Michel is a unisex first name, but it's given significantly more often to boys than girls.
At least in the US, the name Michel is extremely rare. Recently, only a handful of babies has been named Michel each year. That means it’s extremely unlikely that a boy or girl called Michel will meet someone with the same name. So, Michel is a very special name!
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 first names – 7.4% of all common given names in the US begin with this letter. By the way, the most common first letters for given names are A and J.
With six letters, the name Michel is of average length. In fact, 28% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly six letters. 24% of all first names are shorter, while 48% have seven 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 6.3% of all first names that begin with an M, this first letter is much more common than the other letters on average.
If your name is Michel 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 Michel, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Cat
Hat
Elephant
Lion
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Michel
Michel
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
C
H
E
L
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.
M
I
C
H
E
L
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. Michel sounds like this:
