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Michelangelo

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Boy · Italian, from Hebrew and Greek

Michelangelo

Say it: mee-keh-LAN-jeh-loh

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Meaning

A compound of Michele (Michael) and Angelo, honouring the archangel Michael; Michael is Hebrew for 'who is like God?'.

Certainscholars agree on this meaning.

Its wave through time

Rare in the records

In the United States

01020304018801900192019401960198020002020Peak 2015per million babies of that sex
  • 1,113 babies given this name since 1961
  • At its height in 2015, about 1 in 25,200 boys
  • 41 babies in 2020

Through the ages

  1. The Renaissance1400 to 1600

Used by

Italian

Famous bearers

  • Michelangelo Buonarroti
  • Michelangelo Merisi da Caravaggio

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Where this comes from

  • Medieval and Renaissance Italian records, such as the Florentine tax survey of 1427
  • United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source

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