Miguël

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Miguël is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. In Andorra it is the 36th most common given name. Recorded meaning: From Spanish Miguel, from Latin Michāēlem, accusative of Michāēl, from Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikha'él, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).

rarermore common
  • ESSpain1 in 217(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 1.1K
  • ECEcuador1 in 156

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Brazil (measured from records)

715,241 people, 2022

Sources
330 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 156 (inferred from the name graph)

Ecuador

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 Miguel in US United States, ES Spain, AD Andorra.

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 Miguël: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Miguël
  1. SpanishMiguel(measured from records)
  2. LatinMichāēlem(measured from records)
  3. Ancient GreekΜῐχᾱήλMikhāḗl(measured from records)

From Spanish Miguel, from Latin Michāēlem, accusative of Michāēl, from Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikha'él, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).

Sources 7

  • A concise dictionary of first names
  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Wiktionary
  • Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
  • Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Miguël 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 Miguël is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil—715,2411 in 296715K—4
US United States—296,0011 in 1.1K295KMiguel179
ES Spain—230,7341 in 217238KMiguel111
EC Ecuador—108,0541 in 156108K—16
CR Costa Rica—15,1821 in 33615K——
AD Andorra#36———Miguel43

715,241 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); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); INEC — civil registry names; 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)

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

  • Spanish given name106 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Argentina, Mexico, United States, Spain

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Arabic

    Also written Miguel, Míguel, Miguél, Mïgüël, Migüel

  • English given name66 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Miguel, Míguel, Miguél, Miguel', Migüel

  • Lao given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Spain, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written Miguel, มิเกล, Mïgüël, Migüel, M̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶

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 Miguël 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 Miguël mean, and where does it come from?
From Spanish Miguel, from Latin Michāēlem, accusative of Michāēl, from Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mikhāḗl), from the Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mikha'él, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 5 other sources.
Is Miguël a male or female name?
Miguël 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 Miguël have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 715 thousand people named Miguël, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Miguël most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Miguël is densest in Ecuador — about 1 in 156 people — even though Brazil holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Miguël?
In Brazil, the national register counted 715,241 people named Miguël in 2022, about 1 in 296 residents.
How common is Miguël compared with other names?
In Andorra, Miguël is the 36th most common given name of 891 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, “Miguël” — the 36th most common given name in Andorra. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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