Miguel

Where Miguel comes from

Borrowed from Spanish Miguel and Portuguese Miguel. Doublet of Michael, Michel, and Mikhail.
— Wiktionary's entry for Miguel
  • Portuguese
  • Spanish
  • 2 syllables
Along the way
  1. 1547
    Miguel de Cervantes born
    Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright
  2. 1880
    First SSA year
    Already #526 among boys — 12 babies in the first year on record.
  3. 1960
    Miguel Díaz-Canel born
    First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021
  4. 2000
    Peak, #86
    4,673 babies named Miguel — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2017
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #176.
In the dictionary
  • A male given name from Portuguese and Spanish.
Namesakes
  • Miguel de Cervantes · Spanish novelist, poet, and playwright, 1547–1616
  • Miguel Díaz-Canel · First Secretary of the Communist Party of Cuba and top leader of Cuba since 2021, born 1960
  • Miguel Primo de Rivera, 2nd Marquis of Estella · Spanish politician; dictator, aristocrat, and military officer who served as Prime Minister of Spain from 1923 to 1930, 1870–1930
  • Miguel Induráin · Spanish cyclist, born 1964
  • Miguel Hidalgo Y Costilla · Catholic priest, leader of the Mexican War of Independence, 1753–1811

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.