Michelle - Meaning of Michelle

What does Michelle mean?

[ 2 syll. mic-hel-le, mi-che-lle ] The baby boy name Michelle is also used as a girl name, with the latter form being much more common. Its pronunciation is Mih-SHEHL in English or Miy-SHEHL in French †. The origin of Michelle is the Hebrew language. Michelle is a variant of the name Michel (Czech, English, French, and German).

See also the related category hebrew.

Michelle is an uncommon baby name for boys. At the modest height of its usage in 1971, 0.008% of baby boys were given the name Michelle. It ranked at #678 then. The baby name has since experienced a fall in popularity, and is today of sporadic use. Within all boy names in its group, Michelle was nonetheless the most popular in 2018. In the past century Michelle has mostly been a girl name. In 1983, the name Michelle was given to 214 times as many girls than boys.

Baby names that sound like Michelle include Michel, Michele, MacCall, MacColl, Maccoll, MacElroy, Macelroy, Machael, Maciel, MacKile, MacKyle, Mackile, Mackswel, Mackswell, Mackswil, Mackswill, Mackwelle, Mackyle, MacNiall, and Macniall.

† Pronunciation for Michelle: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; IH as in "it (IH.T)" ; SH as in "she (SH.IY)" ; EH as in "ebb (EH.B)" ; L as in "lay (L.EY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)"



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