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Baby name
Michael
Boy
Origin of the name
Michael comes, through Latin, from the Hebrew mikha'el, “Who is like God?” In the Bible, Michael is an archangel.
Classic name
4,426,753births since 1880
1950sgeneration
No. 1rank at its peak, in 1957
Where babies named Michael are born
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The darker the blue, the more common Michael is in the state, compared with its births. White: no births published that year.
Where it is most popular
Compared with the national average, Michael is most common in Rhode Island (1.5 times), District of Columbia (1.5) and Connecticut (1.4), taking into account all births in each state since 1910.
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