Michael

Michael derives from the Hebrew name Mikha'el, meaning who is like God, a rhetorical question implying that no one equals the divine. In the Hebrew Bible, Michael is the name of one of the archangels, described as a protector of Israel, which gave the name enormous religious prestige across Jewish, Christian, and Islamic traditions. Its widespread adoption across Europe produced numerous cognates and variants, including Michel in French, Miguel in Spanish and Portuguese, Mikhail in Russian, Michał in Polish, and Mícheál in Irish. It has ranked among the most popular masculine given names in the Western world throughout the modern era.