Miguela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a female given name, masculine equivalent Miguel, equivalent to English Michaela
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miɡela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miguela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the Philippines than in any other country.
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.7K(inferred from the name graph)
- PHPhilippines≈1 in 7.1K
- DODominican Republic≈1 in 11K
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.
- Philippines (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 90 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
≈15,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Paraguay, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a female given name, masculine equivalent Miguel, equivalent to English Michaela
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 21 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miguela 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| PH Philippines | — | ≈15,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.1K | — | Miguela | 42 |
| PY Paraguay | #220 | ≈4,200 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Miguela | 21 |
| AR Argentina | — | ≈2,100 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 53 | Miguela | 39 |
| ES Spain | — | 1,939 | 1 in 26K | 2.1K | Miguela | 60 |
| ID Indonesia | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 211K | — | Miguela | 6 |
| DO Dominican Republic | #594 | ≈1,000 est. | ≈1 in 11K | — | Miguela | 12 |
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); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal). 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)
Miguela is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In French, Female form of Miguel; from Michael.
as a nameDictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
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.
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 31 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.1K | #841 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 1.9K | #1,770 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1956 | 51 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1956 | 51 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1952 | 50 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1952 | 50 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1947 | 50 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1947 | 50 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1960 | 47 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1960 | 47 | — |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 1944 | 47 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 1944 | 47 | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- What does the name Miguela mean, and where does it come from?
- a female given name, masculine equivalent Miguel, equivalent to English Michaela Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- How do you pronounce Miguela?
- A machine transcription gives /miɡela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Miguela a male or female name?
- Miguela is a female 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 are other forms of the name Miguela?
- In the etymology graph, Michelle, Michele and Micaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Miguela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 15 thousand people named Miguela in the Philippines, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miguela.
- How common is the name Miguela?
- In Spain, the national register counted 1,939 people named Miguela, about 1 in 26 thousand residents.
- How common is Miguela compared with other names?
- In Paraguay, Miguela is the 220th most common given name of 20,931 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Miguela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miguelaThe 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, “Miguela” — the 220th most common given name in Paraguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.