michael

Michael is a masculine given name that comes from Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל (Mīkhāʼēl [miχaˈʔel]), derived from the rhetorical question "Who [is] like [the Hebrew God] El?]]", whose answer is “there is none like El”, (cf with the Latin language Quis ut Deus?). The Hebrew gramatical components of the name are מי כאל mī kāʼēl, “Who [is] like-El”.
Patronymic surnames that come from Michael include Carmichael, DiMichele, MacMichael, McMichael, Michaels, Micallef, Michaelson, Michalka, Michels, Mihály, Mikeladze, Mikhaylov, Mikkelsen, Mitchell, Michalski, Mykhaylenko and Mikaelyan.

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