Michël

given name · Latin script

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Michël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In the Dominican Republic it is the 84th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and their source Latin Michaēl, Michahēl, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”).

rarermore common
  • BRBrazil1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 17K
  • ESSpain1 in 28K

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.

Brazil (measured from records)

78,654 people, 2022

Sources
250 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)

Brazil

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 Michel in BR Brazil, US United States, ES Spain 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)

Derivation of Michël: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Michël
  1. Old FrenchMichel(measured from records)
  2. Biblical Hebrewמִיכָאֵלmîḵāʾēl“who is like God?”(measured from records)

From Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and their source Latin Michaēl, Michahēl, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”).

Sources 9

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Wiktionary
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Michël 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 Michël is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#34978,6541 in 2.7K79KMichel212
US United States—19,5391 in 17K26KMichel250
SE Sweden—3,0551 in 3.3K3.1K—21
ES Spain#6791,7721 in 28K1.8KMichel116
EC Ecuador—8921 in 19K892—35
DK Denmark—6121 in 9.6K612——
CR Costa Rica—4941 in 10K494—40
DO Dominican Republic#84≈1 est.≈1 in 9.6M—Michel48

78,654 people counted by IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror), 2022. 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: IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names. 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)

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

  • French given name33 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Canada, United States, Belgium

    Languages: French, Arabic, Chinese

    Also written Michel, Michèl, Michél, Míchel, Mîchel

  • English given name48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Netherlands, Canada

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Michel, Michél, Michèl, Miche'L, Míchel

  • Croatian given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, United States, Bulgaria, Italy

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Michele, Michel, Mishel, Мишел, Mikele

2 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Michël under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

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

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Michël mean, and where does it come from?
From Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and their source Latin Michaēl, Michahēl, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
Is Michël a male or female name?
Michël is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
In which country does Michël have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Michël, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michel.
Where is Michël most common?
Michël is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Michël?
In Brazil, the national register counted 78,654 people named Michël in 2022, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
How common is Michël compared with other names?
In Brazil, Michël is the 349th most common given name of 474,894 given names recorded there.

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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, “Michël” — the 349th most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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