Mihaela
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihaela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 13th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 122(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 3.5K
- ESSpain1 in 10K
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.
- Romania (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 253 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 122 (inferred from the name graph)
≈170,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin
No verified etymology recorded for this name yet — the entries below are drawn from usage statistics and the name graph.
Sources 1
Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mihaela 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.
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: e-services.md — living population register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); DZS — Imena i prezimena (per-token lookup form); DZS — Učestalost osobnih imena (Popis 2021); SURS — resident population given names. 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).
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mihaela Peneșb. 1947ROathletics competitor (1947–2024)
- Mihaela Loghinb. 1952ROathletics competitor
- Mihaela Armășescub. 1963RORomanian rower
- Mihaela Stănulețb. 1967ROgymnast
- Mihaela Radulescub. 1969RORomanian TV personality
- Mihaela Ciobanub. 1973RORomanian-born Spanish handball player
- Mihaela Melinteb. 1975RORomanian hammer thrower
- Mihaela Buzărnescub. 1988RORomanian female tennis player
- Michaëlla Krajicekb. 1989NLnot in their usual nameDutch tennis player
- Mihaela Petrilăb. 1991RORomanian rower
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 58 sources across 31 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 21 | #82,306 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 21 | #80,648 |
Reference works 4
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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
- In which country does Mihaela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 175 thousand people named Mihaela in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihaela.
- Is Mihaela a male or female name?
- Mihaela is a female 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 Mihaela?
- In the etymology graph, Michelle, Michele and Micaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How common is the name Mihaela?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 15,457 people named Mihaela, about 1 in 218 residents.
- How common is Mihaela compared with other names?
- In Romania, Mihaela is the 13th most common given name of 34,167 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/mihaelaThe 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, “Mihaela” — the 13th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.