Micheal

given name · English · Latin script

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

Micheal is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in English and , written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Variant of Michael.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 43
  • FIFinland1 in 52

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.3M ●

across 12 countries

#9 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
656 ●

65M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MichaelLatin · English●45M records
МихаилCyrillic · Russian●13M records
מיכאלHebrew · Hebrew●444K records
ᲛიხეილGeorgian · Georgian●55K records
ไมเคิลThai · Thai●3.1K records
ΜιχαήλGreek · Greek●155 records
মাইকেলBengali · Bangla●143 records
미카엘Hangul · Korean●27 records
ՄիխայիլArmenian · Armenian●6 records
ମାଇକେଲOdia · Odia●0 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 15 more, Михаил in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Mikael in FI Finland, SE Sweden and Михайло in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Micheal: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Micheal
  1. Vulgate LatinMichaēl◐via Michael
  2. Biblical Hebrewמיכאלmikhael“who is like God?”◐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●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Micheal is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#2113,284,4114.2M rec.—#8Михаил244
UA Ukraine#234,587,4624.6M rec.—listedМихайло117
US United States#33,469,43443M rec.1 in 963.5MMichael656
GB United Kingdom#42,842,1172.4M rec.—626Michael373
DE Germany#31,639,8761.5M rec.—6Michael363
AU Australia#21,532,8441.1M rec.—121Michael379
CU Cuba#61,016,44718K rec.——Michael36
CA Canada#2934,497863K rec.—58Michael323
FR France#17820,6151.1M rec.1 in 83821KMickael416
PH Philippines#6816,562582K rec.—listedMichael220
BR Brazil#363715,241△123K rec.1 in 296715KMichael208
PL Poland#9492,326△208K rec.1 in 78492KMichał254

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • English787K70%
  • 135K12%
  • Spanish44K4%
  • Swahili40K4%
  • Hebrew19K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
English787,21970%
135,26412%
Spanish43,9424%
Swahili39,8014%
Hebrew19,4342%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Micheal is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • a separate given name139K records spelled Micheal7 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, India, United Kingdom, Canada

    Also written Micheál, Mícheál, Michéal, Mícheal, Míchéal

  • Swahili given name63K records spelled Micheal6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Nigeria, United States, Kenya, Zambia

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Nyanja

    Also written Mícheál

  • a separate given name7.3K records spelled Micheal6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Nigeria, Canada

    Also written Mîçhëål, Mĩĉĥêãl, Mîçhêål, Mîcheâl, Mícheál

  • Croatian given name992 records spelled Micheal10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Bulgaria, United Kingdom, Canada

    Languages: Croatian, Bulgarian, Serbian

    Also written Michéal, Micheál, Miĉĥeal, Mícheál

63 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.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.8K · 1957

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Micheal in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188020
188117
188214
188313
188417
188511
188613
188710
188819
18898
189012
18916
189211
189311
189416
18958
189610
189717
189810
189918
190020
190114
190215
190320
190425
190531
190622
190721
190821
190929
191025
191138
191259
191398
1914123
1915172
1916181
1917204
1918190
1919159
1920174
1921166
1922128
1923157
1924179
1925163
1926127
1927140
1928116
1929110
1930123
1931122
1932118
1933101
1934105
1935129
1936128
1937143
1938189
1939245
1940298
1941411
1942521
1943657
1944732
1945951
19461,238
19471,629
19481,801
19492,381
19502,823
19513,276
19523,613
19533,987
19544,178
19554,530
19564,732
19574,831
19584,569
19594,369
19604,133
19614,017
19623,772
19633,537
19643,086
19652,763
19662,647
19672,700
19682,604
19692,720
19702,632
19712,557
19722,609
19732,476
19742,491
19752,441
19762,181
19772,215
19782,059
19792,137
19802,152
19812,023
19821,908
19831,909
19841,833
19851,758
19861,769
19871,765
19881,785
19891,833
19901,771
19911,635
19921,484
19931,308
19941,273
19951,156
19961,068
19971,068
19981,053
19991,055
2000994
2001875
2002791
2003771
2004695
2005684
2006690
2007647
2008584
2009540
2010461
2011423
2012360
2013349
2014281
2015268
2016242
2017243
2018204
2019173
2020193
2021174
2022146
2023156
2024144
2025130

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 146 years between 1880–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Mícheál Ó Súilleabháin, b. 1950Mícheál Ó Domhnaill, b. 1951Micheal Ray Richardson, b. 1955Micheal Williams, b. 1966Micheal Nakamura, b. 1976Mike Hall, b. 1984Micheal Azira, b. 1987Micheal Eric, b. 1988Micheal Ward, b. 1997Taiwo Awoniyi, b. 1997

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●

Attested in 71 sources across 41 countries.

Official registers attesting Micheal
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202083K#624
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#624
IN IndiaInstate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls—709#7,120
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—265#4,279
GY GuyanaGuyana — Official List of Electors July 20252025258#345
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022156—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—156#30,266
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025130—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)2020112—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—78#9,039
AU AustraliaNSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present)198475#98
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—62#6,888

Reference works 5

  • 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)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 671 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Micheal?
We estimate roughly 6.3 million people bear Micheal (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Micheal have the most bearers?
Micheal is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled михаил.
How common is Micheal compared with other names?
In Russia, Micheal is the 21st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
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?
Recorded meaning: Variant of Michael.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

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 21st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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