Michaëlis
surname · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mikai/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Michaëlis is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Uganda than in any other country, where it is the 3rd most common surname. Recorded meaning: Latinized patronymic from the personal name Michael.
- UGUganda≈1 in 57(inferred from the name graph)
- DEGermany≈1 in 7.5K
- USUnited States1 in 103K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Uganda (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 294 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 57 (inferred from the name graph)
≈760,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uganda, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michaelis in US United States, DE Germany, UG Uganda and 4 more.
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Latinized patronymic from the personal name Michael.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Michaëlis counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| UG Uganda | #3 | ≈760,000 est. | ≈1 in 57 | — | Michaelis | 2 |
| DE Germany | #599 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 7.5K | — | Michaelis | 163 |
| US United States | — | 3,222 | 1 in 103K | 3.2K | Michaelis | 294 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈420 est. | ≈1 in 91K | — | Michaelis | 69 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈370 est. | ≈1 in 180K | listed | Michaelis | 79 |
| HU Hungary | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 95K | — | Michaelis | 4 |
| PY Paraguay | — | ≈91 est. | ≈1 in 79K | — | Michaelis | 5 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010. Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Sebastien Michaelisb. 1543FRFrench religious servant
- Gerrit Jan Michaëlisb. 1775NLpainter from the Northern Netherlands (1775-1857)
- Carolina Michaëlis de Vasconcelosb. 1851PTGerman-Portuguese academic and art collector (1851–1925)
- Sophus Michaëlisb. 1865DKDanish author and songwriter (1865-1932)
- Hermann Michaëlisb. 1868DEGerman writer and sexologist (1868-1943)
- Karin Michaelisb. 1872DKDanish journalist and author (1872–1950)
- Lena Michaëlisb. 1905NLDutch discus thrower (1905–1982)
- Tao Michaëlisb. 1920ITDanish revue writer and actor
- Bo Tao Michaëlisb. 1948DKDanish literary critic
- Patrick Michaëlisb. 1953FRFrench actor
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).
How to address them(machine-generated)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 5 sources across 2 countries.
Reference works 2
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- 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 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Michaëlis mean, and where does it come from?
- Latinized patronymic from the personal name Michael. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Michaëlis?
- A machine transcription gives /mikai/ (IPA) for French.
- In which country does Michaëlis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 760 thousand people named Michaëlis in Uganda, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michaelis.
- How common is the name Michaëlis?
- In the United States, the national register counted 3,222 people named Michaëlis in 2010, about 1 in 103 thousand residents.
- How common is Michaëlis compared with other names?
- In Uganda, Michaëlis is the 3rd most common surname of 6,307 surnames recorded there.
What do you want to know about Michaëlis?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/micha%C3%ABlisThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
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, “Michaëlis” — the 3rd most common surname in Uganda. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.