Michelangelo — #2533 US boys' name

What the Data Says About Michelangelo

The Social Security Administration has registered 1,316 babies named Michelangelo between 1961 and 2024, spanning 64 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a boy's name, Michelangelo currently holds the #2533 rank among boys for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2015, when 76 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Michelangelo performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 486 births during that ten-year window. Across the 7 decades of recorded activity, Michelangelo shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 263 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Michelangelo in 6 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Michelangelo in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 1,316 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.