Mihai
given name · Latin script
Meaning: a male given name comparable to Michael
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihai is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Romania than in any other country, where it is the 14th most common given name.
- RORomania≈1 in 117(inferred from the name graph)
- ITItaly≈1 in 6.2K
- ESSpain1 in 17K
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
- 282 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 117 (inferred from the name graph)
≈180,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Romania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
a male given name comparable to Michael
Sources 1
- kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mihai 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| RO Romania | #14 | ≈180,000 est. | ≈1 in 117 | — | Mihai | 190 |
| IT Italy | #911 | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.2K | 6 | Mihai | 96 |
| MD Moldova | #74 | 8,027 | 1 in 419 | 8K | Mihai | 63 |
| ES Spain | #986 | 2,997 | 1 in 17K | 3.1K | Mihai | 104 |
| FR France | — | ≈2,300 est. | ≈1 in 29K | 74 | Mihai | 4 |
| BE Belgium | — | ≈1,300 est. | ≈1 in 8.8K | 815 | Mihai | 59 |
| IS Iceland | — | 73 | 1 in 4.8K | 73 | — | — |
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; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Statbel — Noms de famille (family names); INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000); 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)
Mihai 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.
Romanian form of MICHAEL .
as a word
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)
- Mihai Viteazulb. 1558RORomanian prince and voivode of Wallachia, Transylvania and Moldavia (1558–1601)
- Mihai Eminescub. 1850RORomanian poet, novelist and journalist (1850-1889)
- Michael I of Romaniab. 1921CHnot in their usual namelast king of Romania (r. 1927–1930, 1940–1947)
- Mihai Ghimpub. 1951MDMoldovan politician
- Michael Cretub. 1957DEnot in their usual nameRomanian–German musician, singer, songwriter, and producer
- Mihai Tudoseb. 1967RO66th Prime Minister of Romania (2017-2018)
- Mihai Răzvan Ungureanub. 1968RO62nd Prime Minister of Romania (2012)
- Sorin Grindeanub. 1973ROnot in their usual name65th Prime Minister of Romania (2017)
- Mihai Mălaimareb. 1975RORomanian cinematographer
- Mihai Trăistariub. 1979RORomanian singer
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 60 sources across 30 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 2.6K | #1,934 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 2.6K | #1,934 |
| BE Belgium | Statbel — Noms de famille (family names) | — | 815 | #1,719 |
| BE Belgium | Familienaam.be — Belgian family-name frequency (population register) | 2008 | 174 | #9,625 |
| FR France | INSEE — Fichier des noms de famille (1891–2000) | 1991 | 74 | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikipedia surname 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 Mihai mean, and where does it come from?
- a male given name comparable to Michael Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
- Is Mihai a male or female name?
- Mihai 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 Mihai have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 182 thousand people named Mihai in Romania, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihai.
- How common is the name Mihai?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 8,027 people named Mihai, about 1 in 419 residents.
- How common is Mihai compared with other names?
- In Romania, Mihai is the 14th most common given name of 34,167 given names recorded there.
- What are other forms of the name Mihai?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Mike are forms of the same name in other languages.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mihaiThe 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, “Mihai” — the 14th most common given name in Romania. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.