girls:
92 births since 1969
#5624 (2nd percentile)
boys:
2k births since 1926
#2785 (39th percentile)
overall:
2.1k births since 1926
#5665 (27th percentile)
The name Miquel is the #5,665 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 2,122 recorded births since 1926. This represents the 26.8% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 26.8% of all names). For boys, it ranks #2,785 (39.2% percentile) for all time with 2,030 births since 1926. For girls, it ranks #5,624 (1.6% percentile) for all time with 92 births since 1969.
Miquel first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1926 (1926 for boys and 1969 for girls). Birth data for Miquel is available in 79 out of the 98 years between 1926 and 2023 (79 years for boys and 14 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 Miquel has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 95.7% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Miquel reached its peak popularity in 1986, achieving the 8.0% percentile (ranked #649) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 1986, with 32 births per million (ranked 8.0% percentile). Since reaching a low point around 2019, the popularity of this name for boys has been increasing. Currently, Miquel ranks #908 for boys (0.3% percentile) with 4 births per million, which is 13.8% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Miquel reached its peak popularity in 1993, achieving the 0.5% percentile (ranked #861) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 1999, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.5% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 1999.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Miquel".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Miquel. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 64.9% confident that Miquel is pronounced as mih-KEHL, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mee-KEHL, at 27.0% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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