Miguel
About 191,562 American babies have been named Miguel since 1880, most of them around 2007. In 2025 it ranked 212th. About 177,000 Miguels are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 27.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Miguel boys named Miguel
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 191,562
- Estimated living today
- 177,000
- Median age today
- 27
- Peak year
- 2007
- Best rank
- 94th
- Rank in 2025
- 212th
- First recorded
- 1880
- Girls / boys
- 996 / 190,566
How old the living Miguels are
born that year still alive today
Of the 191,562 babies given the name since 1880, about 177,000 are alive — 92 in every hundred. Roughly 47,000 of them are children and 6,300 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 1998 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.
Where the name comes from
Origin Portuguese and Spanish
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Miguels
- Miguel de Cervantes (1547–1616)Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
- Miguel Ángel Asturias (1899–1974)Guatemalan writer and diplomat
- Miguel Díaz-Canel (born 1960)First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
- Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella (1870–1930)Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930
- Miguel Induráin (born 1964)Spanish cyclist
- Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla (1753–1811)Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence
- Miguel de la Madrid (1934–2012)59th President of Mexico
- Miguel Veloso (born 1986)Portuguese footballer
People named Miguel with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Miguel is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Miguel is most concentrated in California (3.1×), Arizona (3.1×), New Mexico (3.0×), Texas (2.8×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2007
The most popular boys’ names the year Miguel peaked:
Miguel elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Spain boys | Miguel | 45,062 | 15th |
| France boys | Miguel +2 spellings | 14,915 | 115th |
| Portugal boys | Miguel | 7,861 name registrations | 8th |
| England and Wales boys | Miguel | 1,477 | 494th |
| Belgium boys | Miguel | 963 | 186th |
| Switzerland boys | Miguel | 930 | 143rd |
| Italy boys | Miguel | 493 | — |
| Norway boys | Miguel | 305 | 290th |
| Ireland boys | Miguel | 153 | 252nd |
| Poland boys | Miguel | 126 birth registrations | 286th |
| France girls | Miguel | 65 | 1,266th |
| Scotland boys | Miguel | 17 | 588th |
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.
Miguel: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Miguel | 571 | 0.046% | 146th |
| French boys | Switzerland | Miguel | 334 | 0.077% | 88th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Miguel | 24 | 0.037% | 75th |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Miguel | 1 | 0.027% | 13th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Miguel is most concentrated in Valais, where 0.08% of children were given it – 55 of them.
Miguel: rank by region
In 2025, Miguel was given 5 times or more in 2 regions of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Miguel | 914 | 5 |
| Brussels | Miguel | 225 | 6 |
In 2020, Miguel was among the 10 most common names in 1 region of Spain.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| La Rioja | Miguel | 8 | 18 |
In 2025, Miguel was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wielkopolskie | Miguel | 248 | 2 |
In 2025, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Miguel appears in the lists for Brussels-Capital Region (225th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Spain after 10 names, Poland below 2 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.
Miguel by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 30 | 290th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Miguel 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 | Miguel | 1,000 | 2,021 |
| Finland boys | Miguel | 129 | 278 |
| the Netherlands girls | Miguel | — | 10 |
A count of people on a register – the Netherlands on 1 January 2018, Finland on 4 August 2026 – 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.
Where Miguel lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 230,734 men called Miguel were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Men: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Jaén | Miguel | 4,825 | 15.770 | 7 |
| Balears, Illes | Miguel | 9,693 | 15.567 | 5 |
| Granada | Miguel | 6,924 | 14.892 | 11 |
| Córdoba | Miguel | 5,589 | 14.788 | 10 |
| Albacete | Miguel | 2,741 | 13.976 | 11 |
| Teruel | Miguel | 963 | 13.886 | 9 |
Listed in 52 of Spain's 52 provinces. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Miguel 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.