Miceli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a southern variant of the personal name Michele (see Michael), influenced by the Greek form Mikhailis
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 18 countries · latest register: Census Bureau, 2020
/misɛli/(machine-generated) Spanish · model-generated · uncertain
Miceli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Italy than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.4K(inferred from the name graph)
- UYUruguay1 in 22K
- ARArgentina1 in 24K
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.
- Italy (inferred from the name graph)
- Record sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 3.4K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Italy, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)from a southern variant of the personal name Michele (see Michael), influenced by the Greek form Mikhailis.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where the surname Miceli is found
(measured from records)Miceli 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| IT Italy | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 3.4K | listed | Miceli | 63 |
| US United States | 4,708 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Miceli | 338 |
| AR Argentina | 1,889 | 1 in 24K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | ≈1,700 est. | ≈1 in 121K | 139 | — | 5 |
| FR France | ≈1,200 est. | ≈1 in 55K | 142 | — | 5 |
| BE Belgium | 485 | 1 in 24K | 519 | Miceli | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 157 | 1 in 22K | 157 | — | — |
| IE Ireland | ≈150 est. | ≈1 in 35K | — | Miceli | 5 |
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: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national); the xinhua-italian-manual register; Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); Brasil.IO genero-nomes (IBGE Censo 2010 mirror, CC-BY-SA). 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)Miceli is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Italian, variante regional de Micheli
as a nameDicionário dos sobrenomes italianos
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)- Justine Micelib. 1959USAmerican actress
- Debra Micelib. 1964USAmerican professional wrestler and monster truck driver (born 1963)
- Martina Micelib. 1973ITItalian water polo player
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)Evidence
(measured from records)33 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 18 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Miceli mean, and where does it come from?
- from a southern variant of the personal name Michele (see Michael), influenced by the Greek form Mikhailis. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Miceli?
- It depends on the language: in Spanish /misɛli/; in Italian /miˈt͡ʃe.li/ (Wiktionary). Transcriptions are machine-generated except where a dictionary is named.
- Which countries have the most people with the surname Miceli?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Miceli in Italy, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miceli. After it come United States, Argentina, Brazil and France; the country table on this page ranks them.
- How common is the name Miceli?
- In the United States, the national register counted 4,708 people named Miceli in 2010, about 1 in 71 thousand residents.
What do you want to know about Miceli?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miceliThe 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, “Miceli”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.