Given name & surname · also Sicilian
Mikiel
Mikiel is a masculine given name from Sicilian, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Maltese.
Meaning & origin
Where it comes from
Mikiel comes from Sicilian, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Sicilian Micheli, from Latin Michaēl, from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl).
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1983. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mikiel through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 63
- 63 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2007
- 8 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 5 in 2022. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 140 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mikiel’s family of names
In Maltese usage, Mikiel has a conventional equivalent in the English form Michael. In Maltese usage, Mikiel was borrowed from the Sicilian form MICHELI. In Maltese usage, Mikiel has a conventional equivalent in the Polish form Michał.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mikiel has relatives in 4 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
5 related names in 4 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 5
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mikiel
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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