Miguel

given name · Spanish · Latin script

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

Miguel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is the 23rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Spanish and Portuguese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Spanish form of Michael; Heb.

rarermore common
  • GTGuatemala1 in 57◐
  • PTPortugal1 in 76
  • MXMexico1 in 142

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

≈1.4M ●

across 10 countries

#69 ●

of 16M given names

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
493 ●

9.0M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 156 ◐

Ecuador

Spellings & scripts●

MiguelLatin · Spanish●14M records
ΜιγκουελGreek · Greek●0 records

Locally spelled Mïgüël in DO Dominican Republic.

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●

Spanish form of Michael; Heb. 'Who is like God?'.

Sources 1

  • Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms

Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Miguel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
AR Argentina#233,811,8732.5M rec.—9.5KMiguel184
MX Mexico#162,241,5841.8M rec.—2.8KMiguel289
PE Peru#181,171,384841K rec.—191KMiguel162
VE Venezuela#22927,242476K rec.——Miguel146
BR Brazil#69715,241△348K rec.1 in 296715KMiguel227
GT Guatemala#13625,94441K rec.—293KMiguel99
CL Chile#36389,57938K rec.—1Miguel179
US United States#336295,3411.1M rec.1 in 1.1K295KMiguel493
CO Colombia#39253,975102K rec.——Miguel207
ES Spain#11230,734818K rec.1 in 217238KMiguel300
PT Portugal#9110,45840K rec.—839Miguel237
EC Ecuador#20108,054△5K rec.1 in 156108KMiguel115

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

Languages●

  • Spanish14M54%
  • Portuguese6.9M26%
  • English2.8M11%
  • 317K1%
  • Catalan231K1%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Spanish14,192,14454%
Portuguese6,905,51426%
English2,809,20111%
316,8941%
Catalan230,8541%

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◐

Miguel is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name3.1M records spelled Miguel66 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Brazil, Venezuela, Guatemala

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Miguél, Miguël, Míguel, Miguèl, Migüel

  • a separate given name361K records spelled Miguel6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ecuador, Spain, United Kingdom

    Also written Míguel, Miguèl, Miguél, Migúel, Miguël

  • Lao given name26K records spelled Miguel41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Laos, United States, Spain, Thailand

    Languages: Lao, Thai

    Also written มิเกล, Mïgüël, Migüel, M̶i̶g̶u̶e̶l̶, มีเกล

  • Polish given name22K records spelled Miguel41 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, United States, Russia, Spain

    Languages: Polish, Russian, Ukrainian

    Also written Мигель, Мігель, Miquel, Мигел, Migel

  • Indonesian given name21K records spelled Miguel4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, United States, Indonesia, Philippines

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Miguél, Míguel

  • Finnish given name9.2K records spelled Miguel5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Finland, Spain, United States, Peru

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian

    Also written Mîgūęl, Migüel, Miguël

101 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.

Other recorded senses●

Miguel is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, Spanish form of Michael; "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…

  • from the personal name Miguel, equivalent to Michael.

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • In Portuguese, a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Michael

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Quem é como Deus?; Ciudad de Mexico, Ferrara

    as a nameDicionario Sefaradi De SobrenomesDictionary Of Sephardic Surnames Inclusive Cristaos-Novos, Conversos, Marranos, Italianos,…

  • In Spanish, Hebreo mi-ka-El: '¿quién como Dios?'; nombre del arcángel Miguel

    as a nameDiccionario etimológico de nombres propios

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.

Over time●

02K4K6K1900195020004.9K · 2007

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Miguel in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1880–2025
Yearrecords
188012
18819
188210
188312
18849
188510
188613
18898
18909
18917
189216
189312
189413
189516
18967
189714
189813
189914
190017
190113
190221
190318
190418
190525
190619
190719
190824
190918
191032
191136
191247
191361
191468
1915104
191689
1917107
1918102
1919137
1920127
1921128
1922161
1923175
1924191
1925191
1926195
1927201
1928226
1929245
1930221
1931189
1932171
1933179
1934153
1935145
1936155
1937143
1938139
1939161
1940170
1941166
1942183
1943214
1944216
1945226
1946262
1947292
1948383
1949368
1950443
1951464
1952511
1953545
1954610
1955613
1956668
1957742
1958771
1959799
1960818
1961827
1962871
1963881
1964951
1965951
19661,017
19671,056
19681,107
19691,304
19701,344
19711,472
19721,421
19731,461
19741,658
19751,657
19761,758
19771,756
19781,829
19791,960
19802,177
19812,400
19822,630
19832,378
19842,419
19852,525
19862,578
19872,637
19882,735
19893,083
19903,696
19913,948
19924,173
19934,349
19944,033
19953,953
19964,160
19974,234
19984,256
19994,207
20004,673
20014,558
20024,644
20034,592
20044,525
20054,677
20064,903
20074,906
20084,450
20094,174
20103,457
20113,169
20122,942
20132,888
20142,757
20152,573
20162,507
20172,280
20182,185
20192,185
20202,053
20211,950
20222,040
20231,895
20241,931
20251,661

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 144 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●

500100015002000Michael II, b. 770Michael III, b. 840Miguel Servet, b. 1511Don Miguel, b. 1802Carlos I of Portugal, b. 1863Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbaneja, b. 1870Manuel II of Portugal, b. 1889Michel Temer, b. 1940Sebastián Piñera, b. 1949Miguel Díaz-Canel, b. 1960
  • Michael IIb. 770TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor
  • Michael IIIb. 840TRnot in their usual nameByzantine emperor from 842 to 867
  • Miguel Servetb. 1511ESSpanish physician and theologian
  • Don Miguelb. 1802PTKing of Portugal from 1828 to 1834
  • Carlos I of Portugalb. 1863PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal from 1889 to 1908 (1863–1908)
  • Miguel Primo de Rivera y Orbanejab. 1870ESSpanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
  • Manuel II of Portugalb. 1889PTnot in their usual nameKing of Portugal (1889–1932)
  • Michel Temerb. 1940BRnot in their usual name24th Vice-President of Brazil from 2011 to 2016 and 37th President of Brazil from 2016 to 2019
  • Sebastián Piñerab. 1949CLnot in their usual nameChilean entrepreneur and politician (1949–2024)
  • Miguel Díaz-Canelb. 1960CUFirst Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021

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 127 sources across 66 countries.

Official registers attesting Miguel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)2022715K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—709K#18
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020295K#173
GT GuatemalaRENAP — annual births2024293K#8
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—241K#215
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—238K#15
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—231K#26
PE PeruRENIEC — DNI population names2019191K#8
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)2020157K—
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names2024108K#11
ES SpainINE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—26K#197
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—26K#197

Reference works 8

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • The Oxford Dictionary of Family Names in Britain and Ireland
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
  • jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)

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

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 1,514 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Miguel?
We estimate roughly 1.4 million people bear Miguel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 10 countries in our records.
In which country does Miguel have the most bearers?
Miguel is most frequently recorded in Argentina, where it is most often spelled miguel.
How common is Miguel compared with other names?
In Argentina, Miguel is the 23rd most common given name of 517,176 given names recorded there.
Is Miguel a male or female name?
Miguel 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 Miguel mean?
Recorded meaning: Spanish form of Michael; Heb.
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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, “Miguel” — the 23rd most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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