Michiel
Michiel was last recorded in 2006, when 8 babies were given it; 1,045 Americans have been recorded with it between 1915 and 2006 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michiel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Michiel mean?
Wiktionary, Dutch section
Michiel is “a male given name from Hebrew, equivalent to English Michael”
/mɪˈxil/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Dutch section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Michiel?
Unranked in 2025
Its last boys’ rank on record is #9,283, in 2006; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
39 babies in 1956, the peak
Michiel peaked in 1956, when 39 boys were given it, #1,226 among boys’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 8 | #9,283 | 3.9 |
| 2005 | 6 | #11,017 | 3.0 |
| 2003 | 5 | #12,113 | 2.5 |
| 2000 | 5 | #11,569 | 2.5 |
| 1999 | 5 | #11,021 | 2.6 |
| 1998 | 6 | #9,235 | 3.1 |
| 1995 | 6 | #8,511 | 3.2 |
| 1994 | 6 | #8,434 | 3.1 |
| 1993 | 6 | #8,329 | 3.1 |
| 1991 | 11 | #4,982 | 5.4 |
Every recorded year (63)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1990 | 6 | #7,767 | 2.9 |
| 1989 | 5 | #8,790 | 2.5 |
| 1988 | 5 | #8,102 | 2.6 |
| 1986 | 9 | #4,715 | 4.9 |
| 1985 | 6 | #6,253 | 3.2 |
| 1984 | 9 | #4,433 | 5.0 |
| 1983 | 13 | #3,361 | 7.3 |
| 1982 | 9 | #4,466 | 5.0 |
| 1981 | 10 | #4,045 | 5.6 |
| 1980 | 14 | #3,200 | 7.8 |
| 1979 | 12 | #3,495 | 7.0 |
| 1978 | 11 | #3,541 | 6.7 |
| 1977 | 15 | #2,865 | 9.1 |
| 1976 | 8 | #4,272 | 5.1 |
| 1975 | 13 | #3,017 | 8.3 |
| 1974 | 8 | #4,064 | 5.1 |
| 1973 | 17 | #2,374 | 10.9 |
| 1972 | 19 | #2,129 | 11.7 |
| 1971 | 17 | #2,339 | 9.6 |
| 1970 | 25 | #1,776 | 13.5 |
| 1969 | 20 | #1,896 | 11.2 |
| 1968 | 36 | #1,273 | 20.7 |
| 1967 | 23 | #1,632 | 13.2 |
| 1966 | 18 | #1,862 | 10.1 |
| 1965 | 23 | #1,653 | 12.4 |
| 1964 | 27 | #1,529 | 13.5 |
| 1963 | 25 | #1,618 | 12.3 |
| 1962 | 22 | #1,740 | 10.6 |
| 1961 | 35 | #1,364 | 16.5 |
| 1960 | 32 | #1,418 | 15.0 |
| 1959 | 31 | #1,430 | 14.5 |
| 1958 | 28 | #1,504 | 13.2 |
| 1957 | 31 | #1,423 | 14.4 |
| 1956 | 39 | #1,226 | 18.4 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,303 | 16.5 |
| 1954 | 25 | #1,547 | 12.3 |
| 1953 | 31 | #1,369 | 15.7 |
| 1952 | 26 | #1,506 | 13.4 |
| 1951 | 38 | #1,186 | 20.2 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,283 | 17.9 |
| 1949 | 36 | #1,195 | 20.3 |
| 1948 | 19 | #1,744 | 10.8 |
| 1947 | 18 | #1,831 | 9.8 |
| 1946 | 21 | #1,587 | 12.9 |
| 1945 | 12 | #2,092 | 8.9 |
| 1944 | 12 | #2,156 | 8.8 |
| 1943 | 13 | #2,143 | 9.1 |
| 1942 | 8 | #2,870 | 5.8 |
| 1941 | 6 | #3,384 | 4.9 |
| 1939 | 5 | #3,809 | 4.5 |
| 1938 | 7 | #3,068 | 6.3 |
| 1920 | 7 | #3,710 | 6.6 |
| 1915 | 5 | #4,194 | 5.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Michiel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michiel has been given almost only to boys: 5 girls in 63 years of records.
Girls and boys named Michiel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michiel, and how old are they?
An estimated 766 Americans named Michiel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (73% of everyone recorded); the median is 62 years old and half are between 51 and 70. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 796 people named Michiel (73 women and girls, 723 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 838 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 4,624,047 babies since 1880, Michiel is the sixth most given (<1% of them). In 2025 none of their 8,274 babies recorded by SSA was a Michiel (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Michiel
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 Michiel and names like it
- Compare Michiel and MichaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1950sMichiel peaked in 1956.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Michiel since 1910.
- Hebrew namesWiktionary’s origin for Michiel: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1956The year the most babies were named Michiel.
- The names of the Baby BoomersMost people named Michiel alive today were born 1946-1964.
- Names starting with MMost given first.