Miguelangel
Masculine · “who is like God”
Miguel Ángel runs two names together — Michael and Angel — and Michelangelo is the same pair in Italian.
How old is the name Miguelangel?
Miguelangel first appears in US birth records in 1973 — 52 years ago. The typical Miguelangel alive today was born around 2005, making them about 20 years old. About 3,900 people named Miguelangel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
When was the name Miguelangel most popular?
Miguelangel peaked in 1998, reaching #981 nationally. Today it ranks #2480, 1,499 places below that high. See the whole 1998 chart.
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Where it comes from
From Mikha'el angelos to Miguelangel
The story of Miguelangel
Spanish naming pairs a saint's name with a second constantly — Miguel Ángel, José Luis, Juan Carlos — and Michelangelo is the same pair in Italian. American record-keeping often runs the two words together. Michael is the archangel and Ángel the word for a messenger. It appears in American records in current use.
Meaning
who is like God; messenger
A compound of Miguel, from the Hebrew Mikha'el, 'who is like God?', and Ángel, from the Greek angelos, 'messenger'. Spanish double names of this kind are ordinary and often written as one word in American records. Both elements are documented.
How the name formed
- Mikha'el angelos
- Miguel Ángel
- Miguelangel
Related forms: Miguel Ángel · Michelangelo
Pronouncing Miguelangel
mee-GEL-AHN-hel
Five syllables, with stress on the second and fourth. Spanish gives the g of Ángel an h sound.
Nicknames for Miguelangel
Moderate
What the data says
146 years of official birth records
The long climb, and where it stands now
The same years in position rather than babies
- First recorded
- 1973
- Most boys named
- 2007171 — the highest on record
- Peak rank
- #981reached in 1998
- Change vs 2024
- +5.9%54 in 2025, from 51
Rank is a position, a count is a headcount, and they move independently — a name can hold its rank while the number of babies behind it falls. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration.
Miguelangel in other languages
The same name elsewhere
- Miguel Ángel in Spanish — spelling variant
- Michelangelo in Italian — related form
Strongest US states over the last decade: California, Texas, Florida.
Miguelangels among us
people named Miguelangel are estimated to be alive in the US today
About 1 boy in 31,631 born in 2025 was named Miguelangel
Estimated from SSA birth records and published actuarial life tables. Method
Is it right for you
What happens to a name after it peaks
The Demetric test
Every popular name lives one long story — a climb, a peak, a slow settling back. Miguelangel's later chapters haven't been written yet, so we borrowed them: Demetric climbed just as high around 1977, and its whole arc is on record. Line the two peaks up, and Demetric's path sketches the road Miguelangel is walking now.
Miguelangel sits in the calm middle of the cycle — neither chasing a wave nor sliding off one. Middle-of-the-cycle names age slowly and predictably.
A scored estimate from 146 years of naming cycles — not a prophecy. Great names outlive statistics. How this is scored
Where Miguelangel is headed
Miguelangel should hold steady through 2030 — the curve is flat, and flat curves are the most predictable kind.
Medium confidence — fitted on official counts through 2025.
A damped-trend projection of the official birth data — a sketch of momentum, not a promise. Every name's forecast, ranked.
Miguelangel beside its neighbors
The names ranked closest to Miguelangel in 2025, in babies rather than position — the bars are to scale.
US boys given each name in 2025.
The trade-off
- That Michelangelo is the same pair of names is a first-rate connection.
- Miguel is available as a short form with an enormous record.
- Both elements have transparent settled meanings.
- It is properly two words and is often run together in records.
- Five syllables make it very long for everyday use.
- It reads as specifically Spanish-speaking.
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Frequently asked
- How many Miguelangels are there in the world?
- No country counts the world's names, so there is no worldwide figure — anyone quoting one is estimating. About 3,900 people named Miguelangel are estimated to be alive in the US today.
- How popular is the name Miguelangel in 2025?
- Miguelangel ranks #2480 among US boy names in 2025, with 54 babies given the name.
- How rare is the name Miguelangel?
- About 1 in every 31,631 US boys born in 2025 was named Miguelangel — 54 in all.
- Will my child share the name Miguelangel with classmates?
- Miguelangel will almost certainly be the only one in school.
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