Michán

surname · Latin script

Michán is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: St Michan was a Dublin monk. His name was given to St Michan’s Church in the city.

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 526K(measured from records)
  • DKDenmark1 in 587K
  • ARArgentina1 in 615K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (inferred from the name graph)

≈97 people, est.

Sources
54 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 526K (inferred from the name graph)

Spain

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michan in AR Argentina, ES Spain, US United States and 1 more.

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)

St Michan was a Dublin monk. His name was given to St Michan’s Church in the city.

Sources 1

  • Irish first names

Where in the world(measured from records)

Michán 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.

Where Michán is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States≈97 est.≈1 in 3.4MlistedMichan39
ES Spain951 in 526K95Michan27
AR Argentina741 in 615K74Michan28
PE Peru≈13 est.≈1 in 2.5M—Michan17
DK Denmark101 in 587K10——
CH Switzerland41 in 2.1M4—1
GY Guyana11 in 750K1——

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames); Guyana — Official List of Electors July 2025. 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).

Other names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Michán is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Michan

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Michan

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Michan

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Michán mean, and where does it come from?
St Michan was a Dublin monk. His name was given to St Michan’s Church in the city. Recorded by Irish first names.
In which country does Michán have the most bearers?
Mondonomo estimates about 97 people named Michán in the United States, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michan.
Where is Michán most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michán is densest in Spain — about 1 in 526 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Michán?
In Spain, the national register counted 95 people named Michán, about 1 in 526 thousand residents.

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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, “Michán”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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