Mì

given name · Latin script

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

Mì is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: noodle made of wheat flour.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 51K(measured from records)
  • NLNetherlands1 in 180K
  • SESweden1 in 15K

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

United States (measured from records)

6,568 people, 2020

Sources
86 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 15K (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

One other spelling is counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Mi in US United States, NL Netherlands.

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)

noodle made of wheat flour

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 28 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mì 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 Mì is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States6,5681 in 51K6.1KMi86
SE Sweden6811 in 15K681—9
BR Brazil1851 in 1.1M185—1
NL Netherlands961 in 180K90Mi10
FI Finland871 in 64K184—4
DK Denmark731 in 80K73—1
IS Iceland21 in 175K2—1

6,568 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; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (all-time BRP bearer counts, 2018); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mì is also recorded as 6 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

  • French given name15 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Algeria, Italy

    Also written Mi, Mî, Mï, Mí, Mī

  • Burmese given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Myanmar (Burma)

    Also written Mï, Mí, Mī, Mĩ, Mį

  • Japanese given name10 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan

    Also written Mi, Mị, Mí, Mĩ, Mï

  • Italian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, United Kingdom

    Also written Mi, Mï, Mí, Mî, Mị

  • a separate name7 spellings in the group

    Also written Mí, Mï, Mị, Mî, Mi

7 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)

Mì 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 Chinese, Hanyu Pinyin reading of 冖

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

  • In bbj, Adam's apple, throat

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

  • In tyz, to have

    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)

4006008001000120014001600Yuan Mi, b. 510Li Mi, b. 722Zhang Bi, b. 930Luo Bi, b. 1131Fang Mi, b. 1423
  • Yuan Mib. 510person, CBDB = 181767
  • Li Mib. 722Chinese chancellor
  • Zhang Bib. 930not in their usual nameChinese poet
  • Luo Bib. 1131not in their usual nameSong historian (1131–1189)
  • Fang Mib. 1423politician
  • Song Binot in their usual nameSong dynasty person (CBDB = 3800)
  • Xu MiMing dynasty person CBDB = 229844
  • Li MiTang dynasty person CBDB = 93009
  • Zhang MiMing dynasty person CBDB = 130400
  • Zhang MiTang dynasty person CBDB = 153753

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 Mì 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 Mì mean, and where does it come from?
noodle made of wheat flour Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
Is Mì a male or female name?
Mì 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 Mì have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 6.6 thousand people named Mì, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mi.
Where is Mì most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mì is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 15 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mì?
In the United States, the national register counted 6,568 people named Mì in 2020, about 1 in 51 thousand residents.

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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, “Mì”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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