Italian · Boy name
Michele
“who is like God?”
About the name Michele
Michele is the Italian form of Michael, from the Hebrew Mikha’el, a rhetorical question meaning who is like God? It honours the archangel Michael, venerated in Italy at the cave sanctuary of Monte Sant’Angelo in Apulia and at the abbey of Sacra di San Michele in Piedmont. In Italian the name is masculine and is pronounced with a hard k sound, whereas in English the same spelling usually represents a feminine form of Michelle. The renaissance architect Michele Sanmicheli of Verona is an Italian bearer.
- Meaning
- who is like God?
- Origin
- Italian
- Gender
- Boy
- Pronunciation
- mee-KEH-leh(3 syl.)
Variants and spellings
No common variant spellings are widely recorded.
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Middle names for Michele
- Michele Giovanni
- Michele Antonio
- Michele Luca
- Michele James
- Michele Alessandro
Questions about Michele
- What does Michele mean?
- Michele is an Italian name meaning "who is like God?".
- How do you pronounce Michele?
- Michele is pronounced mee-KEH-leh, with emphasis on the second syllable.
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