Michiël
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 1 country
Michiël is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: forma reduzida de Michiele.
- NLNetherlands1 in 672(measured from records)
- CZCzechia1 in 43as Michal
- FIFinland1 in 52as Mikael
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 Michiël 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.
- United States (measured from records)
- #3 (measured from records)
- 10 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 726 (measured from records)
- 1 in 672 (inferred from the name graph)
3,476,721 named Michael, 2020
of 15M given names, spellings grouped
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Netherlands
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)8 other spellings are counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 3 more, Михаил in RU Russia, Михайло in UA Ukraine and Michal in CZ Czechia.
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)forma reduzida de Michiele
Cited for this meaning 2
- Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
- Wiktionary
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Michiël 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.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #2 | 3,476,721as Michael | 1 in 96 | 3.5M | Michael | 726 |
| RU Russia | #22 | ≈1,700,000 est. | ≈1 in 85 | register #8 | Михаил | 272 |
| GB United Kingdom | #3 | ≈950,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | 626 | Michael | 482 |
| DE Germany | #2 | ≈940,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | listed | Michael | 389 |
| PH Philippines | #6 | ≈850,000 est. | ≈1 in 137 | listed | Michael | 237 |
| UA Ukraine | #23 | ≈520,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | listed | Михайло | 131 |
| CZ Czechia | #3 | 246,648as Michal | 1 in 43 | 247K | Michal | 211 |
| FI Finland | #144 | 106,915as Mikael | 1 in 52 | 133K | Mikael | 112 |
| IE Ireland | #3 | ≈80,000 est. | ≈1 in 68 | — | Michael | 225 |
| NL Netherlands | #12 | 25,724 | 1 in 672 | 26K | Michael | 211 |
3,476,721 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018). 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)1 register or reference work attests this spelling, across 1 country.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Michiël mean, and where does it come from?
- forma reduzida de Michiele Recorded by Dicionário dos sobrenomes italianos and Wiktionary.
- Is Michiël a male or female name?
- Michiël 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.
- Which countries have the most people named Michiël?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 million people named Michael, more than in any other country we hold. After it come Russia, United Kingdom, Germany and Philippines; the country table on this page ranks them.
- Where is Michiël most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Michiël is densest in the Netherlands — about 1 in 672 people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Michiël?
- In the Netherlands, the national register counted 25,724 people named Michiël, about 1 in 672 residents.
- How common is Michiël compared with other names?
- In the United States, Michiël is the 2nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Michiël?
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/michi%C3%ABlThe 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, “Michiël” — the 2nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.