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Mihaela

Girls' name

Feminine form of Mihail

Mihaela has been given to 92 babies in the U.S. since 2003. 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 2020, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mihaela, 2024

1 in 669,000

Mihaela over time, 1880–2025

Girls
02.557.51018801900192019401960198020002020

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mihaela: meaning, origin, and history

Feminine form of Mihail

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mihaela means

Mihaela is a feminine form of Mihail.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mihaela is used in Romanian, Slovene, Croatian, Bulgarian and Macedonian.

Another recorded pronunciation is /mi.ha.ˈe.la/ and /ˈmíː.xa.ɛ.la/ for Mihaela.

Meaning behind the documented name family

The name developed through Mihaela → Mihail. The family’s meaning is “Who is like God?”, recorded in Romanian.

Origin, language, and formation

Mihaela is used in Romanian and Slovene.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mihail.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Slovene, Mihaela is pronounced /míːxaɛla/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 92 girls were recorded with the name Mihaela between 2003 and 2024. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2020; its best national rank was #10,028 in 2020.

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 Mihaela?

Mihaela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2024
1 in 669,000
5 of 3,342,801 births
Among girls only
1 in 324,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2024
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
463,412 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mihaela sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 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 463,412 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mihaela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mihaelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mihaela was born before 2016 — so the typical Mihaela is around 9 today.

Median birth year
2016
About 9 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
52.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
92
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 52.2% of all recorded uses (48).

Is Mihaela 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
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
New entry
Not ranked then
Rank vs 10 years ago
—
Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
—
Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 2020 (10)
Years since peak
5
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
26.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#10,028
2020

Spellings of Mihaela

Mihaela is not the most common spelling — Mikayla is, with 28.7% against Mihaela's 0.05%.

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.

Mihaela around the world

Where Mihaela 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
    2007–2025
    #3,333
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2005–2022
    #905
    in 2022
  • France
    2004–2024
    #3,512
    in 2024
  • Canada
    2012–2013
    #2,555
    in 2013
  • South Australia
    1974–1974
    #683
    in 1974

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Central Statistics Office, Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mihaela by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#10,028
2020
Peak year
2020
10 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2024
All-time count
92
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mihaela

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

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Sibling names for Mihaela

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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