Michelangelo

#2,966 in 2025Boys' name

Combination of Michele and Angelo

Michelangelo has been given to 1,358 babies in the U.S. since 1961. In 2025 it ranked #2,966 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2015, with 76 recorded.

Babies named Michelangelo, 2025

1 in 78,900

Michelangelo over time, 1880–2025

Boys

Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michelangelo: meaning, origin, and history

Combination of Michele and Angelo

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michelangelo means

Michelangelo is a compound of Michele and Angelo.

Origin, language, and formation

Michelangelo is used in Italian.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michele and Angelo.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Italian, Michelangelo is pronounced /mi.keˈlan.d͡ʒe.lo/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,358 boys were recorded with the name Michelangelo between 1961 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 76 in 2015; its best national rank was #1,927 in 2015.

Over 5 years its rank fell, from #2,825 in 2020 to #2,966 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #1,927 in 2015 to #2,966 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

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How common is Michelangelo?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025: 1 in 78,900; 42 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only: 1 in 40,700; <0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025: #2,966; of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size: 54,713 kids; Even odds of a second one

Where Michelangelo sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%

Class of 30Under 1%

Grade of 100Under 1%

School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 54,713 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michelangelo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michelangelos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michelangelo was born before 2013 — so the typical Michelangelo is around 12 today.

Median birth year: 2013; About 12 years old
Biggest decade: 2010s; 35.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years: 72.3%; A modern name
Recorded since 1950: 1,358; People you could plausibly meet

Choose a decade

2010s — 35.8% of all recorded uses (486).

Is Michelangelo rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago: −421; Places dropped
Rank vs 5 years ago: −141; Places dropped
Rank vs 10 years ago: −1,039; Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago: 0.55×; Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak: 55.3%; Peak was 2015 (76)
Years since peak: 10; Years
Year-to-year steadiness: Volatile; 26.8% average annual change
Best rank ever: #1,927; 2015

Spellings of Michelangelo

Michelangelo is not the most common spelling — Michaelangelo is, with 51.1% against Michelangelo's 48.9%.

Michaelangelo51.1%1,419
Michelangelo48.9%1,358

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Michelangelo is used

Across 1910–2025, Michelangelo was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 50,000 boys, against 1 in 143,609 across all states with data. It was least common in Pennsylvania (1 in —).

02 per 100,000

State popularity map

Most concentrated

1California1 in 50,000
2Florida1 in 100,000
3Texas1 in 100,000
4Illinois1 in —
5New York1 in —
6Pennsylvania1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded boys given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Michelangelo has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michelangelo around the world

Where Michelangelo ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

England & Wales
2013–2024
#4,271
in 2024
France
1961–2021
#7,031
in 2021
Canada
2007–2007
#2,479
in 2007
South Australia
1951–1995
#533
in 1995

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Michelangelo by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025: #2,966
Trend vs 5 yrs ago: Down 141
Best rank ever: #1,927; 2015
Peak year: 2015; 76 that year
First recorded: 1961
Last recorded: 2025
All-time count: 1,358
Count in 2025: 42

Names similar to Michelangelo

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

Sibling names for Michelangelo

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

For a sister

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For a brother

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