# Michiel (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/michiel/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | boys |
| Origin | not recorded |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 1,045 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 1,040 / 5 (0% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 6, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1969 | 5 | 8,244 |

### United States, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 1985 | 6 | 6,259 |
| 1986 | 9 | 4,719 |
| 1988 | 5 | 8,109 |
| 1989 | 5 | 8,798 |
| 1990 | 6 | 7,775 |
| 1991 | 11 | 4,989 |
| 1993 | 6 | 8,335 |
| 1994 | 6 | 8,440 |
| 1995 | 6 | 8,518 |
| 1998 | 6 | 9,243 |
| 1999 | 5 | 11,029 |
| 2000 | 5 | 11,577 |
| 2003 | 5 | 12,121 |
| 2005 | 6 | 11,024 |
| 2006 | 8 | 9,289 |

### England and Wales, boys

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2000 | 3 | 3,036 |
| 2001 | 3 | 3,134 |

## People named Michiel

- Michiel de Ruyter, Dutch admiral (1607-1676)
- Michiel Huisman, Dutch actor (born 1981)
- Michiel Coxie, Flemish painter (1499-1592)
- Michiel Jansz. van Mierevelt, Dutch painter (1566–1641)
- Michiel Bartman, Dutch rower
- Michiel Sweerts, Flemish painter and printmaker (1618–1664)
- Michiel Kramer, Dutch footballer
- Michiel Mol, Dutch businessman (born 1969)
- Michiel Schapers, Dutch tennis player
- Michiel van den Bos, Dutch composer
- Michiel van Musscher, Dutch painter (1645–1705)
- Alexander Willem Michiel Van Hasselt, Dutch physician, naturalist and arachnologist (1814–1902)

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.