# Michael ⚽🏈

Michael or Micheal is a biblical masculine theophoric given name that comes from Hebrew: מִיכָאֵל / מיכאל‎ or Aramaic: ܡܝܟܐܝܠ (Mīkhāʼēl [miχaˈʔel]), derived from the rhetorical question "Who [is] like [the Hebrew God] El?]]", whose answer is “there is none like El”, "there is none as famous and powerful as god" (cf with the Latin language Quis ut Deus?). The Hebrew grammatical 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, Michiels, Michalka, Michels, Mihály, Mikeladze, Mikhaylov, Mikkelsen, Mitchell, Michalski, Mykhaylenko and Mikaelyan.