Migel
Migel was given to 5 boys in 2025, #13,252 among boys’ names; 1,718 Americans have been recorded with it since 1920 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,500 Americans named Migel and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (87% of everyone recorded); the median is 34 years old and half are between 26 and 45.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Migel by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Migel?
#13,252 among boys’ names, 2025
Migel rose from #13,388 in 2015 to #13,252 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born rose from 2.6 to 2.9 per million.
52 babies in 1993, the peak
Migel peaked in 1993, when 52 boys were given it, #1,686 among boys’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 10% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #13,252 | 2.9 |
| 2021 | 7 | #10,421 | 4.0 |
| 2015 | 5 | #13,388 | 2.6 |
| 2014 | 6 | #11,662 | 3.1 |
| 2013 | 6 | #11,689 | 3.2 |
| 2012 | 12 | #6,890 | 6.3 |
| 2011 | 10 | #7,891 | 5.3 |
| 2010 | 21 | #4,629 | 10.9 |
| 2009 | 20 | #4,866 | 10.1 |
| 2008 | 34 | #3,322 | 16.7 |
Every recorded year (85)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2007 | 34 | #3,286 | 16.4 |
| 2006 | 39 | #2,912 | 19.0 |
| 2005 | 35 | #2,992 | 17.5 |
| 2004 | 31 | #3,191 | 15.6 |
| 2003 | 29 | #3,244 | 14.7 |
| 2002 | 38 | #2,581 | 19.6 |
| 2001 | 41 | #2,406 | 21.1 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,113 | 24.4 |
| 1999 | 44 | #2,154 | 22.9 |
| 1998 | 34 | #2,536 | 17.8 |
| 1997 | 47 | #1,946 | 24.9 |
| 1996 | 35 | #2,315 | 18.5 |
| 1995 | 40 | #2,076 | 21.0 |
| 1994 | 50 | #1,760 | 25.9 |
| 1993 | 52 | #1,686 | 26.5 |
| 1992 | 51 | #1,685 | 25.5 |
| 1991 | 51 | #1,634 | 25.2 |
| 1990 | 45 | #1,767 | 21.9 |
| 1989 | 37 | #1,975 | 18.5 |
| 1988 | 36 | #1,865 | 18.8 |
| 1987 | 37 | #1,778 | 19.8 |
| 1986 | 26 | #2,200 | 14.1 |
| 1985 | 33 | #1,825 | 17.9 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,341 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 40 | #1,525 | 22.3 |
| 1982 | 45 | #1,432 | 24.8 |
| 1981 | 40 | #1,536 | 22.3 |
| 1980 | 29 | #1,941 | 16.3 |
| 1979 | 26 | #2,029 | 15.1 |
| 1978 | 20 | #2,343 | 12.2 |
| 1977 | 22 | #2,183 | 13.4 |
| 1976 | 27 | #1,858 | 17.2 |
| 1975 | 23 | #2,042 | 14.7 |
| 1974 | 20 | #2,177 | 12.7 |
| 1973 | 15 | #2,571 | 9.6 |
| 1972 | 22 | #1,953 | 13.6 |
| 1971 | 18 | #2,249 | 10.2 |
| 1970 | 12 | #2,828 | 6.5 |
| 1969 | 7 | #3,816 | 3.9 |
| 1968 | 14 | #2,267 | 8.1 |
| 1967 | 11 | #2,565 | 6.3 |
| 1966 | 13 | #2,300 | 7.3 |
| 1964 | 6 | #3,897 | 3.0 |
| 1962 | 11 | #2,620 | 5.3 |
| 1960 | 5 | #4,415 | 2.3 |
| 1959 | 10 | #2,765 | 4.7 |
| 1958 | 10 | #2,753 | 4.7 |
| 1957 | 13 | #2,345 | 6.0 |
| 1956 | 5 | #4,295 | 2.4 |
| 1955 | 8 | #3,128 | 3.9 |
| 1954 | 8 | #3,100 | 3.9 |
| 1953 | 10 | #2,655 | 5.1 |
| 1952 | 9 | #2,813 | 4.6 |
| 1951 | 10 | #2,603 | 5.3 |
| 1949 | 8 | #2,938 | 4.5 |
| 1948 | 9 | #2,727 | 5.1 |
| 1947 | 6 | #3,623 | 3.3 |
| 1946 | 5 | #3,850 | 3.1 |
| 1945 | 5 | #3,624 | 3.7 |
| 1943 | 8 | #2,886 | 5.6 |
| 1942 | 5 | #3,901 | 3.6 |
| 1941 | 8 | #2,809 | 6.5 |
| 1938 | 6 | #3,408 | 5.4 |
| 1936 | 7 | #3,064 | 6.7 |
| 1934 | 5 | #4,032 | 4.8 |
| 1932 | 6 | #3,638 | 5.7 |
| 1931 | 10 | #2,589 | 9.6 |
| 1930 | 8 | #3,193 | 7.3 |
| 1929 | 13 | #2,281 | 12.1 |
| 1928 | 7 | #3,593 | 6.3 |
| 1927 | 10 | #2,841 | 8.9 |
| 1925 | 5 | #4,670 | 4.5 |
| 1923 | 7 | #3,700 | 6.4 |
| 1922 | 5 | #4,744 | 4.6 |
| 1920 | 5 | #4,741 | 4.7 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Migel a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Migel has been recorded only for boys: SSA lists no girls with the name in 85 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Migel: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Migel, and how old are they?
1,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 87% of the 1,718 Americans ever recorded as Migel. The median Migel alive today is 34 years old; half are between 26 and 45.
The 2020 Census counted 1,327 people named Migel (10 women and girls, 1,317 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,530 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 14 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 87 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 250 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 609 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 508 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 29 |
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 Migel born?
The states with the most babies named Migel are California, Texas and Illinois, with 99% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 489 | not ranked | 2.4× |
| Texas | 222 | not ranked | 1.6× |
| Illinois | 18 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Colorado | 5 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Florida | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Migel is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Migel is most over-represented in California: since 1920 it was given 2.4 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 Migel 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 193,280 babies since 1880, Migel is the second most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,666 babies (<1%), again the second most given.
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 Migel
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 Migel and names like it
- Compare Migel and MiguelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMigel peaked in 1993.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Migel since 1910.
- The top names of 1993The year the most babies were named Migel.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Migel alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.