Mihailo

#8,685 in 2025Boys' name

Form of Michael

Mihailo has been given to 128 babies in the U.S. since 2003. In 2025 it ranked #8,685 of 13,926 boys’ names in use. Its peak year was 2018, with 10 recorded.

Babies named Mihailo, 2025

1 in 368,000

Mihailo over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mihailo: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mihailo means

Mihailo is a form of Michael.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Mihailo is a form of Michael. Michael has more than one origin or interpretation.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 128 boys were recorded with the name Mihailo between 2003 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 10 in 2018; its best national rank was #7,966 in 2018.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #9,265 in 2020 to #8,685 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank rose, from #13,389 in 2015 to #8,685 in 2025.

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.

How common is Mihailo?

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

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 368,000
9 of 3,315,165 births
Among boys only
1 in 190,000
<0.01% of boys
Rank, 2025
#8,685
of 13,926 boys’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
255,323 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mihailo 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 255,323 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mihailo. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mihailos were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mihailo was born before 2018 — so the typical Mihailo is around 7 today.

Median birth year
2018
About 7 years old
Biggest decade
2010s
43.8% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
128
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2010s — 43.8% of all recorded uses (56).

Is Mihailo 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
+881
Places climbed
Rank vs 5 years ago
+580
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
+4,704
Places climbed
Births vs 10 years ago
1.80×
More babies than then
Share of its own peak
90.0%
Peak was 2018 (10)
Years since peak
7
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
21.0% average annual change
Best rank ever
#7,966
2018

Spellings of Mihailo

Mihailo is not the most common spelling — Mikhail is, with 68.0% against Mihailo's 2.1%.

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.

Mihailo around the world

Where Mihailo 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
    2004–2021
    #4,789
    in 2021
  • France
    2014–2019
    #5,075
    in 2019
  • Canada
    1994–2020
    #2,945
    in 2020
  • South Australia
    1953–2010
    #754
    in 2010

Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, 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. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.

Mihailo by the numbers

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

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
#8,685
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 580
Best rank ever
#7,966
2018
Peak year
2018
10 that year
First recorded
2003
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
128
Count in 2025
9

Names similar to Mihailo

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

Sibling names for Mihailo

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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