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13-749: Micheal is a masculine given name. It is sometimes an anglicized form of the Irish names Micheál , Mícheál and Michéal ; or the Scottish Gaelic name Mìcheal . It is also a spelling variant of the common masculine given name Mich ae l , and is sometimes considered erroneous. Michael (given name) Michael is a usually masculine given name derived from the Hebrew phrase מי כאל mī kāʼēl , 'Who [is] like-El', in Aramaic : ܡܝܟܐܝܠ ( Mīkhāʼēl [miχaˈʔel] ). The theophoric name
26-575: Is دَاوُۥد Dāwūd or Dā'ūd . David was adopted as a Christian name from an early period, e.g. David of Wales (6th century), David Saharuni (7th century), David I of Iberia (9th century). Name days are celebrated on 8 February (for David IV of Georgia ), 1 March (for St. David of Wales ) and 29 December (for King David ), as well as 25 June ( St. David of Sweden ), 26 June, 9 July ( Russia ), 26 August, 11 December and 30 December (Hungary, Latvia , Norway, Czech Republic ). The oldest, most popular and most commonly used diminutive form in
39-499: Is a common masculine given name of Hebrew origin. Its popularity derives from the initial oral tradition ( Oral Torah ) and recorded use related to King David, a central figure in the Torah and foundational to Judaism , and subsequently significant in the religious traditions of Christianity and Islam . David ( Hebrew : דָּוִד , Modern : David , Tiberian : Dāwîḏ ) means ' beloved ' , derived from
52-565: Is most often a masculine name, it is also given to women, such as the actresses Michael Michele and Michael Learned , and Michael Steele , the former bassist for the Bangles . Patronymic surnames that come from Michael include Carmichael , DiMichele , MacMichael , McMichael , Michaels , Micallef , Michaelson , Michiels , Michalka , Michels , Miguélez , Mihály , Mikeladze , Mikhaylov , Mikkelsen , Mitchell , Michalski , Mykhaylenko and Mikaelyan . The name first appears in
65-535: Is often read as a rhetorical question – "Who [is] like [the Hebrew God] El ?", whose answer is "there is none like El", or "there is none as famous and powerful as God." This question is known in Latin as Quis ut Deus? Paradoxically, the name is also sometimes interpreted as, "One who is like God." Although sometimes considered erroneous, an alternative spelling of the name is Micheal . While Michael
78-612: Is the feast day of the three archangels: Michael, Gabriel and Raphael . For the Orthodox Church, 8 November is the feast day commemorating the archangels Michael and Gabriel, as well as the whole host of angels , while the Monday of each liturgical week likewise corresponds to the "Bodiless Powers." In the Coptic Orthodox Church , his main feast days are 12 Hathor and 12 Paoni , with lesser feast days on
91-866: The Hebrew Bible in the Book of Numbers 13:13 , where Sethur the son of Michael is one of 12 spies sent into the Land of Canaan . Michael is the name of an archangel in the Book of Daniel 12:1 . The archangel Michael is venerated in the Roman Catholic Church , the Oriental Orthodox Church , and the Eastern Orthodox Church . For the Roman Catholic Church, 29 September
104-504: The 12th day of each month of the Coptic calendar . According to Islam, Michael (Mika'el) is an archangel who brings down rain to the earth by the decree of Allah . He was created from light and the one entrusted with the sustenance of creatures, and is also one of the most prominent angels. As the Angel of Mercy, he asks Allah to forgive people’s sins. Michael (and its variants) is one of
117-532: The English speaking countries of David is Dav, which first appeared in written form in the 16th century. The nickname Dav or Dave has been used as a name in its own right in the 19th and 20th centuries, at least in the United States. At the height of its popularity in the 1950s and early 1960s, the name Dave was bestowed upon more than 3,000 infants each year. Other common English-language hypocorisms of
130-874: The eighth most popular name for boys in Ireland in 2013. According to the SSA , Michael is the most popular name among people in the United States who are currently alive, belonging to an estimated 3.83 million living people as of 2021. Variants of Michael rank among the most popular masculine names in multiple countries. It was the third most popular in Finland from 2010 – March 2015 (as Mikael), seventh in Russia in 2009 (as Mikhail), 14th in Spain in 2012 (as Miguel), and 15th in Denmark (as Mikkel). David (name) David
143-738: The most common given names for men in the world. In the United States, Michael was the most popular name of the 20th century, ranking No. 1 from 1954 to 1998 (with the exception of 1960, when it was second to David ). It was among the top three most popular names for each year since 1953, only falling out of the top five in 2011 for the first time since 1949. In 2014, Michael was the 20th most popular name in Northern Ireland , 27th in Canada and 42nd in Australia . In England and Wales , Michael ranked 53rd in 2011 and 2012. Michael ranked as
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#1732794524900156-522: The name David are Dave, Dav, Davey, Davie, Davo, Davs, Davis, Daviey, and Davy. The Welsh Dafydd is also abbreviated Dewi , Dai and Daf. In Ashkenazi Jewish culture, common hypocorisms of Dovid are Dovi and Dov. Dudi is a common hypocorism in Modern Hebrew. Davo is also used as a nickname, and is quite common in Australia and Armenia , while the nickname Dato (for Davit) is popular in
169-670: The root dôwd ( דּוֹד ), which originally meant ' to boil ' , but survives in Biblical Hebrew only in the figurative usage ' to love ' ; specifically, it is a term for an uncle or figuratively, a lover/beloved (it is used in this way in the Song of Songs : אני לדודי ודודי לי , ' I am for my beloved and my beloved is for me ' ). In Christian tradition, the name was adopted as Syriac : ܕܘܝܕ Dawid , Greek Δαυίδ , Latin Davidus or David . The Quranic spelling
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