Mihalis
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Greek form of Michael; 'Who is like God?'
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
(measured from records)Officially recorded in 10 countries
/miˈxalis/(recorded in a dictionary) Greek · from Wiktionary · read from μιχάλης
Mihalis is a male given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Greece than in any other country. In Cyprus it is the 39th most common given name.
- LVLatvia1 in 269K(measured from records)
- FIFinland1 in 507K
- MDMoldova1 in 673K
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 Mihalis 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.
- Greece (inferred from the name graph)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Record sources
- 123 (measured from records)
- ≈1 in 268K (inferred from the name graph)
≈16,000 named Μιχάλης, est.
recorded for this name
corpus datasets behind its best-documented spelling
strongest: highest-authority source
Jamaica, est.
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts
(measured from records)One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Michalis in CY Cyprus, GR Greece, GB United Kingdom and 5 more.
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)Greek form of Michael; 'Who is like God?'.
Cited for this meaning 1
- Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms
Attested across 20 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world
(measured from records)Mihalis 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 | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| GR Greece | #168 | ≈16,000 est. | ≈1 in 648 | 89 | Michalis | 123 |
| CY Cyprus | #39 | 14,576as Μιχαλης | 1 in 87 | 15K | Michalis | 94 |
| DE Germany | — | ≈260 est. | ≈1 in 325K | — | Michalis | 56 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈110 est. | ≈1 in 637K | — | Michalis | 71 |
| CZ Czechia | — | 104as Michalis | 1 in 103K | 104 | Michalis | 23 |
| SE Sweden | — | 83as Michalis | 1 in 123K | 83 | Michalis | 15 |
| AT Austria | — | ≈55 est. | ≈1 in 167K | 3 | Michalis | 11 |
| FI Finland | — | 11 | 1 in 507K | 31 | Michalis | 4 |
| JM Jamaica | — | ≈11 est. | ≈1 in 268K | — | Mihalis | 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: CYSTAT — Name frequency (2011 Population Census); Διαύγεια — directory of signing officials (organization → signers); MVČR — living population register 2017; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup). 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)- Mihalis Yannakakisb. 1953GRGreek theoretical computer scientist
- Michalis Dzikosb. 1962CZCzech businessman
- Mihalis Safrasb. 1979GRGreek DJ and record producer
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)17 registers and reference works attest this spelling, across 10 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 30 | #12,977 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup) | — | 25 | #18,286 |
| FI Finland | DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register) | — | 11 | — |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 9 | #37,468 |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- 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 Mihalis mean, and where does it come from?
- Greek form of Michael; 'Who is like God?'. Recorded by Dictionnaire généalogique des prénoms.
- What are other forms of the name Mihalis?
- In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Michel are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Mihalis?
- In Greek /miˈxalis/ (Wiktionary).
- Is Mihalis a male or female name?
- Mihalis 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 Mihalis have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 16 thousand people named Μιχάλης in Greece, more than in any other country we hold.
- How common is the name Mihalis?
- In Finland, the national register counted 11 people named Mihalis, about 1 in 507 thousand residents.
- How common is Mihalis compared with other names?
- In Greece, Mihalis is the 168th most common given name of 24,546 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/mihalisThe 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, “Mihalis” — the 168th most common given name in Greece. Data snapshot 2026-10-13.