Mihail

given name · Russian · Latin script

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

Mihail is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Russian and Romanian, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ (Mixailŭ), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 43
  • FIFinland1 in 52

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

≈6.3M ●

across 12 countries

#9 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
656 ●

65M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MichaelLatin · English●45M records
МихаилCyrillic · Russian●13M records
מיכאלHebrew · Hebrew●444K records
ᲛიხეილGeorgian · Georgian●55K records
ไมเคิลThai · Thai●3.1K records
ΜιχαήλGreek · Greek●155 records
মাইকেলBengali · Bangla●143 records
미카엘Hangul · Korean●27 records
ՄիխայիլArmenian · Armenian●6 records
ମାଇକେଲOdia · Odia●0 records

11 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 15 more, Михаил in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Mikael in FI Finland, SE Sweden and Михайло in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Derivation of Mihail: each step is the form the one above it came from.
Mihail
  1. Old Church SlavonicМихаилъMixailŭ●
  2. Ancient GreekΜιχαήλMikhaḗl●
  3. Hebrewמִיכָאֵלmīḵāʾēl“Michael”●

Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ (Mixailŭ), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).

Sources 3

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mihail is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#2113,284,4114.2M rec.—#8Михаил244
UA Ukraine#234,587,4624.6M rec.—listedМихайло117
US United States#33,469,43443M rec.1 in 963.5MMichael656
GB United Kingdom#42,842,1172.4M rec.—626Michael373
DE Germany#31,639,8761.5M rec.—6Michael363
AU Australia#21,532,8441.1M rec.—121Michael379
CU Cuba#61,016,44718K rec.——Michael36
CA Canada#2934,497863K rec.—58Michael323
FR France#17820,6151.1M rec.1 in 83821KMickael416
PH Philippines#6816,562582K rec.—listedMichael220
BR Brazil#363715,241△123K rec.1 in 296715KMichael208
PL Poland#9492,326△208K rec.1 in 78492KMichał254

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

Languages●

  • Russian90K33%
  • Romanian84K31%
  • English30K11%
  • Bulgarian21K8%
  • Polish8.5K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Russian90,30133%
Romanian83,98331%
English29,91411%
Bulgarian21,0998%
Polish8,4993%

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◐

Mihail is also recorded as 3 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • French given name6.6K records spelled Mihail4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Spain, Belgium, Côte d’Ivoire

    Languages: French, Catalan

    Also written Mihaïl, Mihaiĺ

  • a separate given name1.0K records spelled Mihail6 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, United States, Romania, Moldova

    Also written Mihai̲l, Mìhaìl, Mihaïl, Míhaíl, Mih̲ā̄il

  • Arabic given name1.0K records spelled Mihail3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Russia, Ukraine, Türkiye, Moldova

    Also written Mihaïl

47 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●

05101520002010202014 · 2010

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Mihail in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1996–2025
Yearrecords
19966
19985
19995
20025
20037
20045
20058
20065
20077
20088
200911
201014
20115
20127
20137
20159
20169
20176
20185
20199
202010
20217
20225
20238
20247
20257

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 26 years between 1996–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1850190019502000Franz von Papen, b. 1879Michael Bond, b. 1926Michael Collins, b. 1930Michael Caine, b. 1933Mikhail Tal, b. 1936Michael Douglas, b. 1944Ozzy Osbourne, b. 1948Michael Keaton, b. 1951Michael Ballack, b. 1976Michael Owen, b. 1976
  • Franz von Papenb. 1879DEnot in their usual nameGerman general staff officer, politician, diplomat, nobleman and Chancellor of Germany (1879–1969)
  • Michael Bondb. 1926GBnot in their usual nameBritish writer (1926–2017)
  • Michael Collinsb. 1930USnot in their usual nameAmerican astronaut (1930–2021)
  • Michael Caineb. 1933GBnot in their usual nameEnglish actor (born 1933)
  • Mikhail Talb. 1936LVnot in their usual nameSoviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)
  • Michael Douglasb. 1944USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor, producer and activist (born 1944)
  • Ozzy Osbourneb. 1948GBnot in their usual nameEnglish musician and television personality (1948–2025)
  • Michael Keatonb. 1951USnot in their usual nameAmerican actor
  • Michael Ballackb. 1976DEnot in their usual nameGerman association football player (born 1976)
  • Michael Owenb. 1976GBnot in their usual nameEnglish association football player

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 64 sources across 33 countries.

Official registers attesting Mihail
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—68K#7
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20)20262.1K#337
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—1.9K#344
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.2K#10,646
ES SpainINE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos)—1.1K#2,746
ES SpainINE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal)—1K#1,236
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—764#1,696
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—403#330
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—370#3,075
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—317—
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—273#4,163
MD MoldovaASP Moldova — Nou-Născuți (Newborn Name Statistics)2024250#12

Reference works 3

  • 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 · 200 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mihail?
We estimate roughly 6.3 million people bear Mihail (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Mihail have the most bearers?
Mihail is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled михаил.
How common is Mihail compared with other names?
In Russia, Mihail is the 21st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Mihail a male or female name?
Mihail 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 Mihail mean?
Recorded meaning: Borrowed from Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ (Mixailŭ), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).
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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, “Mihail” — the 21st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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