Given name · also Latin
Micheál
“who is like God?”
Micheál is a masculine given name from Latin, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Irish.
Original LatinMichael
Meaning & origin
What it means
Micheál goes back to Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mîḵāʾēl), meaning “who is like God?”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Micheál comes from Latin, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Irish usage, Micheál developed from Michael.
Micheál’s family of names
In Irish usage, Micheál developed from the Latin form Michael. In Irish usage, Micheál has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Michele. In Irish usage, Micheál has a conventional equivalent in the English form Michael.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Micheál has relatives in 5 languages. Lines run from its Latin roots to each of them.
Latinwhere Micheál comes from · 1 name
Spellings & scripts 4
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 3
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Micheál
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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