Mihai
given name · Romanian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihai is a given name, most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is the 67th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Romanian and Spanish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name comparable to Michael.
- MDMoldova1 in 419◐
- RORomania1 in 779
- ITItaly1 in 9.7K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈14K ●
- Sources
- 250 ●
- 1 in 419 ◐
across 12 countries
70K records
Official registry-verified
Moldova
Meaning & origin●
a male given name comparable to Michael
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world●
Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #67 | 40,476 | 36K rec. | — | — | Mihai | 171 |
| MD Moldova | #90 | 8,027△ | 1.6K rec. | 1 in 419 | 8K | Mihai | 57 |
| IT Italy | #905 | 5,198 | 8.1K rec. | — | 6 | Mihai | 94 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 3,659 | 3.4K rec. | — | — | Mihai | 132 |
| ES Spain | — | 2,997 | 7K rec. | 1 in 17K | 3.1K | Mihai | 100 |
| US United States | — | 1,552 | 9.7K rec. | 1 in 214K | 1.6K | Mihai | 250 |
| BE Belgium | — | 749 | 1.1K rec. | — | 815 | Mihai | 57 |
| CA Canada | — | 644 | 724 rec. | — | 1 | Mihai | 85 |
| SE Sweden | — | 638△ | 293 rec. | 1 in 16K | 638 | Mihai | 36 |
| PL Poland | — | 436△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 88K | 436 | — | 1 |
| DK Denmark | — | 416 | — | 1 in 14K | 416 | — | — |
| RU Russia | — | 277 | 315 rec. | — | — | Mihai | 42 |
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Romanian72K49%
- Spanish28K19%
- English11K7%
- French10K7%
- German5.3K4%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Romanian | 72,172 | 49% |
| Spanish | 27,570 | 19% |
| English | 11,017 | 7% |
| French | 10,110 | 7% |
| German | 5,268 | 4% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Other recorded senses●
Mihai is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Romanian form of MICHAEL .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 1999 | 74 |
| 2000 | 72 |
| 2001 | 73 |
| 2002 | 75 |
| 2003 | 78 |
| 2004 | 79 |
| 2005 | 78 |
| 2006 | 83 |
| 2007 | 124 |
| 2008 | 151 |
| 2009 | 154 |
| 2010 | 171 |
| 2011 | 185 |
| 2012 | 206 |
| 2013 | 219 |
| 2014 | 233 |
| 2015 | 244 |
| 2016 | 264 |
| 2017 | 280 |
| 2018 | 297 |
| 2019 | 305 |
| 2020 | 309 |
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●
- Mihai Viteazulb. 1558RORomanian prince and voivode of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia (1558–1601)
- Mihai Eminescub. 1850RORomanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850-1889)
- Michael I of Romaniab. 1921CHnot in their usual namelast king of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)
- Mihai Ghimpub. 1951MDMoldovan politician
- Michael Cretub. 1957DEnot in their usual nameRomanian–German musician, singer, songwriter, and producer
- Mihai Tudoseb. 1967RO66th Prime Minister of Romania (2017-2018)
- Mihai Răzvan Ungureanub. 1968RO62nd Prime Minister of Romania (2012)
- Sorin Grindeanub. 1973ROnot in their usual name65th Prime Minister of Romania (2017)
- Mihai Mălaimareb. 1975RORomanian cinematographer
- Mihai Trăistariub. 1979RORomanian singer
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 60 sources across 30 countries.
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 · 173 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mihai?
- We estimate roughly 14 thousand people bear Mihai (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mihai have the most bearers?
- Mihai is most frequently recorded in Romania, where it is most often spelled mihai.
- Where is Mihai most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mihai is densest in Moldova — about 1 in 419 people — even though Romania holds more of our records for it.
- How common is Mihai compared with other names?
- In Romania, Mihai is the 67th most common given name of 29,954 given names recorded there.
- Is Mihai a male or female name?
- Mihai is a male 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.
- What does the name Mihai mean?
- Recorded meaning: a male given name comparable to Michael
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About this data
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, “Mihai” — the 67th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.