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Last name: MICHEL

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All you have to know about the last name MICHEL

Last name frequency

MICHEL : This last name is indexed 4,772,892 times on Geneanet!

Origin of last name

MICHEL : 1: French Walloon German Dutch West Indian (mainly Haiti) Seychellois and Mauritian: from the personal name Michel (see Michael).2: Basque: Castilianized form of Mitxel from the personal name Mitxel an equivalent of Michael.3: Polish: from a variant of the personal name Michał (see Michael).4: Germanized form of Sorbian Michał Czech and Slovak Michal ‘Michael’.5: English and Scottish: variant of Mitchell.6: American shortened form of Greek patronymics from the personal name Michael e.g. Michelakis Michelakakis or Michelakos.

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Most indexed places

Paris (70,412)
Allauch (42,830)
Lyon (19,091)
Marseille (18,467)
Nîmes (15,641)
Allauch, 13190 (15,583)
Gard (15,348)
Allauch, 13002 (12,853)
Meuse (10,896)
Allauch,13190 (10,644)
France (9,122)
Provence-Alpes-Côte D'azur (7,709)
Orbey (7,549)
Troyes (7,438)
Peynier (7,222)
Marseille, 13000 (6,811)
Allos (6,633)
Marseille, 13055 (6,274)
Sisteron (6,265)
Gérardmer, 88196 (5,997)
Lille (5,968)
Aubagne (5,690)
Suin (5,537)
Lambesc (5,530)
Trets (5,368)
Québec (5,239)
Gérardmer, 88400 (4,926)
Ubraye (4,826)
Aspremont (4,685)
Aix-en-Provence, Madeleine (4,633)
Salon-de-Provence (4,520)
Fuveau (4,455)
Montpellier (4,430)
Chaux-du-Dombief (La) (4,405)
Caen (4,402)
Gérardmer (4,395)
Strasbourg (4,259)
La Ciotat (4,235)
Aix-en-Provence (4,163)
Gevingey (4,078)
Nancy (4,059)
Liège (4,049)
Auriol (3,998)
Beaucaire (3,951)
Aigues-Mortes (3,887)
Paris 18e (3,780)
Paris 10e (3,673)
Jouques (3,533)
Plérin (3,510)
Alès (3,459)
Paris 11e (3,439)
Egnach (3,413)
Suin, 71220 (3,237)
Avignon (3,188)
Paris 14e (3,140)
Toulon (3,080)
Aix-en-Provence, Saint-Sauveur (3,045)
Sumène (2,964)
Boulbon (2,942)
Versailles (2,892)

Most indexed countries

France (3,881,553)
Belgium (125,837)
Canada (88,008)
Germany (79,910)
Switzerland (31,434)
United States (19,911)
United Kingdom (15,143)
Netherlands (14,168)
Algeria (9,896)
Austria (7,425)
Martinique (4,320)
Réunion (2,903)
Guadeloupe (2,772)
Italy (2,565)
Luxembourg (2,145)
Spain (1,965)
Mexico (1,752)
Finland (1,720)

Available collections for this name

Family Trees
(2,688,083)
Archives
(1,753,025)
Newspapers
(161,810)
Obituaries
(56,867)
Other
(42,373)
Books
(38,821)
Cemeteries
(14,346)
Magazines
(12,889)
Memorials
(3,654)
Coats of Arms
(972)
Memory of places
(52)