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Michael
Pronounced /ˈmaɪkəl/
Rank in 2024
#18
Born in 2024
8,189
Peak year
1957 · #1
Origin
Hebrew
Also recorded for girls:15 in 2024 (#7,337)
1880 to 2024
CoolingIts story in numbers
- In 2024, 8,189 boys were named Michael, about 1 in every 209.
- It peaked in 1957 with 92,786 babies, ranked #1.
- It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
- 4,418,526 boys have been named Michael since 1880.
Who else has this name
Babies named Michael per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.
- 4.0Greatest1901–27
- 9.5Silent1928–45
- 39.0Boomers1946–64
- 43.6Gen X1965–80
- 31.2Millennials1981–96
- 13.0Gen Z1997–12
- 6.4Gen Alpha2013–24
Greatest: 66,415 babies, 3.97 per 1,000. Silent: 195,318 babies, 9.46 per 1,000. Boomers: 1,464,314 babies, 39.00 per 1,000. Gen X: 1,186,586 babies, 43.60 per 1,000. Millennials: 949,497 babies, 31.19 per 1,000. Gen Z: 409,205 babies, 13.04 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 139,212 babies, 6.41 per 1,000.
Meaning and origin
From Middle English Michael, from Old French Michel, Old English Michahel, from their source Latin Michaēl, Michāhēl, from Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ (Mĭkhāḗl), from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl, literally “who is like God?”). Doublet of Miguel and Mikhail.
- (countable) A male given name from Hebrew.
- A surname transferred from the given name.
- Origin
- Hebrew
- Say it
- /ˈmaɪkəl/
From Wiktionary’s entry for Michael, CC BY-SA 4.0.