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Michelangelo

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Michelangelo is outside the top 1,000 in 2024, with 53 births. It has never entered the top 1,000.

Rank in 2024
outside the top 1,000
Births in 2024
530.00% of boys
Peak year
201576 births
Best rank
never in the top 1,000
Since 1961
1,316people given the name
Babies named Michelangelo, by year of birthboys
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The story in the numbers

1,316 boys have been named Michelangelo in the United States since 1961, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 2015, with 76 births.

It is holding steady: its share of births has moved by less than half in either direction over ten years.

Half of everyone given the name was born by 2012, and the 2010s alone account for 37%.

By decade

Decadeboys named Michelangelo
1960s54
1970s75
1980s73
1990s159
2000s226
2010s486
2020s243

In 2015, its biggest year

Michelangelo was outside the top 1,000 that year. The top five boys’ names of 2015 were Noah, Liam, Mason, Jacob and William. See all of 2015.

Names that rose and fell with Michelangelo

Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.

What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.