girls:
3.2k births since 1946
#3075 (46th percentile)
overall:
3.2k births since 1946
#4828 (38th percentile)
The name Machelle is the #4,828 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 3,178 recorded births since 1946. This represents the 37.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 37.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #3,075 (46.2% percentile) for all time with 3,178 births since 1946.
Machelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1946 (first recorded for girls in 1946). Birth data for Machelle is available in 60 out of the 70 years between 1946 and 2015. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Machelle reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 22.4% percentile (ranked #580) with 104 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 104 births per million (ranked 22.4% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2015.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Machelle".
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Our model is 100.0% confident that Machelle is pronounced as muh-SHEHL, which has 2 syllables.
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