Miquel
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Michael
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/micel/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miquel is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Spain than in any other country. In Andorra it is the 38th most common given name.
- ESSpain1 in 2.6K(measured from records)
- USUnited States1 in 158K
- ADAndorra≈1 in 1.7K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Spain (measured from records)
- Sources
- 238 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
19,078 people
Highest-authority source
Andorra, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Michael
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Miquel counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | #201 | 19,078 | 1 in 2.6K | 19K | Miquel | 180 |
| BR Brazil | — | 3,049 | 1 in 69K | 3K | — | 1 |
| US United States | — | 2,107 | 1 in 158K | 2K | Miquel | 237 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 978 | 1 in 18K | 968 | Miquel | 50 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈360 est. | ≈1 in 182K | listed | Miquel | 61 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈130 est. | ≈1 in 90K | 8 | Miquel | 22 |
| AD Andorra | #38 | ≈45 est. | ≈1 in 1.7K | — | Miquel | 27 |
19,078 people counted by INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos). Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Miquel is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In German, from Michael
as a nameDeutsche Namenkunde: Unsere Familiennamen nach ihrer Entstehung und Bedeutung
Catalan form of MICHAEL .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Michael Scotb. 1175GBnot in their usual nameScottish mathematician and scholar (1175–c.1232)
- Mikael Agricolab. 1508SEnot in their usual nameFinnish clergyman and de facto founder of literary Finnish (ca 1510-1557)
- Junípero Serrab. 1713ESnot in their usual nameChristian missionary
- Miguel Pobletb. 1928ESnot in their usual nameSpanish road racing cyclist (1928–2013)
- Miquel Brownb. 1945USCanadian actress and singer
- Miquel Barcelób. 1957ESpainter (born 1957)
- Miquel Solerb. 1965ESSpanish footballer (born 1965)
- Miquel Fernándezb. 1980ESSpanish actor and singer
- Jon Toralb. 1995ESnot in their usual nameSpanish association football player
- Miki Núñezb. 1996ESnot in their usual nameSpanish singer
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 51 sources across 27 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 19K | #153 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 19K | #354 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 3K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 3K | #3,848 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2020 | 2.4K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 2.2K | #5,682 |
| BR Brazil | Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA) | — | 2.1K | #2,266 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 2K | #7,289 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2010 | 1.4K | — |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018) | — | 968 | #1,074 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2010 | 968 | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 643 | — |
Reference works 6
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- jeantosti.com — Dictionnaire des noms de famille de France et d'ailleurs (Jean Tosti)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miquel mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Michael Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Miquel?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Miquel?
- A machine transcription gives /micel/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Miquel a male or female name?
- Miquel is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- In which country does Miquel have the most bearers?
- In Spain, the national register counted about 19 thousand people named Miquel, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miquel.
- How common is the name Miquel?
- In Spain, the national register counted 19,078 people named Miquel, about 1 in 2.6 thousand residents.
- How common is Miquel compared with other names?
- In Spain, Miquel is the 201st most common given name of 135,644 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Miquel?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miquelThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Miquel” — the 201st most common given name in Spain. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.