Michel

girls:

3.5k births since 1939

#2905 (49th percentile)

boys:

10.5k births since 1880

#1139 (75th percentile)

overall:

14k births since 1880

#2215 (71st percentile)

Popularity Trends

This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Michel".

1880 2023 18802023

Key Statistics

Total Births
3,531
Peak Births
89
Peak Year
1966
First Recorded
1939
Peak Percentile
11.4%
Current Percentile
0.6%
Peak Rank
#581
Current Rank
#941
Female statistics
Total Births
10,484
Peak Births
284
Peak Year
1957
First Recorded
1880
Peak Percentile
36.8%
Current Percentile
2.4%
Peak Rank
#198
Current Rank
#889
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Michel

Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Michel. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 69.4% confident that Michel is pronounced as mih-SHEHL. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KEHL, at 13.9% confidence.

mai-KEHL (2 syllables)
8.3% confidence
M AY0 K EH1 L
mih-SHUHL (2 syllables)
8.3% confidence
M IH0 SH AH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

These are pronunciations that other similar names use, but which are not currently associated with Michel. If you think any of these are valid pronunciations for Michel, please vote using the thumbs up button.

meh-SHEHL (2 syllables)
7 names 6.4k births
M EH0 SH EH1 L
mih-SHEEL (2 syllables)
8 names 1.5k births
M IH0 SH IY1 L

About Pronunciation Data

Our confidence scores estimate the likelihood that a particular pronunciation is the most correct for a given name spelling. These scores are derived from pronunciation dictionaries, manual verification, your feedback, and a fine-tuned large language model trained to generate name pronunciations.

For any given spelling, confidence scores across all identified pronunciations sum to 100%. However, these scores don't account for the possibility of valid pronunciations that our model hasn't identified.

The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH0 SH EH1 L) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.

Pronunciation audio is generated by an open source text to speech model that has been customized to adhere to pronunciations provided in ARPAbet format, but sometimes pronunciations that differ subtly will sound identical, particularly if the only difference is the level of emphasis on a syllable or a single vowel sound.