girls:
4.4k births since 1947
#2584 (55th percentile)
overall:
4.4k births since 1947
#4131 (47th percentile)
The name Mechelle is the #4,131 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 4,386 recorded births since 1947. This represents the 46.6% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 46.6% of all names). For girls, it ranks #2,584 (54.8% percentile) for all time with 4,386 births since 1947.
Mechelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1947 (first recorded for girls in 1947). Birth data for Mechelle is available in 69 out of the 75 years between 1947 and 2021. 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, Mechelle reached its peak popularity in 1968, achieving the 35.0% percentile (ranked #486) with 168 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 168 births per million (ranked 35.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2021.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mechelle".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Mechelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.9% confident that Mechelle is pronounced as mih-SHEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-SHEHL, at 14.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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