Miguel is a boy's name of Spanish origin meaning “Who is like God?.” In 2024 it was given to 1,924 boys in the United States.
Miguel at a glance
Gender
Boy name
Origin
Spanish · English & American · Portuguese
Meaning
“Who is like God?”
Pronunciation
/miˈɡɛl/
About the name Miguel
Miguel belongs to the Spanish and English & American tradition. Its meaning — “Who is like God?” — is the sense carried by its Spanish roots, and it is the meaning we verified against published sources for this page.
In the United States, Miguel first appears in Social Security records in 1880. It climbed to its best-ever rank of #86 in 2000, and in 2024 1,924 babies received the name — 188,883 in total since 1880. Those are the official counts, not estimates.
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