Mihkel

given name · Estonian · Latin script

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

Mihkel is a given name, most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is the 61st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Estonian and Finnish, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Michael.

rarermore common
  • EEEstonia1 in 513◐
  • FIFinland1 in 133K
  • SESweden1 in 170K

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

≈116 ●

across 6 countries

2 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
76 ●

2.8K records

Official registry-verified

1 in 133K ◐

Finland

Spellings & scripts●

MihkelLatin · Estonian●8.1K records
МихкельCyrillic · Russian●132 records

Locally spelled Михкель in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan and Mihkel' in LV Latvia.

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 male given name, equivalent to English 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.

Where Mihkel is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
EE Estonia#618,2841.3K rec.—2.9KMihkel76
US United States—331315 rec.——Mihkel45
RU Russia—10219 rec.——Михкель23
GB United Kingdom—6746 rec.——Mihkel17
AU Australia—6152 rec.——Mihkel15
SE Sweden—60△11 rec.1 in 170K60Mihkel9
FI Finland—4234 rec.1 in 133K586Mihkel11
DE Germany—3027 rec.——Mihkel9
CA Canada—2822 rec.——Mihkel9
KZ Kazakhstan—220 rec.——Михкель2
NO Norway—87 rec.—40Mihkel4
DK Denmark—8—1 in 734K8——

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

Languages●

  • Estonian8.1K82%
  • Finnish6767%
  • English5005%
  • German731%
  • Spanish521%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Estonian8,11982%
Finnish6767%
English5005%
German731%
Spanish521%

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◐

Mihkel is also recorded as 5 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Norwegian Bokmål given name132 records spelled Mihkel9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Norway, Denmark, United States, Latvia

    Languages: Norwegian Bokmål, Danish, Swedish

    Also written Mihkel'

  • Polish given name40 records spelled Mihkel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Estonia, Latvia

    Also written Mihkel'

  • Hungarian given name26 records spelled Mihkel2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia

    Also written Mihkel'

  • Serbian given name25 records spelled Mihkel12 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Latvia, Estonia

    Languages: Serbian, Croatian, Slovenian

    Also written Mihkel', Михкел

  • Czech given name22 records spelled Mihkel3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Estonia, Latvia

    Also written Mihkel'

28 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●

0102030402000200520102015202037 · 2019

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Mihkel in SCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023), Sweden, 1999–2020
Yearrecords
199928
200026
200123
200224
200322
200424
200524
200623
200723
200824
200924
201026
201129
201231
201334
201434
201536
201635
201734
201834
201937
202036

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●

18001850190019502000Mihkel Veske, b. 1843Mihkel Martna, b. 1860Mihkel Pung, b. 1876Mihkel Lüdig, b. 1880Mihkel Mutt, b. 1953Mihkel Raud, b. 1969Mihkel Peäske, b. 1971Mihkel Ulk, b. 1983Mihkel Aksalu, b. 1984Mihkel Räim, b. 1993

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.

Official registers attesting Mihkel
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — Ees- ja perekonnanimed (Population Register)—2.9K#47
EE EstoniaStatistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed)—2.9K#47
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—586#1,926
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—60#12,164
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—42—
NO NorwaySSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population)—40#13,746
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201937—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)202036—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201536—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201635—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201834—
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)201734—

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 Mihkel?
We estimate roughly 116 people bear Mihkel (counting its spellings and scripts) across 6 countries in our records.
In which country does Mihkel have the most bearers?
Mihkel is most frequently recorded in Estonia, where it is most often spelled mihkel.
How common is Mihkel compared with other names?
In Estonia, Mihkel is the 61st most common given name of 14,570 given names recorded there.
Is Mihkel a male or female name?
Mihkel 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 Mihkel mean?
Recorded meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Michael
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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, “Mihkel” — the 61st most common given name in Estonia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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