Michele

girls:

223.2k births since 1915

#178 (97th percentile)

boys:

2.8k births since 1905

#2401 (48th percentile)

overall:

226k births since 1905

#353 (95th percentile)

Popularity Trends

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

1905 2023 19052023

Key Statistics

Total Births
223,230
Peak Births
11,218
Peak Year
1968
First Recorded
1915
Peak Percentile
96.2%
Current Percentile
2.0%
Peak Rank
#29
Current Rank
#928
Female statistics
Total Births
2,760
Peak Births
85
Peak Year
1969
First Recorded
1905
Peak Percentile
12.1%
Current Percentile
0.4%
Peak Rank
#247
Current Rank
#907
Male statistics

How to Pronounce Michele

Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Michele. Click the play button next to the name to hear the pronunciation spoken aloud.

Our model is 64.4% confident that Michele is pronounced as mih-SHEHL. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KEHL, at 24.4% confidence.

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mai-KEHL (2 syllables)
11.1% confidence
M AY0 K EH1 L

Possible Additional Pronunciations

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

mih-CHEHL (2 syllables)
3 names 8.3k births
M IH0 CH EH1 L
mih-CHEE-uhl (3 syllables)
3 names 2.2k births
M IH0 CH IY1 AH0 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.