girls:
996 births since 1927
#4720 (17th percentile)
boys:
186.9k births since 1880
#192 (96th percentile)
overall:
187.9k births since 1880
#410 (95th percentile)
The name Miguel is the #410 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 187,934 recorded births since 1880. This represents the 94.7% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 94.7% of all names). For boys, it ranks #192 (95.8% percentile) for all time with 186,938 births since 1880. For girls, it ranks #4,720 (17.4% percentile) for all time with 996 births since 1927.
Miguel has appeared in U.S. birth records since the beginning of our dataset in 1880 (since 1880 for boys and since 1927 for girls). Birth data for Miguel is available in 142 out of the 144 years between 1880 and 2023 (142 years for boys and 60 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 Miguel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 99.5% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Miguel reached its peak popularity in 2006, achieving the 89.9% percentile (ranked #89) with 2,236 births per million. The name was most common in 2002, with 2,247 births per million (ranked 89.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2004, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Miguel ranks #191 for boys (79.1% percentile) with 1,028 births per million, which is 45.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Miguel reached its peak popularity in 1992, achieving the 4.2% percentile (ranked #823) with 20 births per million. The name was most common in 1992, with 20 births per million (ranked 4.2% percentile). Despite a low point in 2017, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Miguel ranks #947 for girls (0.0% percentile) with 3 births per million, which is 14.0% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Miguel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Miguel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 55.6% confident that Miguel is pronounced as mih-GEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-GEHL, at 28.9% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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