Miguélez

surname · Latin script

Miguélez is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From the medieval form Miguelles, from local Medieval Latin Miguelez, from Miguel (“Michael”) + the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Michael".

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 12K(measured from records)
  • ARArgentina1 in 57K
  • UYUruguay1 in 29K

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.

Spain (measured from records)

4,306 people

Sources
113 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 12K (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 Miguelez in ES Spain, AR Argentina, US United States and 4 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)

From the medieval form Miguelles, from local Medieval Latin Miguelez, from Miguel (“Michael”) + the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Michael".

Sources 1

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Miguélez 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 Miguélez is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
ES Spain4,3061 in 12K4.3KMiguelez113
AR Argentina7941 in 57K794Miguelez55
US United States1571 in 2.1M158Miguelez94
UY Uruguay1181 in 29K118Miguelez7
FR France≈72 est.≈1 in 947K14Miguelez69
VE Venezuela≈57 est.≈1 in 499K—Miguelez8
BE Belgium≈18 est.≈1 in 643K—Miguelez6

4,306 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). 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: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public). 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)

Miguélez is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Miguelez, Miguėlez, Míguelez

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Miguelez, Migúelez

  • Hindi surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Miguelez, Migueléz

  • Russian surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain

    Also written Miguelez

  • Arabic surname2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States

    Also written Miguelez

13 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.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Miguélez is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In Galician, a surname originating as a patronymic

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

18001850190019502000Juan Francisco Miguélez Blanco, b. 1833Antonio Varela Miguélez, b. 1911Crescencio Miguélez Baños, b. 1940Rosa Miguélez, b. 1953María Visitación Miguélez Castrillo, b. 1965Carolina Casado, b. 1974David Rubín, b. 1977Helena Miguélez Carballeira, b. 1978Javier Camino Miguélez, b. 1982

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 1 sources across 0 countries.

Reference works 1

  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

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 Miguélez mean, and where does it come from?
From the medieval form Miguelles, from local Medieval Latin Miguelez, from Miguel (“Michael”) + the patronymic suffix -ez. Originally meaning "son/daughter of Michael". Recorded by Wiktionary.
In which country does Miguélez have the most bearers?
In Spain, the national register counted about 4.3 thousand people named Miguélez, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miguelez.
Where is Miguélez most common?
Miguélez is densest in Spain, where the national register counts about 1 in 12 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Miguélez?
In Spain, the national register counted 4,306 people named Miguélez, about 1 in 12 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, “Miguélez”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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