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Michael is the only name to rank among the ten most popular across all four generations since Generation X. [6] In 2014, Michael was the 20th most popular name in Northern Ireland, [7] 27th in Canada [8] and 42nd in Australia. [9] In England and Wales, Michael ranked 53rd in 2011 and 2012. [10]
The personal name Michael is ultimately derived from a Hebrew name, meaning "Who is like God". [2] In other cases, the surname is derived from the Middle English (Saxon and Anglian) words michel, mechel, and muchel, meaning "big". In some cases, the surname was adopted as an equivalent of Mulvihill; [1] this English-language surname is derived ...
Mickey (disambiguation), common name derived from Michael; Mike (disambiguation), common name derived from Michael, with other meanings; Micheal, Gaelic name; Michel (disambiguation), French language variant of Michael; Michele (given name), Italian language variant (male given name) Miguel (disambiguation), Spanish and Portuguese language ...
Mick is a masculine given name or nickname, usually a hypocorism of Michael. Because of its popularity in Ireland, it is often used in the English-speaking world as an ethnic slur for Irish people. In Australia, the meaning also broadened to include all Catholics.
In these instances Michel is equivalent to the English personal name Michael, although in Dutch the name Michaël is also common. Mitxel is the Basque form of Michael. When of Czech, Slovak or Polish origin it is a variant of the personal name Michal. When of Greek origin, the surname Michel is a shortened form of various patronymic derivatives ...
The name Australia has been applied to two continents. Originally, it was applied to the south polar continent, or sixth continent, now known as Antarctica.The name is a shortened form of Terra Australis which was one of the names given to the imagined (but undiscovered) land mass that was thought to surround the south pole.
The usual Latin feminine form of the name was Michaela, with Michael the vernacular form for both men and women. The name was given in reference to the archangel Michael, a saint of the Roman Catholic Church. The usual French feminine form of the name was Micheline. The name Michelle was rare until the 20th century.
Michaels is a patronymic surname meaning "son of Michael". The prefix Michael- comes from Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל [miχaˈʔel], meaning "Who is like God?". A common English language surname, it is rare as a given name. There are other spellings. People with the name Michaels include: