Mihails
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihails is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Latvia than in any other country, where it is the 54th most common given name. Recorded meaning: A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl).
- LVLatvia1 in 246(measured from records)
- EEEstonia≈1 in 19K
- ISIceland1 in 32K
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)
- Sources
- 86 (measured from records)
- 1 in 246 (inferred from the name graph)
7,654 people
Highest-authority source
Latvia
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl)
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 15 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mihails 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 | #54 | 7,654 | 1 in 246 | 7.7K | Mihails | 86 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 641K | listed | Mihails | 53 |
| EE Estonia | #834 | ≈65 est. | ≈1 in 19K | 41 | Mihails | 5 |
| LT Lithuania | — | ≈63 est. | ≈1 in 44K | — | Mihails | 13 |
| PL Poland | — | 53 | 1 in 722K | 53 | — | — |
| IS Iceland | — | 11 | 1 in 32K | 11 | — | — |
| CY Cyprus | — | ≈6 est. | ≈1 in 218K | — | Mihails | 3 |
7,654 people counted by PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register). 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); the gb-nisra-baby-names-ni register; the ee-stat-nimed register; dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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)
Mihails 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.
In Latvian, Vīrieša vārds
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)
- Michael I of Russiab. 1596RUnot in their usual nameTsar of Russia (1613–1645)
- Mikhail Bakuninb. 1814FRnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
- Michel Fokineb. 1880USnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer and choreographer (1880–1942)
- Mikhail Sholokhovb. 1905RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1905-1984)
- Mikhail Botvinnikb. 1911RUnot in their usual nameSoviet chess player
- Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikovb. 1919RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
- Mikhail Gorbachevb. 1931RUnot in their usual nameleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
- Mikhail Talb. 1936LVnot in their usual nameSoviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)
- Mikhail Khodorkovskyb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
- Mikhail Mishustinb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation
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 18 sources across 12 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register) | — | 7.7K | — |
| LV Latvia | PMLP — Personvārdu meklētājs (per-name population-register lookup) | — | 7.6K | #54 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20) | 2026 | 53 | #3,210 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 50 | #3,138 |
| EE Estonia | Statistics Estonia — per-name Population Register counts (nimed) | — | 41 | #1,048 |
| IS Iceland | Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry) | 2026 | 11 | — |
| EE Estonia | Siseministeerium — population register name list 2023 | 2023 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2015 | — | — |
| GB United Kingdom | NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present) | 2009 | — | — |
Reference works 2
- Wikipedia given-name 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 Mihails mean, and where does it come from?
- A transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl) Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mihails a male or female name?
- Mihails is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What are other forms of the name Mihails?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mihails have the most bearers?
- In Latvia, the national register counted about 7.7 thousand people named Mihails, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihails.
- Where is Mihails most common?
- Mihails is densest in Latvia, where the national register counts about 1 in 246 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mihails?
- In Latvia, the national register counted 7,654 people named Mihails, about 1 in 246 residents.
- How common is Mihails compared with other names?
- In Latvia, Mihails is the 54th most common given name of 11,601 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mihailsThe same 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), and bulk access is licensed separately.
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, “Mihails” — the 54th most common given name in Latvia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.