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Mihai

#11,537 in 2025Boys' name

Who is like God?

Mihai has been given to 71 babies in the U.S. since 2001. In 2025 it ranked #11,537 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2008, with 8 recorded.

Babies named Mihai, 2025

1 in 553,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mihai: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mihai means

Mihai means “Who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Mihai is used in Romanian.

Mihai comes through Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ, Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ and Hebrew מִיכָאֵל.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Mihail.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Romanian, Mihai is pronounced [miˈhaj].

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 71 boys were recorded with the name Mihai between 2001 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 8 in 2008; its best national rank was #9,559 in 2008.

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 Mihai?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 553,000
6 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 285,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#11,537
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
382,984 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mihai 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 2025 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 382,984 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mihai. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mihais were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mihai was born before 2011 — so the typical Mihai is around 14 today.

Median birth year
2011
About 14 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
45.1% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
71
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 45.1% of all recorded uses (32).

Is Mihai 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
75.0%
Peak was 2008 (8)
Years since peak
17
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
17.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#9,559
2008

Spellings of Mihai

Mihai is not the most common spelling — Micah is, with 59.8% against Mihai's 0.04%.

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.

Mihai around the world

Where Mihai 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
    2003–2025
    #2,440
    in 2025
  • Ireland
    2002–2024
    #520
    in 2024
  • France
    2004–2025
    #4,185
    in 2025
  • Canada
    1991–2010
    #2,386
    in 2010
  • South Australia
    2007–2007
    #680
    in 2007

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.

Mihai by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#11,537
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
New entry
Best rank ever
#9,559
2008
Peak year
2008
8 that year
First recorded
2001
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
71
Count in 2025
6

Names similar to Mihai

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

MihanMihitMihaanMihranAshaiMihailMihajloAkhaiMihailoZachaiMikhaiMihcaelZakhaiNakhaiMihirMihaelOshaiMachaiJhaiJachaiChaiMiheirJakhaiYishai

Sibling names for Mihai

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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