Miceli
surname · Latin script
Meaning: from a southern variant of the personal name Michele (see Michael), influenced by the Greek form Mikhailis
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/miˈtʃɛɫi/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Miceli is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- ITItaly≈1 in 5.3K(inferred from the name graph)
- USUnited States1 in 71K
- UYUruguay1 in 22K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 338 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 5.3K (inferred from the name graph)
≈17,000 people, est.
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.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Where in the world(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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈17,000 est. | ≈1 in 81K | — | Miceli | 3 |
| IT Italy | ≈12,000 est. | ≈1 in 5.3K | listed | Miceli | 63 |
| US United States | 4,708 | 1 in 71K | 4.7K | Miceli | 338 |
| CD Congo - Kinshasa | ≈3,100 est. | ≈1 in 33K | — | Miceli | 1 |
| AR Argentina | 1,889 | 1 in 24K | 1.9K | — | 1 |
| BE Belgium | 485 | 1 in 24K | 519 | Miceli | 20 |
| UY Uruguay | 157 | 1 in 22K | 157 | — | — |
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). 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)
- Giorgio Micelib. 1836ITItalian composer
- Vito Micelib. 1916ITmilitary
- Justine Micelib. 1959USAmerican actress
- Tony Micelib. 1960USAmerican jazz vibraphonist
- John Micelib. 1961USAmerican drummer
- Debra Micelib. 1964USAmerican professional wrestler and monster truck driver (born 1963)
- Dan Micelib. 1970USAmerican baseball player
- Nicola Micelib. 1971ITItalian cyclist
- Martina Micelib. 1973ITItalian water polo player
- Alessio Micelib. 1999ITassociation football 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)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 4.7K | #7,107 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 4.6K | #6,727 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 4.5K | #7,094 |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Apellidos (person counts, national) | — | 1.9K | — |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 519 | #2,929 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 485 | #3,135 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Apellidos más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 157 | — |
| IT Italy | 意大利语姓名译名手册 (Xinhua Italian Name Manual) | — | — | — |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia surname tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Cognomix.it (Nomix s.r.l.) — Italian surname origin dictionary
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 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?
- A machine transcription gives /miˈtʃɛɫi/ (IPA) for English.
- In which country does Miceli have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 17 thousand people named Miceli in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled miceli.
- 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.
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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 2026-10-10.