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Miquel

Boys' name

Who is like God?

Miquel has been given to 2,123 babies in the U.S. since 1926. 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 1986, with 61 recorded.

Babies named Miquel, 2023

1 in 414,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Miquel: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?

Hebrew

What Miquel means

Miquel means “who is like God?”, associated with mikhael.

Origin, language, and formation

Miquel is used in Catalan. Its origins include Hebrew.

Miquel comes through Hebrew מיכאל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael and Miguel.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Catalan, Miquel is pronounced [miˈke̞l].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 2,031 boys were recorded with the name Miquel between 1926 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 61 in 1986; its best national rank was #1,239 in 1986.

In the United States, 92 girls were recorded with the name Miquel between 1969 and 1999. Its highest annual count was 9 in 1993; its best national rank was #7,177 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 Miquel?

Miquel had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2023
1 in 414,000
8 of 3,314,783 births
Among boys only
1 in 214,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
287,205 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Miquel 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 2023 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 287,205 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Miquel. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Miquels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Miquel was born before 1986 — so the typical Miquel is around 39 today.

Median birth year
1986
About 39 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
24.3% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
23.4%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
1,997
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 24.3% of all recorded uses (494).

Is Miquel 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 1986 (61)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
35.8% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,239
1986

Spellings of Miquel

Miquel is not the most common spelling — Manuel is, with 44.4% against Miquel's 0.47%.

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 Miquel is used

Across 1910–2025, Miquel was most concentrated in California — about 1 in 100,000 boys, against 1 in 186,880 across all states with data. It was least common in South Carolina (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in 100,000
  2. 2New York1 in 100,000
  3. 3Texas1 in 100,000
  4. 4Florida1 in —
  5. 5Georgia1 in —
  6. 6Illinois1 in —
  7. 7Maryland1 in —
  8. 8North Carolina1 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. Miquel has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Miquel around the world

Where Miquel 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
    2007–2024
    #5,120
    in 2024
  • France
    1917–1975
    #1,715
    in 1975

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques. ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0.

Notable people named Miquel

People whose public names include Miquel, backed by Wikidata given-name records and ordered by linked Wikimedia pages. The name may be a middle name.

People data from Wikidata (CC0). Fame is measured, not judged — the order reflects how widely each person is documented, not the U.S. birth records popularity this page is otherwise about.

Miquel in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Miquel. Linked forms have their own page here.

MikaMihaiMikelMikkoMayconMicaelMichalMichelMiguelMihaelMikaelMikailMichaelMichailMicheleMichielMikhailMitchelMykolasMykhailoMichasMichałMihkelMihály

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Miquel 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
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Best rank ever
#1,239
1986
Peak year
1986
61 that year
First recorded
1926
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
2,031
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#7,177
1969
Peak year
1993
9 that year
First recorded
1969
Last recorded
1999
All-time count
92
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Miquel

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

BenuelSammuelMarquelMiqueasShmuelKemuelReuelJanuelRuelLemuelAmanuelEnmanuelNahuelJuelAnuelJosuelImmanuelMiquanJemuelJaquelYanuelSimuelMiqdadDanuel

Names with a curve like Miquel

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Miquel, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

ArnaldoGeraldoRonnellChristenRondellKedrickDemetrisRyonDerrekJebDemetricJory

Sibling names for Miquel

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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