Michiel
The boy's name Michiel has been in the national records since 1915, with 1,045 births to its name. It has not appeared in the national data since 2006. About 780 Michiels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 61.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Michiel boys named Michiel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 1,045
- Estimated living today
- 780
- Median age today
- 61
- Peak year
- 1956
- Best rank
- 1,218th
- Rank in 2025
- unranked
- First recorded
- 1915
- Girls / boys
- 5 / 1,040
How old the living Michiels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 1,045 babies given the name since 1915, about 780 are alive — 74 in every hundred. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1964 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Notable Michiels
- Michiel de Ruyter (1607–1676)Dutch admiral
- Michiel Huisman (born 1981)Dutch actor
- Michiel Coxie (1499–1592)Flemish painter
- Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt (1566–1641)Dutch painter
- Michiel de Swaen (1654–1707)southern Dutch playwright and poet
- Michiel Bartman (born 1967)Dutch rower
- Michiel Sweerts (1618–1664)Flemish painter and printmaker
- Michiel Kramer (born 1988)Dutch footballer
People named Michiel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Michiel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Michiel is most concentrated in Texas (7.5×), California (3.4×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1956
The most popular boys’ names the year Michiel peaked:
Michiel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Belgium boys | Michiel | 3,323 | 23rd |
| England and Wales boys | Michiel | 6 | 3,134th |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Michiel: rank by region
In 2022, Michiel was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Michiel | 577 | 9 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Michiel appears in the lists for Province of West Flanders (202nd).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Michiel among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| the Netherlands boys | Michiel | 16,096 | 25,546 |
| the Netherlands girls | Michiel | — | 178 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Michiel against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.