Michelangelo
given name · Latin script
Meaning, in Italian: Michelangelo (Italian artist)
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mikeland͡ʒelo/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michelangelo is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.5K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 306K
- CHSwitzerland≈1 in 61K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 168 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.5K (inferred from the name graph)
≈11,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Italian compound of Michael + angelo; "who is like God?"
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested in 1 language in the etymology graph.
How Michelangelo is read(measured from records)
Michelangelo is one spelling over 4 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 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.
- Italian49%
Michelangelo (Italian artist)
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- English17%
Italian compound of Michael + angelo; "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…
name of the famous artist Michelangelo Buonarroti
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A 15th- and 16th-century Italian artist, full name Michelangelo di Lodovico Buonarroti Simoni (1475–1564).
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
- Portuguese7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Michelangelo in Portuguese.
- Spanish7.8%
No dictionary in our sources glosses Michelangelo in Spanish.
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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)
Michelangelo 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | #730 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.5K | 241 | Michelangelo | 149 |
| US United States | — | 1,087 | 1 in 306K | 1.1K | Michelangelo | 168 |
| BR Brazil | — | 588 | 1 in 360K | 588 | — | 1 |
| PH Philippines | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 420K | — | Michelangelo | 13 |
| CN China | — | ≈240 est. | ≈1 in 5.8M | — | Michelangelo | 3 |
| CH Switzerland | — | ≈140 est. | ≈1 in 61K | — | Michelangelo | 20 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 92K | — | Michelangelo | 16 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 121 | 1 in 143K | 121 | Michelangelo | 18 |
| IS Iceland | — | 3 | 1 in 117K | 3 | — | — |
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: ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Michelangelo is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
From micuete and angelo ‘angel’, famous as the name of the Florentine painter, sculptor, and architect Michelangelo Buonarotti (1475-1564).
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
Italian: compound made up of Michele MICHAEL + angelo angel. Its best-known bearer was the Florentine painter, sculptor, architect, and poet Michelangelo Buonarroti (1475–1564).
as a word
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)
- Michelangelob. 1475ITItalian artist and architect (1475-1564)
- Caravaggiob. 1571ITnot in their usual nameItalian painter (1571–1610)
- Michelangelo Galileib. 1575FRItalian lutenist and composer (1575-1631)
- Michelangelo Cerquozzib. 1602ITpainter from Italy (1602–1660)
- Innocent XIIIb. 1655ITnot in their usual namepope of the Catholic Church from 1721 to 1724
- Michelangelo Abbadob. 1900ITItalian violinist (1900-1979)
- Michelangelo Antonionib. 1912ITItalian film director and screenwriter (1912–2007)
- Michelangelo Pistolettob. 1933ITItalian artist, painter and sculptor (born 1933)
- Michelangelo Rampullab. 1962ITItalian football player and manager (born 1962)
- Michelangelo Frammartinob. 1968ITItalian film director (born 1968)
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 47 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 1.1K | #11,689 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 588 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 585 | #11,964 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 553 | — |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 531 | #5,913 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 517 | #14,000 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 469 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2000 | 399 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 1990 | 302 | — |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2022 | 253 | #105 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2024 | 241 | #106 |
| IT Italy | ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend) | 2023 | 237 | #107 |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- 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
- Where does the name Michelangelo come from?
- Italian compound of Michael + angelo; "who is like God?" Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Michelangelo?
- In the etymology graph, Angelo is a form of the same name in other languages.
- What does the name Michelangelo mean?
- In Italian, Michelangelo (Italian artist)
- How do you pronounce Michelangelo?
- A machine transcription gives /mikeland͡ʒelo/ (IPA) for Italian.
- Is Michelangelo a male or female name?
- Michelangelo 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 Michelangelo have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 11 thousand people named Michelangelo in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michelangelo.
- How common is the name Michelangelo?
- In the United States, the national register counted 1,087 people named Michelangelo in 2020, about 1 in 306 thousand residents.
- How common is Michelangelo compared with other names?
- In Italy, Michelangelo is the 730th most common given name of 102,667 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/michelangeloThe 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, “Michelangelo” — the 730th most common given name in Italy. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.