Michaelangelo
Michaelangelo was given to 20 boys in 2025, #4,982 among boys’ names; 1,419 Americans have been recorded with it since 1962 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,380 Americans named Michaelangelo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 22 years old and half are between 13 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michaelangelo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michaelangelo?
#4,982 among boys’ names, 2025
Michaelangelo fell from #2,449 in 2015 to #4,982 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 27.1 to 11.7 per million.
72 babies in 1990, the peak
Michaelangelo peaked in 1990, when 72 boys were given it, #1,308 among boys’ names. The 20 births of 2025 are 28% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #4,982 | 11.7 |
| 2024 | 21 | #4,819 | 12.2 |
| 2023 | 19 | #5,183 | 11.1 |
| 2022 | 29 | #3,835 | 16.6 |
| 2021 | 25 | #4,185 | 14.3 |
| 2020 | 26 | #3,987 | 15.1 |
| 2019 | 20 | #4,906 | 11.1 |
| 2018 | 22 | #4,557 | 12.1 |
| 2017 | 19 | #5,045 | 10.3 |
| 2016 | 38 | #3,099 | 20.0 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 52 | #2,449 | 27.1 |
| 2014 | 43 | #2,787 | 22.4 |
| 2013 | 39 | #2,932 | 20.6 |
| 2012 | 40 | #2,937 | 21.1 |
| 2011 | 35 | #3,219 | 18.4 |
| 2010 | 39 | #2,989 | 20.3 |
| 2009 | 31 | #3,524 | 15.6 |
| 2008 | 50 | #2,533 | 24.5 |
| 2007 | 59 | #2,250 | 28.4 |
| 2006 | 30 | #3,495 | 14.6 |
| 2005 | 33 | #3,141 | 16.5 |
| 2004 | 39 | #2,725 | 19.6 |
| 2003 | 38 | #2,659 | 19.2 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,152 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 25 | #3,472 | 12.9 |
| 2000 | 35 | #2,655 | 17.8 |
| 1999 | 34 | #2,591 | 17.7 |
| 1998 | 35 | #2,482 | 18.3 |
| 1997 | 35 | #2,376 | 18.6 |
| 1996 | 18 | #3,772 | 9.5 |
| 1995 | 27 | #2,731 | 14.2 |
| 1994 | 22 | #3,174 | 11.4 |
| 1993 | 25 | #2,837 | 12.7 |
| 1992 | 33 | #2,281 | 16.5 |
| 1991 | 45 | #1,780 | 22.3 |
| 1990 | 72 | #1,308 | 35.1 |
| 1989 | 23 | #2,747 | 11.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,821 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 12 | #3,886 | 6.4 |
| 1986 | 12 | #3,795 | 6.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #3,724 | 6.5 |
| 1984 | 8 | #4,833 | 4.4 |
| 1983 | 10 | #4,049 | 5.6 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,408 | 3.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #3,157 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 8 | #4,800 | 4.5 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,494 | 7.0 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,601 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 7 | #4,757 | 4.5 |
| 1975 | 8 | #4,175 | 5.1 |
| 1974 | 9 | #3,736 | 5.7 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,610 | 3.2 |
| 1972 | 7 | #4,284 | 4.3 |
| 1971 | 8 | #3,846 | 4.5 |
| 1970 | 7 | #4,097 | 3.8 |
| 1969 | 6 | #4,253 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 12 | #2,536 | 6.9 |
| 1966 | 6 | #3,796 | 3.4 |
| 1962 | 5 | #4,442 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Michaelangelo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michaelangelo has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 59 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michaelangelo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michaelangelo, and how old are they?
1,380 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,419 Americans ever recorded as Michaelangelo. The median Michaelangelo alive today is 22 years old; half are between 13 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 1,235 people named Michaelangelo (2 women and girls, 1,233 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,257 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 4 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 90 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 337 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 577 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 370 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Michaelangelo born?
The states with the most babies named Michaelangelo are California, Texas and New York, with 89% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 394 | not ranked | 2.1× |
| Texas | 96 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| New York | 54 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Florida | 33 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arizona | 10 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
Where Michaelangelo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Michaelangelo is most over-represented in California: since 1962 it was given 2.1 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Michaelangelo with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 2 names spelled alike, given to 2,777 babies since 1880, Michaelangelo is the most given (51% of them). In 2025 it was given to 20 of their 62 babies (32%), the second most given that year.
| Name | Since 1880 | Births 2025 | Peak year |
|---|---|---|---|
| Michaelangelo | 1,419 | 20 | 1990 |
| Michelangelo | 1,358 | 42 | 2015 |
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Michaelangelo
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Michaelangelo and names like it
- Compare Michaelangelo and MichelangeloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMichaelangelo peaked in 1990.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michaelangelo since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Michaelangelo.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Michaelangelo alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.