Micheľ
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Micheľ is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Brazil than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and their source Latin Michaēl, Michahēl, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”).
- BRBrazil1 in 2.7K(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 3.3K
- DKDenmark1 in 9.6K
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)
- Sources
- 64 (measured from records)
- 1 in 2.7K (inferred from the name graph)
78,654 people, 2022
Highest-authority source
Brazil
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michel in US United States, ES Spain, SK Slovakia.
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)
- Old FrenchMichel(measured from records)
- Biblical Hebrewמִיכָאֵלmîḵāʾēl“who is like God?”(measured from records)
From Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and their source Latin Michaēl, Michahēl, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”).
Sources 9
- A concise dictionary of first names
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
- Wiktionary
- Förnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Micheľ 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | — | 78,654 | 1 in 2.7K | 79K | — | — |
| US United States | — | 19,539 | 1 in 17K | 26K | Michel | 47 |
| SE Sweden | — | 3,055 | 1 in 3.3K | 3.1K | — | 7 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,772 | 1 in 28K | 1.8K | Michel | 14 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 892 | 1 in 19K | 892 | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 612 | 1 in 9.6K | 612 | — | — |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 494 | 1 in 10K | 494 | — | — |
| SK Slovakia | #864 | — | — | 140 | Michel | 24 |
78,654 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); IBGE — Nomes (census name API); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INEC — civil registry names; Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); TSE — electoral roll (padrón) names; JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 1 sources across 1 country.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| SK Slovakia | JÚĽŠ SAV — Databáza priezvisk na Slovensku (surname database, 1995 census) | 1995 | 140 | — |
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Micheľ mean, and where does it come from?
- From Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, and their source Latin Michaēl, Michahēl, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”). Recorded by A concise dictionary of first names and Dictionary of American Family Names and 7 other sources.
- In which country does Micheľ have the most bearers?
- In Brazil, the national register counted about 79 thousand people named Micheľ, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Micheľ most common?
- Micheľ is densest in Brazil, where the national register counts about 1 in 2.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Micheľ?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 78,654 people named Micheľ in 2022, about 1 in 2.7 thousand residents.
- How common is Micheľ compared with other names?
- In Slovakia, Micheľ is the 864th most common given name of 9,943 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/miche%C4%BEThe 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, “Micheľ” — the 864th most common given name in Slovakia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.