | 1:634,576 | 4,914 |
| Northern Cyprus | 100% | 1 | 1:318,133 | 3,044 |
| Palau | - | 1 | 1:21,711 | 239 |
| Somalia | - | 1 | 1:13,525,867 | 7,760 |
| Syria | - | 1 | 1:19,306,075 | 9,560 |
| Transnistria | 100% | 1 | 1:475,638 | 2,115 |
| Tuvalu | - | 1 | 1:11,131 | 89 |
The alternate forms: Michélle (653), Michellé (369), Michèlle (213), Michêlle (1) & Michellë (1) are calculated separately.
Michelle (13,921) may also be a surname.
Michelle Forename Meaning
User-submitted Reference
The female variant of Michael, which means 'gift from God' or 'who is like God'.
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