Mihelič

surname · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Mihelič is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Slovenia than in any other country. Recorded meaning: patronymic from the personal name Mihel, an old spelling of Mihael (see Michael).

rarermore common
  • HRCroatia1 in 7.7K(measured from records)
  • SISlovenia1 in 1.5K
  • RSSerbia≈1 in 649K

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.

Slovenia (measured from records)

1,398 people

2 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
21 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 1.5K (inferred from the name graph)

Slovenia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MiheličLatin(measured from records)
МихелићCyrillic(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mihelić in HR Croatia and Mihelic in US United States.

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)

patronymic from the personal name Mihel, an old spelling of Mihael (see Michael).

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 5 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mihelič 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.

Where Mihelič is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
SI Slovenia#1081,3981 in 1.5K1.4KMihelič17
HR Croatia—5461 in 7.7K546Mihelić21
US United States—3341 in 996K346Mihelic14
RS Serbia—≈11 est.≈1 in 649K—Mihelič2
CH Switzerland—81 in 1.1M8—1

1,398 people counted by stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank). 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: DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); stat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank); Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; BFS — Familiennamen der Wohnbevölkerung (surnames). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mihelič is also recorded as 7 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English surname8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Canada, Germany, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mihelic, Mihelić

  • a separate name3 spellings in the group

    Also written Mihelić, Mihelic

  • Slovak surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Slovakia, Czechia

    Languages: Slovak, Czech

    Also written Mihelic

  • Spanish surname5 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Argentina, Chile, Mexico

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese

    Also written Mihelic, Mihelić

  • French surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States

    Also written Mihelic, Mihelić

  • Arabic surname3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Egypt, United States

    Also written Mihelic, Mihelić

  • Hindi surname4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States

    Also written Mihelic, Mihelić

8 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

190019502000Joseph Mihelič, b. 1902France Mihelič, b. 1907Mira Mihelič, b. 1912Milan Mihelič, b. 1925Tine Mihelič, b. 1941Joža Mihelič, b. 1946Darja Mihelič, b. 1950Peter Mihelič, b. 1979Rene Mihelič, b. 1988

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).

Evidence(measured from records)

Attested in 4 sources across 2 countries.

Official registers attesting Mihelič
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
SI Sloveniastat.si Imena rojstva — full name register (per-token frequency + rank)—1.4K#84

Reference works 2

  • Wikipedia surname tokens
  • 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 Mihelič mean, and where does it come from?
patronymic from the personal name Mihel, an old spelling of Mihael (see Michael). Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
In which country does Mihelič have the most bearers?
In Slovenia, the national register counted about 1.4 thousand people named Mihelič, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihelič.
Where is Mihelič most common?
Mihelič is densest in Slovenia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.5 thousand people carrying it.
How common is the name Mihelič?
In Slovenia, the national register counted 1,398 people named Mihelič, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
How common is Mihelič compared with other names?
In Slovenia, Mihelič is the 108th most common surname of 13,062 surnames recorded there.

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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, “Mihelič” — the 108th most common surname in Slovenia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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