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How popular is the name Michelangelo?

Births per year, rank history and how many Michelangelos are alive today.

Michelangelo (male) is a rare boys' name in England and Wales, ranked 4271st in 2024 and given to 4 babies. The name peaked in 2020, when 6 babies were given the name, the 2960th most popular that year.

The Michelangelo you are most likely to meet is around 5 years old. Half of all Michelangelos born in England and Wales are between 5 and 15, and there are at least 71 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 males, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Michelangelo - on average, only one in every 4,268 such rooms contains a Michelangelo.

How many babies are named Michelangelo each year?

Where does Michelangelo rank among boys' names?

Where this data comes from

Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.

One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.