Miķelis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Michael (Biblical figure)
Recorded for both men and women· direction only, no split published
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 2 countries · latest register: Siseministeerium, 2023
Miķelis is a given name used for both men and women, written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country.
- LVLatvia1 in 1.7K(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 175K
- EEEstonia≈1 in 352K
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.
- Latvia (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 53 (measured from records)
- 1 in 1.7K (inferred from the name graph)
1,138 people
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mikelis in LV Latvia, US United States, CA Canada.
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)Michael (Biblical figure)
Cited for this meaning 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Miķelis 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | 1,138 | 1 in 1.7K | 1.1K | Mikelis | 16 |
| US United States | ≈40 est. | ≈1 in 8.2M | — | Mikelis | 53 |
| SE Sweden | 15 | 1 in 680K | 15 | — | — |
| PL Poland | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 3.1M | 3 | — | — |
| CA Canada | ≈8 est. | ≈1 in 4.9M | — | Mikelis | 4 |
| FI Finland | ≈4 est. | ≈1 in 1.4M | 26 | — | 1 |
| EE Estonia | ≈3 est. | ≈1 in 352K | listed | — | — |
| IS Iceland | 2 | 1 in 175K | 2 | — | — |
1,138 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register), counting the spelling miķelis. 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: PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)Miķelis is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Latvian, ebreju, kristietības un islāma mitoloģijā - erceņģelis, debesu karapulku vadonis pēdējā kaujā pret tumsas spēkiem
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
In Latvian, Zēns
as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)
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)- Miķelis Krogzemisb. 1850LVLatvian poet (1850-1879)
- Rūdolfs Bērziņšb. 1881LVnot in their usual nameLatvian singer
- Miķelis Rozentālsb. 1887LVLatvian politician
- Miķelis Biteb. 1891LVLatvian politician
- Miķelis Goppersb. 1908LVLatvian publisher (1908–1996)
- Miķelis Bukšsb. 1912LVLatvian linguist, literary historian and opinion journalist
- Miķelis Fišersb. 1915LVLatvian opera singer
- Miķelis Rubenisb. 1933LVLatvian sports journalist
- Miķelis Fišersb. 1970LVLatvian artist
- Miķelis Rēdlihsb. 1984LVLatvian ice hockey player
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)4 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 2 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 1.1K | #389 |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 1.1K | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
Reference works 1
- 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
- Is Miķelis a male or female name?
- Miķelis 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.
- What does the name Miķelis mean, and where does it come from?
- Michael (Biblical figure) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- What are other forms of the name Miķelis?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Miķelis have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Miķelis, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikelis.
- Where is Miķelis most common?
- Miķelis is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 1.7 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Miķelis?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 1,138 people named Miķelis, about 1 in 1.7 thousand residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mi%C4%B7elisThe 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, “Miķelis”. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.