Mí

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Vietnamese: eyelid

Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published

Mí is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.

  • ITItaly≈1 in 37K(inferred from the name graph)
  • NPNepal1 in 1.5Kas Mali
  • LALaos≈1 in 1.7Kas May

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mí itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. Countries with no figure are shown too: flat where a national register lists the name without counting it, hatched where only our records hold it. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

103,306 named May, 2010

#742 (measured from records)

of 19M surnames, spellings grouped

4 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Record sources
558 (measured from records)

corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling

strongest: highest-authority source

≈1 in 37K (inferred from the name graph)

Italy, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts

(measured from records)
MíLatin(measured from records)
มาThai(measured from records)
МиCyrillic(measured from records)
미의Hangul(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled May in GB United Kingdom, AU Australia, DE Germany and 2 more, Mi in US United States, IN India, MX Mexico and Mati in LA Laos.

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)

eyelid

Cited for this meaning 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mí is read

(measured from records)

Mí is one spelling over 3 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • Vietnamese62%

    eyelid

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • Arabic22%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mí in Arabic.

  • Spanish5.7%

    me; (declined form of yo used as the object of a preposition)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world

(measured from records)

Mí 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 Mí is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#236103,306as May1 in 3.2K103KMi558
IN India—73,466as Mali1 in 18K73KMi67
MX Mexico—≈55,000 est.≈1 in 2.4K1.4KMi60
GB United Kingdom#156≈31,000 est.≈1 in 2.2K7May303
DE Germany#176≈26,000 est.≈1 in 3.3KlistedMay197
NP Nepal—19,605as Mali1 in 1.5K20K——
AU Australia#195≈13,000 est.≈1 in 2.1K6May246
LA Laos—≈4,500 est.≈1 in 1.7K—Mati11
SG Singapore#125≈3,200 est.≈1 in 1.9K—May122
IT Italy#443≈1,600 est.≈1 in 37K2May49

103,306 people counted by Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010, 2010, counting the spelling may. 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; NRS — Baby names Scotland full list (1974–present); Instate — India surnames (clean spellings) from electoral rolls; Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM); NPHC 2021 — Population by caste/ethnicity group (national), surname-shaped categories only; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); RENAPO — name frequencies (eduardofv dataset). 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)

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

  • Arabic given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Morocco, Algeria, Syria, Egypt

    Also written Mi, Mï, Mî, Mį, Mī

  • a separate given name22 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Italy, India, Russia

    Also written Mi, Mï, Mî, Mī, Mĩ

  • French given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria, Italy

    Also written Mi, Mî, Mï, Mì, Mī

  • Japanese given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Mi, Mị, Mì, Mĩ, Mï

  • Danish given name30 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Algeria

    Also written Mï, Mi, Mî, Mį, Mī

  • Burmese given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

    Also written Mì, Mï, Mī, Mĩ, Mį

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Mï, Mì, Mị, Mî, Mi

9 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.

Other recorded senses

(measured from records)

Mí is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In jpx-pro, water

    as a wordStarLing Tower of Babel etymological databases (Starostin et al.)

  • In Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 冞

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Icelandic, mi (note in solfège)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • In Czech, mu (Greek letter)

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

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)
  • Ding Miperson, CBDB ID = 387590
  • Lu MiNorthern Wei person CBDB = 32769
  • Zhang MiQing dynasty person CBDB = 345247

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)

No register attests this spelling yet

None of the official registers or reference works in our corpus lists Mí under this spelling. The statistics on this page rest on person records, and the related names are inferred from the name graph.

Frequently asked questions

What does the name Mí mean, and where does it come from?
eyelid Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Mí a male or female name?
Mí is recorded for both men and women. We don't publish a percentage split: a record's gender belongs to the person and is attached to every given name on that record, so names in cultures where a name string also carries a parent's or spouse's given name pick up large cross-gender counts.
In which country does Mí have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 103 thousand people named May, more than in any other country we hold.
How common is the name Mí?
In the United States, the national register counted 103,306 people named May in 2010, about 1 in 3.2 thousand residents.
How common is Mí compared with other names?
In the United States, Mí is the 236th most common surname of 6,282,806 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, “Mí” — the 236th most common surname in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.

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