The MICHEL surname in the USA

Frequency Comparisons
	Total	Rank	Frequency %	Per million people
United States
United States (Current snapshot)	21,487	1539	0.008	80
United States (1880 census)	69	40349	0	1
Change since 1880	+21418	+38810	+N/A	+79
Other Countries
Australia	513	3136	0.003	31
United Kingdom	0			0

Top States for MICHEL by Total
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
California	3,293	1032	0.010	97
Florida	2,445	850	0.015	153
New York	2,007	899	0.011	106
Louisiana	1,153	579	0.026	258
Ohio	1,065	1318	0.009	94
Top States for MICHEL by Frequency
State	Total	Rank in State	Frequency %	Per million people
Louisiana	1,153	579	0.026	258
Florida	2,445	850	0.015	153
North Dakota	76	1211	0.012	118
Iowa	342	1024	0.012	117
Massachusetts	692	1364	0.011	109

Notes

Total is the total number of people with that surname.
Rank is the position in the list of names ordered by total (eg, a rank of 1 means that it's the most common name, and a rank of 10 means it's the tenth most common, etc).
Frequency is the percentage of people with that surname.
Per million people is the number of people with that surname per million of the population.

'A figure of zero indicates that we don't have data for this name (usually because it's quite uncommon and our stats don't go down that far). It doesn't mean that there's no-one with that name at all!

For less common surnames, the figures get progressively less reliable the fewer holders of that name there are. This data is aggregated from several public lists, and some stats are interpolated from known values. The margin of error is well over 100% at the rarest end of the table!

For less common surnames, the frequency and "per million" values may be 0 even though there are people with that name. That's because they represent less than one in a million of the population, which ends up as 0 after rounding.

It's possible for a surname to gain in rank and/or total while being less common per million people (or vice versa) as there are now more surnames in the USA as a result of immigration. In mathematical terms, the tail has got longer, with a far larger number of less common surnames.

Figures for top states show firstly the states where most people called MICHEL live. This obviously tends to be biased towards the most populous states. The second set of figures show where people called MICHEL represent the biggest proportion of the population. So, in this case, there are more people called MICHEL in California than any other state, but you are more likely to find a MICHEL by picking someone at random in Louisiana than anywhere else.

Classification and Origin of MICHEL

Region of origin: British Isles

Country of origin: England

Language of origin: English

Ethnic origin: English

Religious origin: Christian

Name derivation: From given name or forename

Data for religion and/or language relates to the culture in which the MICHEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the language spoken, or religion practised, by the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Data for ethnic origin relates to the region and country in which the MICHEL surname originated. It does not necessarily have any correlation with the ethnicity of the majority of current American citizens with that name.

Ethnic distribution of MICHEL in the USA

Classification	Total	Percent
Mixed Race	559	2.6
Native American/Alaskan	155	0.72
Asian/Pacific	86	0.4
White (Caucasian)	12,649	58.87
White (Hispanic)	4,532	21.09
Black/African American	3,507	16.32

Ethnic distribution data shows the number and percentage of people with the MICHEL surname who reported their ethnic background as being in these broad categories in the most recent national census.

Similar names to MICHEL

The following names have similar spellings or pronunciations as MICHEL.

This does not necessarily imply a direct relationship between the names, but may indicate names that could be mistaken for this one when written down or misheard.