Michael

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Primarily a boy's name · 100% boys

Origin: Hebrew

Meaning

Michael is a common masculine given name usually thought to be from the Hebrew rhetorical question ืžื™ ื›ืืœ, "Who [is] like [the Hebrew god] El?", thus being a theophoric name whose answer is "there is none like El", or "there is none as famous and powerful as God." This question is known in Latin as Quis ut Deus?

From Wikipedia

Michael first appears in the data in 1952 and has been recorded in 74 different years as a boy's name. Its single biggest year was 1962 with 2,640 babies (rank #3 that year). In 2025 it was given to 189 boys (rank #89). The name has been declining over the last five years.

Numerology of Michael

In Pythagorean numerology, every letter has a value from 1 to 9. Adding the letters of Michael yields these three numbers โ€” a playful read on the name's character.

100,284
Total babies (all years)
74
Years in the data
2,640
Peak in a single year

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Year-by-Year Detail

Rank is among all boys' names registered that year.

Year Babies Rank
19521,222#6
19531,298#6
19541,315#6
19551,456#5
19561,464#5
19571,492#5
19581,622#4
19591,709#4
19602,386#4
19612,635#4
19622,640#3
19632,577#3
19642,450#3
19652,453#2
19662,303#2
19672,455#2
19682,409#2
19692,381#2
19702,415#2
19712,563#3
19722,424#3
19732,266#2
19742,311#1
19752,271#1
19762,127#1
19772,048#1
19781,964#1
19792,039#1
19802,009#1
19812,044#1
19822,023#2
19832,121#1
19841,991#4
19851,910#4
19861,796#4
19871,741#4
19881,797#4
19891,615#5
19901,719#4
19911,459#6
19921,482#5
19931,381#5
19941,241#6
19951,005#12
1996962#11
1997895#14
1998824#14
1999702#19
2000678#18
2001643#20
2002530#25
2003473#28
2004455#30
2005421#34
2006248#38
2007256#35
2008405#37
2009378#38
2010373#38
2011382#40
2012359#45
2013326#49
2014351#49
2015987#54
20161,032#44
2017414#57
2018375#63
2019512#60
2020351#63
2021273#60
2022196#75
2023169#80
202496#107
2025189#89