Miquel

Meaning of Miquel

Miquel unfolds like a sunlit tapestry woven across Catalonia and Spain, a unisex gem that traces its lineage to the timeless Michael and carries the meaning “Who is like God?” With its lyrical roll—pronounced mee-KEHL in Catalan and mee-KEL in Spanish—the name conjures archangel Michael’s noble shield and the artistic verve of painter Joan Miquel Barceló. In the United States, Miquel has gently danced through the top thousand, enchanting eight newborns in 2023 after earlier crescendos (including a quietly memorable spell in the early ’90s), with a wink of mischievous uniqueness that keeps it feeling both steeped in tradition and delightfully fresh.