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Miguel

Pronounced /miˈɡɛl/

Rank in 2024
#189
Born in 2024
1,924
Peak year
2007 · #94
Origin
Portuguese

1880 to 2024

Steady
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Its story in numbers

  • In 2024, 1,924 boys were named Miguel, about 1 in every 892.
  • It peaked in 2007 with 4,906 babies, ranked #94.
  • It appears in the very first year of records, 1880.
  • 188,883 boys have been named Miguel since 1880.

Who else has this name

Babies named Miguel per 1,000 born in each generation, on one shared scale.

  1. 0.1
    Greatest
  2. 0.2
    Silent
  3. 0.3
    Boomers
  4. 0.9
    Gen X
  5. 1.7
    Millennials
  6. 2.2
    Gen Z
  7. 1.3
    Gen Alpha

Greatest: 2,327 babies, 0.14 per 1,000. Silent: 3,302 babies, 0.16 per 1,000. Boomers: 11,818 babies, 0.31 per 1,000. Gen X: 23,925 babies, 0.88 per 1,000. Millennials: 51,697 babies, 1.70 per 1,000. Gen Z: 68,363 babies, 2.18 per 1,000. Gen Alpha: 27,230 babies, 1.25 per 1,000.

Meaning and origin

Borrowed from Spanish Miguel and Portuguese Miguel. Doublet of Michael, Michel, and Mikhail.

  • A male given name from Portuguese and Spanish.
  • A middle name from the same sources as the given name.
Origin
Portuguese
Say it
/miˈɡɛl/

From Wiktionary’s entry for Miguel, CC BY-SA 4.0.

Other spellings

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    Migel

    Rank
    unranked
    Born '24
    0
    Origin
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    1880peak 19932024