Given name & surname
Migel
Migel is a given name from Old Spanish. It is used in Ladino.
Meaning & origin
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1920. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Migel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 1,718
- 1,718 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1993
- 52 babies
- 2025
- 5
- #13,256 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 5 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 13,256 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 52 in 1993. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 1,327 as a first name in 2020; 140 as a surname in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Migel’s family of names
In Ladino usage, Migel has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Miguel.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 2
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
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