Mihhail
given name · Estonian · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihhail is a given name, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In Estonia it is the 63rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl), equivalent to Michael.
- USUnited States1 in 96◐
- SESweden1 in 234
- EEEstonia1 in 533
carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.
- ≈3.8M ●
- Sources
- 277 ●
- 1 in 96 ◐
across 17 countries
52K records
Official registry-verified
United States
Spellings & scripts●
Locally spelled Michael in US United States, SE Sweden, FI Finland and 10 more.
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●
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl), equivalent to Michael
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 26 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 | |||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 3,469,434△ | 20K rec. | 1 in 96 | 3.5M | Michael | 277 |
| FR France | — | 81,100△ | 1 rec. | 1 in 837 | 81K | — | 1 |
| BR Brazil | — | 65,688 | — | 1 in 3.2K | 66K | — | — |
| DK Denmark | — | 43,976 | 0 rec. | 1 in 133 | 44K | Mihhail | 4 |
| SE Sweden | #886 | 43,683△ | 368 rec. | 1 in 234 | 44K | Michael | 52 |
| EC Ecuador | — | 32,283△ | 4 rec. | 1 in 524 | 32K | — | 5 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 25,854 | — | 1 in 414 | 26K | — | — |
| HU Hungary | #214 | 25,469 | 25K rec. | — | — | Michael | 102 |
| NL Netherlands | — | 11,976△ | 241 rec. | 1 in 1.4K | 12K | Michael | 29 |
| CR Costa Rica | — | 10,913 | — | 1 in 467 | 11K | — | — |
| PL Poland | — | 8,231△ | 2 rec. | 1 in 4.7K | 8.2K | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | #63 | 7,972 | 836 rec. | — | 3.2K | Mihhail | 58 |
Roughly 3.5M people in United States bear this name (about 1 in 96). 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●
- Estonian7.7K87%
- Finnish5176%
- English2022%
- Russian581%
- German571%
Show as table
| Name | Records | Note |
|---|---|---|
| Estonian | 7,710 | 87% |
| Finnish | 517 | 6% |
| English | 202 | 2% |
| Russian | 58 | 1% |
| German | 57 | 1% |
Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.
Over time●
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| Year | records |
|---|---|
| 2014 | 11 |
| 2015 | 11 |
| 2016 | 15 |
| 2017 | 17 |
| 2018 | 18 |
| 2019 | 19 |
| 2020 | 19 |
SE SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) — 7 years between 2014–2020. 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 16 sources across 8 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register) | — | 3.2K | #36 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 3.2K | #36 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 477 | #2,129 |
| NO Norway | SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population) | — | 56 | #11,277 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 31 | #18,804 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 22 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2020 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2019 | 19 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2018 | 18 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2017 | 17 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2016 | 15 | — |
| SE Sweden | SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023) | 2015 | 11 | — |
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 · 36 rows in the corpus for this spelling.
Frequently asked questions
- How common is the name Mihhail?
- We estimate roughly 3.8 million people bear Mihhail (counting its spellings and scripts) across 17 countries in our records.
- In which country does Mihhail have the most bearers?
- We estimate about 3.5 million people bear Mihhail in the United States, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled michael.
- Where is Mihhail most common?
- Mihhail is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 96 people carrying it.
- How common is Mihhail compared with other names?
- In Estonia, Mihhail is the 63rd most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
- Is Mihhail a male or female name?
- Mihhail 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 Mihhail mean?
- Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl), equivalent 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, “Mihhail” — the 63rd most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.