How to write “Michelle or Michele” in Korean

미셸 mi-syel Listen to 미셸, AI voice Print a free worksheet (PDF)

Also written: 미쉘

What Korean friends call you

• 미셸아 mi-sye-ra — a friend calling out to you (never to someone older)
• 미셸 씨 mi-syel-ssi — polite: someone you just met, or at work

Calling someone, Koreans add 아 after a final consonant and 야 after a vowel.

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Korean spellings of Michelle

Korean news (Daum, October 2026) writes Michelle Obama 미셸 (sometimes 미쉘); Michelle Pfeiffer 미셸 (sometimes 미쉘); Michelle Williams 미셸 (sometimes 미쉘).

Well-known people named Michelle or Michele, as Wikidata writes them in Korean (November 2026):

• Michelle Trachtenberg — 미셸 트랙턴버그
• Michele Bachmann — 미셸 바크먼

766,743 babies were named Michelle in the US from 1960 to 2025, the 38th most common name.

Block by block

• 미 = ㅁ + ㅣ · 4 strokes
  • ㅁ 미음 (m) · 3 strokes
  • ㅣ 이 (i) · 1 stroke

  Also in 미: Mia 미아 · Dominic 도미닉 · Miguel 미겔

• 셸 = ㅅ + ㅖ + ㄹ · 9 strokes
  • ㅅ 시옷 (s) · 2 strokes
  • ㅖ 예 (ye) · 4 strokes
  • ㄹ 리을 (r / l) · 3 strokes

  Also in 셸: Shelby 셸비 · Shelly 셸리 · Rachelle 라셸

미셸 takes 13 strokes in all.

More names: Caroline 캐롤라인 · Diego 디에고 · Amelia 아멜리아 · Vanessa 바네사 · Carson 카슨

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