girls:
502 births since 1959
#5214 (9th percentile)
boys:
160 births since 1961
#4426 (3rd percentile)
overall:
662 births since 1959
#7077 (9th percentile)
The name Mitchelle is the #7,077 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 662 recorded births since 1959. This represents the 8.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 8.5% of all names). For girls, it ranks #5,214 (8.8% percentile) for all time with 502 births since 1959. For boys, it ranks #4,426 (3.4% percentile) for all time with 160 births since 1961.
Mitchelle first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1959 (1959 for girls and 1961 for boys). Birth data for Mitchelle is available in 52 out of the 56 years between 1959 and 2014 (51 years for girls and 19 years for boys). 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.
The name Mitchelle has been given predominantly to girls, with 75.8% of all recorded births being female. In 2014, 100.0% of babies named Mitchelle were girls.
For girls, Mitchelle reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 2.2% percentile (ranked #840) with 12 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 12 births per million (ranked 2.2% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2014.
For boys, Mitchelle reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 1.4% percentile (ranked #695) with 8 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 8 births per million (ranked 1.4% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2008.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mitchelle".
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Our model has identified 6 different pronunciations for the name Mitchelle. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 48.5% confident that Mitchelle is pronounced as mih-CHEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIH-chuhl, at 15.2% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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