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Mechelle

Girls' name · Late 20th-century

Living in the US
~4,100 survival-weighted estimate
2025 rank
Unranked no births recorded
Births in 2025
0 4,386 since 1880
Typical age
54 years, median

Mechelle popularity over time

Mechelle rank by birth year, 1947–2021Mechelle ranked #4,345 in 1947 and #15,251 in 2021. Its best rank in the period was #563, in 1968.#1,000#10,000#15,251best #563 in 19681960198020002020
Rank among US baby names by birth year, 1947–2021. Lower is more popular; the scale is logarithmic so the top of the chart is not compressed.

1968 is the peak year for Mechelle, with 287 births. The name does not appear in the data until 1947. It reaches the top 1,000 in 10 years of the record.

The name last cleared the reporting threshold in 2021.

Babies named Mechelle per yearPeaks at 287 births in 1968.287 in 196801960198020002020
Recorded US births by year. The peak is labelled; the axis starts at zero.

How many people are named Mechelle?

About 4,100 people named Mechelle are alive in the United States today. SSA has recorded 4,386 births under the name since 1880.

This is a survival-weighted estimate, not a headcount: every recorded birth year is multiplied by the chance someone born that year is still alive, using the SSA period life table. How the estimate works.

How old is the average Mechelle?

The typical living Mechelle is 54 years old. More of them were born in the 1960s than in any other decade. By the site’s era rules that makes Mechelle a late 20th-century name.

Your Mechelle

Ages of living people named MechelleHalf of living Mechelles are older than 54 and half younger.median 540204060
Estimated living bearers by age today. Each bar is a birth year, weighted by the chance someone born then is still alive.

Names similar to Mechelle

Matched by sound and spelling inside this dataset, then ordered by total recorded births. This is not a claim about shared etymology.

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