Mihal
surname · Latin script
Meaning: variant spelling of Michael, or short form of a patronymic derivative such as Mihalidis
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/ˈmaɪhəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mihal is a surname written in the Latin script, with more bearers in China than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 587K(measured from records)
- ALAlbania≈1 in 18K
- CZCzechia1 in 70K
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.
- China (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 166 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 18K (inferred from the name graph)
≈13,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Albania, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
variant spelling of Michael, or short form of a patronymic derivative such as Mihalidis.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mihal 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 | |||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| CN China | ≈13,000 est. | ≈1 in 108K | — | Mihal | 1 |
| US United States | 567 | 1 in 587K | 567 | Mihal | 166 |
| AL Albania | ≈170 est. | ≈1 in 18K | 838 | — | — |
| CZ Czechia | 152 | 1 in 70K | 152 | — | — |
| IN India | ≈100 est. | ≈1 in 13M | 3 | Mihal | 3 |
| AT Austria | ≈30 est. | ≈1 in 297K | — | Mihal | 12 |
| MD Moldova | ≈12 est. | ≈1 in 277K | 1 | — | — |
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 — Surname Frequency 2010; INSTAT Albania — Search the name (given-name counts); MVČR — living population register 2017; the in-instate-surnames-bystate register; e-services.md — living population register. 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)
Mihal is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In Greek, from the personal name Mychajlo, Ukrainian form of Michael.
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Greek, from the Slovak personal name Mihal (see Michael).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In Greek, Variant of Hungarian Mihaly (see Michael).
as a nameDictionary of American Family Names
In enm, alternative form of Michel
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)
- Joe Mihalb. 1916USAmerican football player (1916-1979)
- Jozef Mihálb. 1965SKSlovak Minister of Labour and Social Affairs and politician
- Mário Mihálb. 2001SKSlovak footballer
- Andrew MihalUSPh.D. University of California, Berkeley 2006
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)
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 32 sources across 16 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 567 | #38,902 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 537 | #43,339 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 530 | #39,111 |
| CZ Czechia | MVČR — living population register 2017 | — | 152 | #11,151 |
| CZ Czechia | KdeJsme.cz — četnost jmen a příjmení (MVČR population register front-end) | — | 151 | #6,367 |
| IN India | Instate — India surnames by state (real counts) from electoral rolls | — | 3 | #282,211 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 5
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia surname 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
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
- How do you pronounce Mihal?
- A machine transcription gives /ˈmaɪhəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
- What does the name Mihal mean, and where does it come from?
- variant spelling of Michael, or short form of a patronymic derivative such as Mihalidis. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- In which country does Mihal have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 13 thousand people named Mihal in China, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihal.
- How common is the name Mihal?
- In the United States, the national register counted 567 people named Mihal in 2010, about 1 in 587 thousand residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mihalThe 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, “Mihal”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.