Meaning of the nameMichael

Michael is a male name of Hebrew origin, the form of Miguel that keeps the CH spelling, and it means 'who is like God?'.

Meaning

“who is like God?”

Source: Behind the Name: Michael · Wiktionary: Michael

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People (2022): 65,688
Rank in Brazil: #463
Median age: 27 years
2010 Census: 66,277; people

Michael in the 2022 Census

People with the first name Michael, by the decade they were born. In the chart, 70 = the 1970s and 20+ = 2020 to 2022. The largest group was born in the 1990s (26,403 people).

394 women 65,294 men

Source: IBGE, 2022 Demographic Census, Nomes no Brasil. The census counts the first name of people alive in 2022; small counts are not published, and the first group covers everyone born before 1940. How to read these data.

Where the name Michael is most common

States with the highest share of people named Michael in the population, in the 2022 Census.

Sergipe 0.048%
Alagoas 0.042%
São Paulo 0.040%
Distrito Federal 0.040%
Rio de Janeiro 0.038%

All states

State	People	% of population
São Paulo	17,539	0.040%
Minas Gerais	7,289	0.036%
Rio de Janeiro	6,162	0.038%
Paraná	3,618	0.032%
Rio Grande do Sul	3,423	0.032%
Bahia	3,008	0.021%
Goiás	2,424	0.034%
Pernambuco	2,404	0.027%
Santa Catarina	2,328	0.031%
Ceará	2,218	0.025%
Pará	1,810	0.022%
Maranhão	1,664	0.025%
Amazonas	1,330	0.034%
Alagoas	1,313	0.042%
Paraíba	1,176	0.030%
Distrito Federal	1,112	0.040%
Sergipe	1,053	0.048%
Mato Grosso	1,000	0.027%
Espírito Santo	946	0.025%
Rio Grande do Norte	932	0.028%
Mato Grosso do Sul	820	0.030%
Piauí	678	0.021%
Tocantins	404	0.027%
Rondônia	394	0.025%
Roraima	224	0.035%
Amapá	218	0.030%
Acre	201	0.024%

States with fewer than 15 people with the name are not shown: IBGE does not publish those counts.

About the name Michael

Michael comes from the Hebrew Mikhael, which Behind the Name and Wiktionary translate as the question 'who is like God?'; Behind the Name explains that it is a rhetorical question, suggesting that no one is like God. It is the name of the archangel Michael in the Bible. Behind the Name lists Miguel and Micael as Portuguese forms and Maicon as a Brazilian form of the same name. In the 2022 Census, IBGE recorded 65,688 people named Michael, with a median age of 27. The name is almost always male, most of the people recorded were born in the 1980s and 1990s and, proportionally, it is most common in Sergipe.

Sources

Behind the Name: Michael · behindthename.com · meaning
Wiktionary: Michael · en.wiktionary.org · meaning

Questions about the name Michael

What does the name Michael mean?

Michael means “who is like God?”, according to Behind the Name and Wiktionary.

How many people are named Michael in Brazil?

IBGE's 2022 Census recorded 65,688 people with the first name Michael, which ranks it number 463 among the country's names. The largest group was born in the 1990s.

Is Michael a boy's or a girl's name?

Michael is a male name: in the 2022 Census, 394 women and 65,294 men had this name.

What is the origin of the name Michael?

Michael is a name of Hebrew origin. The sources are listed at the end of the page.

In which Brazilian state is Michael most common?

Proportionally, in Sergipe: 0.048% of the state's population is named Michael (1,053 people), according to the 2022 Census.

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