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Miguelito

Boys' name

Diminutive of Miguel

Miguelito has been given to 40 babies in the U.S. since 1997. 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 2011, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Miguelito, 2022

1 in 677,000

Miguelito over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miguelito: meaning, origin, and history

Diminutive of Miguel

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Miguelito means

Miguelito is a diminutive of Miguel.

Origin, language, and formation

Miguelito is used in Spanish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Miguel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Spanish, Miguelito is pronounced /miɡeˈlito/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 40 boys were recorded with the name Miguelito between 1997 and 2022. Its highest annual count was 7 in 2011; its best national rank was #9,893 in 2000.

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 Miguelito?

Miguelito had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2022, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2022
1 in 677,000
5 of 3,385,755 births
Among boys only
1 in 349,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2022
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
469,366 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miguelito 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 2022 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 469,366 children born in 2022 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miguelito. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miguelitos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miguelito was born before 2008 — so the typical Miguelito is around 17 today.

Median birth year
2008
About 17 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
40.0% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
87.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
40
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Choose a decade

2000s — 40.0% of all recorded uses (16).

Is Miguelito 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 2011 (7)
Years since peak
14
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#9,893
2000

Miguelito around the world

Where Miguelito 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.

  • France
    1996–1996
    #3,697
    in 1996

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Miguelito 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
#9,893
2000
Peak year
2011
7 that year
First recorded
1997
Last recorded
2022
All-time count
40
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miguelito

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

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Sibling names for Miguelito

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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