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Mihael

Boys' name

Who + like, through מִיכָאֵל

Mihael has been given to 22 babies in the U.S. since 1962. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1986, with 7 recorded.

Babies named Mihael, 1986

1 in 508,000

Mihael over time, 1880–2025

Boys
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mihael: meaning, origin, and history

Who + like, through מִיכָאֵל

Hebrew

What Mihael means

Mihael belongs to the name family reached through Mihael → מִיכָאֵל. Its meaning is “who + like”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mihael is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene. Its origins include Hebrew.

Mihael comes through Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael and מִיכָאֵל.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Serbo-Croatian, Mihael is pronounced /mǐxael/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 22 boys were recorded with the name Mihael between 1962 and 1986. Its highest annual count was 7 in 1986; its best national rank was #4,443 in 1962.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Mihael?

Mihael had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 1986, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 1986
1 in 508,000
7 of 3,556,724 births
Among boys only
1 in 263,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 1986
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
352,192 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mihael sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Liam (20,818)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 1986 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 352,192 children born in 1986 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mihael. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mihaels were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mihael was born before 1980 — so the typical Mihael is around 45 today.

Median birth year
1980
About 45 years old
Biggest decade
1980s
54.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
22
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1980s — 54.5% of all recorded uses (12).

Is Mihael rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
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Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1986 (7)
Years since peak
39
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Not enough data
Too few years
Best rank ever
#4,443
1962

Spellings of Mihael

Mihael is not the most common spelling — Michael is, with 94.3% against Mihael's <0.01%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Mihael around the world

Where Mihael ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • England & Wales
    2009–2009
    #4,527
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1956–1974
    #455
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mihael by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#4,443
1962
Peak year
1986
7 that year
First recorded
1962
Last recorded
1986
All-time count
22
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mihael

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

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Sibling names for Mihael

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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