Mihály
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name, equivalent to English Michael (kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations))
A male name· listed as male by the registers that count names by sex
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 12 countries · latest register: dane.gov.pl, 2026
/ˈmiɦaːj/(recorded in a dictionary) Hungarian · from Wiktionary
Mihály is a male given name written in the Latin script, most frequently recorded in Hungary.
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)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.
How to pronounce Mihály
- Hungarian:/ˈmiɦaːj/(recorded in a dictionary) from Wiktionary
Meaning & origin
(measured from records)a male given name, equivalent to English Michael
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mihály counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
| Country | Most common spelling | ||
|---|---|---|---|
| HU Hungary | — | 49K | — |
| US United States | — | 499 | — |
| NO Norway | — | 120 | — |
| PL Poland | — | 115 | — |
| SE Sweden | — | 115 | — |
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: Nyilvántartó — Top-100 given names in population (2020–2025); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; SSB — Navnesøk (name-search service, living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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).
Other recorded senses
(measured from records)Mihály is also recorded in one other lexicon, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Hungarian form of MICHAEL .
as a word
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name
(measured from records)- Michael Polanyib. 1891HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyib. 1934USHungarian-American psychologist (1934–2021)
- Victor Orbanb. 1963HUnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026) (born 1963)
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)A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence
(measured from records)24 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 12 countries.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mihály mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name, equivalent to English Michael Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Mihály?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages.
- Is Mihály a male or female name?
- Mihály is a male name. National registers that list it by sex list it as male: Hungary (Nyilvántartó, 2025) and Poland (dane.gov.pl, 2026).
- How do you pronounce Mihály?
- In Hungarian /ˈmiɦaːj/ (Wiktionary).
- In which country does Mihály have the most bearers?
- Mihály is most frequently recorded in Hungary.
What do you want to know about Mihály?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mih%C3%A1lyThe 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, “Mihály” — ranked 29th in Hungary (Nyilvántartó). Data snapshot 2026-10-13.