Mihails
given name · Latvian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihails is a given name, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 56th most common given name. It appears chiefly in Latvian and English, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl).
- LVLatvia1 in 246◐
- EEEstonia1 in 31K
- ISIceland1 in 32K
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈7.8K ●
- Sources
- 75 ●
- 1 in 246 ◐
across 7 countries
1.3K records
Official registry-verified
Latvia
Meaning & origin●
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 19 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | #56 | 7,654△ | 914 rec. | 1 in 246 | 7.7K | Mihails | 75 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | 275 | 108 rec. | — | listed | Mihails | 48 |
| FI Finland | — | 144 | 4 rec. | — | 144 | Mihails | 5 |
| EE Estonia | — | 137 | 35 rec. | — | 41 | Mihails | 4 |
| US United States | — | 95 | 81 rec. | — | — | Mihails | 34 |
| RU Russia | — | 63 | 36 rec. | — | — | Mihails | 23 |
| PL Poland | — | 53 | — | 1 in 722K | 53 | — | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 35△ | 3 rec. | 1 in 292K | 35 | — | 5 |
| ES Spain | — | 30 | 18 rec. | 1 in 1.7M | 30 | Mihails | 7 |
| BR Brazil | — | 21 | 13 rec. | — | — | Mihails | 6 |
| DK Denmark | — | 16 | — | 1 in 367K | 16 | — | — |
| NO Norway | — | 14 | 10 rec. | — | 164 | Mihails | 6 |
Roughly 7.7K people in Latvia bear this name (about 1 in 246). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.
Languages●
- Latvian11K85%
- English3383%
- Polish2372%
- Norwegian Bokmål1641%
- Finnish1491%
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| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Latvian | 10,680 | 85% |
| English | 338 | 3% |
| Polish | 237 | 2% |
| Norwegian Bokmål | 164 | 1% |
| Finnish | 149 | 1% |
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●
Mihails 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.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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 |
|---|---|
| 2010 | 11 |
| 2011 | 13 |
| 2012 | 16 |
| 2013 | 17 |
| 2014 | 18 |
| 2015 | 18 |
| 2016 | 22 |
| 2017 | 24 |
| 2018 | 22 |
| 2019 | 20 |
| 2020 | 18 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 11 years between 2010–2020. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.
Notable people with this name●
- Michael I of Russiab. 1596RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1613–1645)
- Mikhail Bakuninb. 1814FRnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
- Michel Fokineb. 1880USnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer and choreographer (1880–1942)
- Mikhail Sholokhovb. 1905RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1905-1984)
- Mikhail Botvinnikb. 1911RUnot in their usual nameSoviet chess player
- Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikovb. 1919RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
- Mikhail Gorbachevb. 1931RUnot in their usual nameleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
- Mikhail Talb. 1936LVnot in their usual nameSoviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)
- Mikhail Khodorkovskyb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
- Mikhail Mishustinb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 7.7K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 7.6K | #54 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 164 | #5,560 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 144 | #4,197 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 53 | #3,210 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 50 | #3,138 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 41 | #1,048 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 35 | #17,440 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #42,255 |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 24 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 22 | — |
Reference works 2
- 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 · 39 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mihails?
- We estimate roughly 7.8 thousand people bear Mihails (counting its spellings and scripts) across 7 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mihails have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 7.7 thousand people bear Mihails in Latvia, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mihails.
- Where is Mihails most common?
- Mihails is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 246 people carrying it.
- How common is Mihails compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Mihails is the 56th most common given name of 17,921 given names recorded there.
- Is Mihails a male or female name?
- Mihails 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 Mihails mean?
- Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl)
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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, “Mihails” — the 56th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.