girls:
5 births since 1969
#5711 (0th percentile)
boys:
1k births since 1915
#3555 (22nd percentile)
overall:
1k births since 1915
#6694 (13th percentile)
The name Michiel is the #6,694 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,045 recorded births since 1915. This represents the 13.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 13.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,555 (22.4% percentile) for all time with 1,040 births since 1915. For girls, it ranks #5,711 (0.1% percentile) for all time with 5 births since 1969.
Michiel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1915 (1915 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Michiel is available in 63 out of the 92 years between 1915 and 2006 (63 years for boys and 1 years for girls). The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
The name Michiel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Michiel reached its peak popularity in 1951, achieving the 5.4% percentile (ranked #575) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1968, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.8% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2006.
For girls, Michiel reached its peak popularity in 1969, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #763) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 1969, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1969.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Michiel".
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These similar-looking names have spellings that are closest to the spelling of "Michiel", in the sense that there are the fewest number of letter differences between the two spellings. This list excludes the 7 other name spellings that we've determined are also variations of "Michial" based on shared pronunciations. Click here for more details on names that are pronounced like Michial..
Our model has identified 8 different pronunciations for the name Michiel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 32.4% confident that Michiel is pronounced as mih-KEEL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-SHEEL, at 14.7% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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