Michelangelo
Michelangelo was given to 42 boys in 2025, #2,966 among boys’ names; 1,358 Americans have been recorded with it since 1961 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,320 Americans named Michelangelo and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (97% of everyone recorded); the median is 13 years old and half are between 7 and 27.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michelangelo by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Michelangelo mean?
Wiktionary, Italian section
Michelangelo is “a male given name” Its etymology gives the senses “Michael” (Michele) and “Angel” (Angelo).
From Michele (“Michael”) + Angelo (“Angel”), referring to Michael the Archangel.
/mi.keˈlan.d͡ʒe.lo/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Italian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Michelangelo?
#2,966 among boys’ names, 2025
Michelangelo fell from #1,927 in 2015 to #2,966 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 39.7 to 24.6 per million.
76 babies in 2015, the peak
Michelangelo peaked in 2015, when 76 boys were given it, #1,927 among boys’ names. The 42 births of 2025 are 55% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 42 | #2,966 | 24.6 |
| 2024 | 53 | #2,545 | 30.8 |
| 2023 | 44 | #2,872 | 25.7 |
| 2022 | 54 | #2,544 | 30.9 |
| 2021 | 49 | #2,638 | 28.0 |
| 2020 | 43 | #2,825 | 24.9 |
| 2019 | 49 | #2,647 | 27.3 |
| 2018 | 43 | #2,828 | 23.7 |
| 2017 | 65 | #2,121 | 35.1 |
| 2016 | 42 | #2,871 | 22.1 |
Every recorded year (59)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 76 | #1,927 | 39.7 |
| 2014 | 74 | #1,951 | 38.5 |
| 2013 | 47 | #2,582 | 24.8 |
| 2012 | 27 | #3,852 | 14.2 |
| 2011 | 33 | #3,345 | 17.4 |
| 2010 | 30 | #3,601 | 15.6 |
| 2009 | 24 | #4,232 | 12.1 |
| 2008 | 28 | #3,796 | 13.7 |
| 2007 | 20 | #4,745 | 9.6 |
| 2006 | 25 | #3,958 | 12.2 |
| 2005 | 19 | #4,580 | 9.5 |
| 2004 | 21 | #4,206 | 10.6 |
| 2003 | 22 | #3,919 | 11.1 |
| 2002 | 29 | #3,153 | 14.9 |
| 2001 | 23 | #3,680 | 11.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #4,958 | 7.6 |
| 1999 | 19 | #3,928 | 9.9 |
| 1998 | 19 | #3,799 | 9.9 |
| 1997 | 18 | #3,829 | 9.5 |
| 1996 | 16 | #4,123 | 8.4 |
| 1995 | 15 | #4,197 | 7.9 |
| 1994 | 12 | #5,009 | 6.2 |
| 1993 | 13 | #4,603 | 6.6 |
| 1992 | 12 | #4,758 | 6.0 |
| 1991 | 17 | #3,566 | 8.4 |
| 1990 | 18 | #3,406 | 8.8 |
| 1989 | 11 | #4,706 | 5.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #3,822 | 6.8 |
| 1987 | 9 | #4,814 | 4.8 |
| 1985 | 8 | #5,002 | 4.3 |
| 1984 | 7 | #5,364 | 3.9 |
| 1983 | 7 | #5,281 | 3.9 |
| 1982 | 7 | #5,411 | 3.9 |
| 1980 | 11 | #3,760 | 6.2 |
| 1978 | 7 | #4,873 | 4.3 |
| 1977 | 7 | #4,937 | 4.3 |
| 1976 | 12 | #3,196 | 7.6 |
| 1975 | 11 | #3,366 | 7.0 |
| 1973 | 8 | #3,944 | 5.1 |
| 1972 | 8 | #3,843 | 4.9 |
| 1971 | 10 | #3,288 | 5.7 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,827 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 9 | #3,242 | 5.0 |
| 1968 | 10 | #2,848 | 5.8 |
| 1967 | 8 | #3,156 | 4.6 |
| 1966 | 5 | #4,331 | 2.8 |
| 1965 | 10 | #2,715 | 5.4 |
| 1964 | 7 | #3,501 | 3.5 |
| 1961 | 5 | #4,460 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Michelangelo a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michelangelo 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 Michelangelo: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michelangelo, and how old are they?
1,320 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 97% of the 1,358 Americans ever recorded as Michelangelo. The median Michelangelo alive today is 13 years old; half are between 7 and 27.
The 2020 Census counted 1,087 people named Michelangelo (0 women and girls, 1,087 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,058 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 113 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 158 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 366 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 676 |
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 Michelangelo born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 10 | #1,722 | 0.6× |
| California | 7 | #2,131 | 1.6× |
Where Michelangelo is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Michelangelo is most over-represented in California: since 1961 it was given 1.6 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 Michelangelo 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, Michelangelo is the second most given (49% of them). In 2025 it was given to 42 of their 62 babies (68%), the 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 Michelangelo
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 Michelangelo and names like it
- Compare Michelangelo and MichaelangeloBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMichelangelo peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michelangelo since 1910.
- Italian namesWiktionary’s origin for Michelangelo: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Michelangelo.
- The names of Generation AlphaMost people named Michelangelo alive today were born 2013-2025.
- Names starting with MMost given first.