Michelle is a girl's name of Hebrew and Biblical origin meaning “Who is like God?.” In 2024 it was given to 772 girls in the United States.
Michelle at a glance
Gender
Girl name
Origin
Biblical & Christian · French
Meaning
“Who is like God?”
Pronunciation
/mɪˈʃɛl/
Also spelled
Michèle
About the name Michelle
Michelle belongs to the Biblical & Christian and French tradition. Its meaning — “Who is like God?” — is the sense carried by its Hebrew and Biblical roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page. It travels in a few spellings: Michèle.
In the United States, Michelle first appears in Social Security records in 1915. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #2 in 1968, and in 2024 772 babies received the name — 815,849 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
Meaning and origin for this page were checked against this source. US popularity figures are from the Social Security Administration's public baby-names data. If you spot an error, write to [email protected] — accuracy is the whole point of this site, and corrections are made fast.
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