Mechelle
Mechelle is absent from the 2024 data, which means fewer than five births. Its best rank was 563rd, in 1968.
- Rank in 2024
- —fewer than 5 births
- Births in 2024
- 0not in the data
- Peak year
- 1968287 births
- Best rank
- #563in 1968
- Since 1947
- 4,386people given the name
The story in the numbers
4,386 girls have been named Mechelle in the United States since 1947, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1968, with 287 births.
The name has all but left use: none recorded in 2024, against 287 at the peak.
Half of everyone given the name was born by 1971, and the 1960s alone account for 37%. It has spent 10 of 145 years in the top 1,000.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1968, its biggest year
Mechelle was the 563rd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1968 were Lisa, Michelle, Kimberly, Jennifer and Melissa. See all of 1968.
Names that rose and fell with Mechelle
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Kimberelypeak 1970
- Lavettepeak 1967
- Tracipeak 1970
- Traceypeak 1970
- Sonyapeak 1967
- Tracypeak 1970
- Tonjapeak 1967
- Keciapeak 1965
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.