Micheal is a first name typically given to boys, but in rare cases also used as a girls name.
The name Micheal isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all boys names, Micheal ranks 837. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn boys, approximately 1 were named Micheal. In the entire USA, approximately 150,088 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Micheal. That is 0.04 % of all living Americans.
Micheal is the English form of Mícheál, the Irish variant of Michael. It has been used for severals centuries in Ireland and has, by immigration of the Irish to America, also a long tradition here. Michael is of Hebrew origin and means ‘who is like God?’.
Several celebrities bear... the name Micheal, like American rappers Tyga and Eyedea, for example.
Appearing throughout the time in the United States, the name Micheal is a staple in the country: Boys have been given the name Micheal for more than 140 years, according to official U.S. naming statistics. Micheal is therefore one of only 442 boys’ names that have been given every year since 1880. Even beyond that, Micheal is a very special name that peaked in popularity some time ago in the 20th century. Placed at #82 Micheal easily made it into the top 100 boys' names of our SmartGenius statistics for male first names and has never been more popular than back in 1956.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Micheal was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
The name Micheal may not be in the top rankings of the most popular boys’ names, but it is one of the few male given names, along with only 385 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Micheal is apparently especially popular in Mississippi. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular men’s names here either, one in 560 men in Mississippi is called Micheal. In total, that’s 3,569 people who feel addressed when the name Micheal is shouted loudly across Mississippi and who ensure that their name makes it to #123 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common male names in this nice state. If you asked all people in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Micheal as the answer a total of 150,088 times. This places Micheal at #214 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular male names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living people across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Micheal as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a particularly popular initial letter for boys’ names – 6.2% of all common boys’ names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for boys’ names are J and A.
With seven letters, the name Micheal has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
That means that with 6.2% of all boys' names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average. If you are now wondering which boys’ name with M is the most common... the answer is Michael.
If your name is Micheal and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Micheal, you can simply say:
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Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
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Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
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In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Micheal sounds like this:
