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Michiel

Boys' name

Form of Michael

Michiel has been given to 1,045 babies in the U.S. since 1915. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1956, with 39 recorded.

Babies named Michiel, 2006

1 in 495,000

Michiel over time, 1880–2025

BoysGirls
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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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michiel: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Michael

Hebrew

What Michiel means

Michiel is a form of Michael.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Michiel is used in Dutch.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mɪ.ˈxil/ for Michiel.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Michiel is a form of Michael. Michael has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Michiel is used in Dutch and Old French. Its origins include Hebrew.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Dutch, Michiel is pronounced /mɪˈxil/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,040 boys were recorded with the name Michiel between 1915 and 2006. Its highest annual count was 39 in 1956; its best national rank was #1,186 in 1951.

In the United States, 5 girls were recorded with the name Michiel between 1969 and 1969. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1969; its best national rank was #8,242 in 1969.

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.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Michiel?

Michiel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2006, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2006
1 in 495,000
8 of 3,956,166 births
Among boys only
1 in 257,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2006
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
342,777 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michiel 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 2006 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 342,777 children born in 2006 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michiel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michiels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michiel was born before 1961 — so the typical Michiel is around 64 today.

Median birth year
1961
About 64 years old
Biggest decade
1950s
30.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
12.1%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
871
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1950s — 30.3% of all recorded uses (315).

Is Michiel 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
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1956 (39)
Years since peak
69
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
24.5% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,186
1951

Spellings of Michiel

Michiel is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 95.5% against Michiel's 0.02%.

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 Michiel is used

Across 1910–2025, Michiel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — boys, against 1 in 540,077 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Michigan1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Michiel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michiel around the world

Where Michiel 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
    2000–2001
    #3,134
    in 2001
  • South Australia
    1959–1975
    #460
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Michiel by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#1,186
1951
Peak year
1956
39 that year
First recorded
1915
Last recorded
2006
All-time count
1,040
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#8,242
1969
Peak year
1969
5 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1969
All-time count
5
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michiel

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

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Sibling names for Michiel

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

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