Mike
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Short form of Michael; 'Who is like God?'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/maɪk/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mike is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. In the Netherlands it is the 53rd most common given name.
- CACanada≈1 in 410(inferred from the name graph)
- NZNew Zealand≈1 in 454
- GBUnited Kingdom≈1 in 813
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 Mike itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- #258 (measured from records)
- 5 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 644 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 410 (inferred from the name graph)
228,046 people, 2020
of 15M given names
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
Canada, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
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.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Short form of Michael; 'Who is like God?'.
Sources 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mike, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mike 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | #113 | 228,046 | 1 in 1.5K | 227K | Mike | 644 |
| CA Canada | #56 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 410 | 4 | Mike | 352 |
| NG Nigeria | #525 | ≈92,000 est. | ≈1 in 2.3K | — | Mike | 108 |
| DE Germany | #206 | ≈88,000 est. | ≈1 in 908 | listed | Mike | 276 |
| GB United Kingdom | #178 | ≈81,000 est. | ≈1 in 813 | listed | Mike | 358 |
| NZ New Zealand | #66 | ≈11,000 est. | ≈1 in 454 | — | Mike | 185 |
| CH Switzerland | #283 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 839 | 50 | Mike | 134 |
| NL Netherlands | #53 | 1,718as Maik | 1 in 10K | 18K | Mike | 172 |
228,046 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. 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 — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); 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 recorded senses(measured from records)
Mike is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Usual short form of Michael. It is also used as an independent given name, particularly in the United States. Pet form: Mikey. Mikki ° Feminine variant of Micky (see }Mick) or pet form of Michaela, now sometimes used as an independent given name. Variants: Micki, Mickie, Mickey.
as a nameA concise dictionary of first names
In Hungarian, from a pet form of the personal name Miklos, Hungarian form of Nicholas, or possibly from a short form of Mihdly, Hungarian form of Michael.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In English, A microphone.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In Swedish, Mike är en engelsk smekform till → Mikael.
as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon
In English, short form of Michael
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
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)
- Mike Leighb. 1943GBEnglish writer and director (born 1943)
- Mike DeWineb. 1947USGovernor of Ohio since 2019
- Mike Starrb. 1950USAmerican actor (born 1950)
- Mike Penceb. 1959USVice President of the United States from 2017 to 2021
- Mike J. Dunleavyb. 1961USGovernor of Alaska since 2018
- Mike Pompeob. 1963USAmerican politician, United States Secretary of State
- Mike Tysonb. 1966USAmerican boxer and media personality (born 1966)
- Mike Phiromphornb. 1966THThai singer from Isan (northeastern) region
- Mike Colterb. 1976USAmerican actor
- Mike Bryanb. 1978USAmerican tennis 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).
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)
Attested in 118 sources across 64 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 227K | #246 |
| NL Netherlands | Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017) | — | 18K | #215 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 597 | #246 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 163 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 14 | — |
| CA Canada | Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender | 2024 | 4 | #922 |
Reference works 7
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
- Rymut, Słownik nazwisk współcześnie w Polsce używanych (10 vols, IJP PAN, Kraków 1992–1994) — every Polish surname in the PESEL register at the end of 1990, with bearer counts nationally and per voivodeship1990
- Ethiopian name tokens (GitHub lehagere/ethiopian-names, 40/60 condominium list)
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 Mike mean, and where does it come from?
- Short form of Michael; 'Who is like God?'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Mike?
- In the etymology graph, Miguel, Michel and Michal are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Michael.
- Is Mike a male or female name?
- Mike 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.
- In which country does Mike have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 228 thousand people named Mike, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mike.
- How common is the name Mike?
- In the United States, the national register counted 228,046 people named Mike in 2020, about 1 in 1.5 thousand residents.
- How common is Mike compared with other names?
- In the United States, Mike is the 113th most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.
- How do you pronounce Mike?
- A machine transcription gives /maɪk/ (IPA) for English.
What do you want to know about Mike?
Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.
Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikeThe 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, “Mike” — the 113th most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.