Where the spelling 미겔 comes from
NIKL’s list of loanword spellings (외래어 표기 용례) gives 미겔 for Miguel.
People in the list with this given name:
- 디아스, 미겔 — Miguel H. Diaz
Why it is spelled this way
- Matches the spelling in the National Institute of Korean Language loanword usage list.
Other possible spellings
미겔 is also NIKL’s spelling of the Spanish name Miguel.
What Miguel means
Miguel by the numbers
- US Social Security birth records, 2000–2025: No. 214, 84,724 babies (0.2% girls, 99.8% boys).
- NIKL usage list — people with the given name 미겔: 1.
Korean names for Miguel
These are the converter’s results for Miguel as a boy’s name — real Korean given names from the Supreme Court’s birth statistics (2008–2025).
Sounds like mine
Closest in sound among real Korean names.
이민기Lee MingiBoy’s name · 66% sound match
이민건Lee MingeonBoy’s name · 64% sound match민 珉 stone resembling jade건 健 strong, robust, healthy
이민재Lee MinjaeBoy’s name · 57% sound match
No surname given, so we picked 이, one of the three most common Korean surnames.
Sources: US Social Security Administration baby names · NIKL loanword usage list · Loanword Orthography (외래어 표기법) · Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0) · Supreme Court of Korea birth statistics