Micheal
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Micheal is a 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: Variant of Michael.
- CZCzechia1 in 43as Michal(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 52as Mikael
- IEIreland≈1 in 69as Michael
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 Micheal 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)
- Sources
- 726 (measured from records)
- 1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)
3,476,721 named Michael, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Czechia, as Michal
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 2 more, Михаил in RU Russia, Michal in CZ Czechia and Mikael in FI Finland.
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)
- Vulgate LatinMichaēl(inferred from the name graph)via Michael
- Biblical Hebrewמיכאלmikhael“who is like God?”(inferred from the name graph)via Michael
Steps marked ◐ come from the entry for the form named above them, not from this name's own sources.
Variant of Michael.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Micheal 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 | ≈1,600,000 est. | ≈1 in 89 | #8 | Михаил | 272 |
| DE Germany | #2 | ≈1,100,000 est. | ≈1 in 71 | listed | Michael | 389 |
| GB United Kingdom | #3 | ≈900,000 est. | ≈1 in 73 | 626 | Michael | 482 |
| NG Nigeria | #13 | ≈710,000 est. | ≈1 in 300 | — | Michael | 200 |
| 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 | ≈75,000 est. | ≈1 in 69 | — | Michael | 225 |
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). 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mícheál Ó Súilleabháinb. 1950IEIrish musician (1950-2018)
- Mícheál Ó Domhnaillb. 1951IEIrish singer, guitarist, composer, and producer (1952–2006)
- Micheal Ray Richardsonb. 1955USAmerican basketball player and coach (1955–2025)
- Micheal Williamsb. 1966USAmerican basketball player (born 1966)
- Micheal Nakamurab. 1976JPJapanese-born Australian baseball player (born 1976)
- Mike Hallb. 1984USnot in their usual nameAmerican basketball player
- Micheal Azirab. 1987UGUgandan football player
- Micheal Ericb. 1988NGNigerian basketball player (born 1988)
- Micheal Wardb. 1997GBBritish actor
- Taiwo Awoniyib. 1997NGnot in their usual nameNigerian association football player
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 72 sources across 41 countries.
Reference works 6
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- 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
- Is Micheal a male or female name?
- Micheal 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.
- What does the name Micheal mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Michael. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- What are other forms of the name Micheal?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Michel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Micheal have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 million people named Michael, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Micheal most common?
- No national register we hold counts the spelling Micheal itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 43 people named Michal.
- How common is the name Micheal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,476,721 people named Michael in 2020, about 1 in 96 residents.
- How common is Micheal compared with other names?
- In the United States, Micheal is the 2nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/michealThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Micheal” — the 2nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.