Mihaela

given name · Romanian · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mihaela is a given name, most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is the 66th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Romanian and Spanish, written in the Latin script.

rarermore common
  • MDMoldova1 in 218◐
  • RORomania1 in 773
  • ITItaly1 in 5K

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈32K ●

across 13 countries

Sources
232 ●

85K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 218 ◐

Moldova

Meaning & origin

No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.

Sources 1

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Mihaela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RO Romania#6640,78931K rec.——Mihaela171
MD Moldova#6215,457△844 rec.1 in 21815KMihaela51
IT Italy#59410,19712K rec.—3Mihaela100
HR Croatia—5,598△3 rec.1 in 7555.9K—3
ES Spain—4,86711K rec.1 in 10K5KMihaela101
DE Germany—4,6125K rec.—1Mihaela114
GB United Kingdom—4,2543.8K rec.—listedMihaela110
US United States—2,08414K rec.1 in 160K2.1KMihaela232
SI Slovenia—2,036△28 rec.1 in 1K2K—14
AT Austria—1,054779 rec.—70Mihaela59
CA Canada—999965 rec.—1Mihaela72
AU Australia—830806 rec.—1Mihaela61

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Romanian80K34%
  • Spanish44K19%
  • Croatian40K17%
  • English13K6%
  • French11K5%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Romanian80,13234%
Spanish43,55819%
Croatian39,56017%
English13,4036%
French11,0475%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Mihaela is also recorded as 4 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Spanish given name50K records spelled Mihaela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Spain, Romania, United States, Italy

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mihaelą, Míhaela

  • French given name18K records spelled Mihaela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Romania

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mihaéla, Mihaëla

  • Hungarian given name5.3K records spelled Mihaela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovenia, Romania, Hungary, Italy

    Also written Mihaéla

  • a separate given name2.1K records spelled Mihaela2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Romania, United States, Canada, United Kingdom

    Also written Mihăela

48 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Over time●

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Mihaela in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199990
200091
200196
2002101
2003107
2004115
2005123
2006130
2007160
2008182
2009187
2010201
2011222
2012238
2013255
2014275
2015293
2016309
2017326
2018346
2019363
2020374

SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 22 years between 1999–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Mihaela Peneș, b. 1947Mihaela Loghin, b. 1952Mihaela Armășescu, b. 1963Mihaela Stănuleț, b. 1967Mihaela Radulescu, b. 1969Mihaela Ciobanu, b. 1973Mihaela Melinte, b. 1975Mihaela Buzărnescu, b. 1988Michaëlla Krajicek, b. 1989Mihaela Petrilă, b. 1991

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 57 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Mihaela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—15K#80
HR CroatiaDZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021)20215.9K—
HR CroatiaDZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form)20215.6K#191
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—5K#456
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—4.9K#900
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20082.4K#108
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20092.4K#107
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20102.4K#110
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20112.4K#110
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20202.1K#7,352
SI SloveniaSURS — resident population given names20252K#131
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—2K#250

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 180 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mihaela?
We estimate roughly 32 thousand people bear Mihaela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 13 countries in our records.
In which country does Mihaela have the most bearers?
Mihaela is most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is most often spelled mihaela.
Where is Mihaela most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mihaela is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 218 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
How common is Mihaela compared with other names?
In Romania, Mihaela is the 66th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
Is Mihaela a male or female name?
Mihaela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mihaela” — the 66th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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