Michál
given name · Latin script
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries
Michál is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country. In Israel it is the 34th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Hebrew מִיכַל (mikhál, “Michal”).
- USUnited States1 in 32K(measured from records)
- ILIsrael≈1 in 255as מיכל
- CZCzechia1 in 43
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Michál itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Czechia (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 161 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
246,648 people
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Czechia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)Locally spelled מיכל in IL Israel, US United States.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)From Hebrew מִיכַל (mikhál, “Michal”).
Cited for this meaning 7
- A concise dictionary of first names
- DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wiktionary
- Biblical Names Compiled Database
Attested across 23 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Michál counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
246,648 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: CBS Israel — Names given to babies (1949–present); MVČR — living population register 2017; SSB PxWebApi — Persons/Last names by year (StatBank tables 10501/12891); SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Evidence
(measured from records)2 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 2 | #26,295 |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Michál mean, and where does it come from?
- From Hebrew מִיכַל (mikhál, “Michal”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and DUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen and 5 other sources.
- In which country does Michál have the most bearers?
- In Czechia, the national register counted about 247 thousand people named Michál, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Michál most common?
- Michál is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 43 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Michál?
- In Czechia, the national register counted 246,648 people named Michál, about 1 in 43 residents.
- How common is Michál compared with other names?
- In Israel, Michál is the 34th most common given name of 107,303 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mich%C3%A1lThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Michál” — the 34th most common given name in Israel. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.