Miguel

given name · Latin script

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

Miguel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country, where it is the 61st most common given name. In English, recorded as Spanish form of Michael; "who is like God?".

rarermore common
  • PTPortugal≈1 in 109(inferred from the name graph)
  • ARArgentina≈1 in 126
  • DODominican Republic≈1 in 133

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)

715,241 people, 2022

#107 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
544 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 109 (inferred from the name graph)

Portugal, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MiguelLatin(measured from records)
ΜιγκέλGreek(measured from records)

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)

Spanish form of Michael; Heb. 'Who is like God?'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

How Miguel is read(measured from records)

Miguel is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 3 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Spanish72%

    Hebreo mi-ka-El: '¿quién como Dios?'; nombre del arcángel Miguel

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

  • English9.7%

    Spanish form of Michael; "who is like God?"

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Portuguese8.4%

    a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Michael

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

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Miguel 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 Miguel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
BR Brazil#61715,2411 in 296715KMiguel237
AR Argentina#18≈360,000 est.≈1 in 1269.5KMiguel195
US United States#358296,0011 in 1.1K295KMiguel544
ES Spain#12230,7341 in 217238KMiguel329
PE Peru#17≈210,000 est.≈1 in 153191KMiguel176
PT Portugal#10≈94,000 est.≈1 in 109839Miguel246
DO Dominican Republic#6≈79,000 est.≈1 in 13315KMiguel121
SV El Salvador#29≈48,000 est.≈1 in 135—Miguel108

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: RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); RENIEC — DNI population names; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); JCE — Nombres más registrados (annual); IRN — Nomes próprios mais frequentes (2017–2023). 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)

Miguel is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name66 spellings in the group

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

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

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

  • French given name40 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Spain, Belgium

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Miguël, Migüel, Mïgüël, Miguèl, Miguél

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Míguel, Miguél, Migúel, Miguèl, Miguël

  • Lao given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Spain, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written มิเกล, Mïgüël, Migüel, M̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶, Migúel

  • Russian given name41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Spain, Ukraine

    Languages: Russian, Polish, Ukrainian

    Also written Мигель, Мігель, Miquel, Мигел, Migel

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Spain, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Miguél, Míguel

102 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)

Miguel is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Spanish form of Michael; Heb. 'Who is like God?'.

    as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

  • from the personal name Miguel, equivalent to Michael.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • Quem é como Deus?; Ciudad de Mexico, Ferrara

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

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)

500100015002000Michael II, b. 770Michael III, b. 840Miguel Servet, b. 1511Don Miguel, b. 1802Carlos I of Portugal, b. 1863Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, b. 1870Manuel II of Portugal, b. 1889Michel Temer, b. 1940Sebastián Piñera, b. 1949Miguel Díaz-Canel, b. 1960
  • Michael IIb. 770TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
  • Michael IIIb. 840TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor from 842 to 867
  • Miguel Servetb. 1511ESSpanish physician and theologian
  • Don Miguelb. 1802PTKing of Portugal from 1828 to 1834
  • Carlos I of Portugalb. 1863PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
  • Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbanejab. 1870ESSpanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
  • Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
  • Michel Temerb. 1940BRnot in their usual name24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019
  • Sebastián Piñerab. 1949CLnot in their usual nameChilean entrepreneur and politician (1949–2024)
  • Miguel Díaz-Canelb. 1960CUFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021

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 129 sources across 66 countries.

Official registers attesting Miguel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022715K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—709K#18
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020295K#173
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—241K#215
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—238K#15
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—231K#26
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019191K#8
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020157K—
DO Dominican RepublicJCE — Nombres más registrados (annual)202515K#32
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—5.9K#18
DO Dominican RepublicDominican Republic — Nombres más comunes registrados 2022-202320232K#5
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)20251.7K—

Reference works 9

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
  • Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)

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

Where does the name Miguel come from?
Spanish form of Michael; Heb. 'Who is like God?'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
What are other forms of the name Miguel?
In the etymology graph, Michael, Mike and Michel are forms of the same name in other languages.
Is Miguel a male or female name?
Miguel 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 Miguel have the most bearers?
In Brazil, the national register counted about 715 thousand people named Miguel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miguel.
What does the name Miguel mean?
In English, Spanish form of Michael; "who is like God?"
How common is the name Miguel?
In Brazil, the national register counted 715,241 people named Miguel in 2022, about 1 in 296 residents.
How common is Miguel compared with other names?
In Brazil, Miguel is the 61st 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, “Miguel” — the 61st most common given name in Brazil. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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