Mihaly
given name · Latin script
Meaning: from the personal name Mihaly, Hungarian form of Michael
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mihɑj/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Mihaly is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 1.6M(measured from records)
- SESweden1 in 89K
- ISIceland1 in 175K
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)
- Sources
- 134 (measured from records)
- 1 in 89K (inferred from the name graph)
204 people, 2020
Highest-authority source
Sweden
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
from the personal name Mihaly, Hungarian form of Michael.
Sources 1
- Dictionary of American Family Names
Attested across 29 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mihaly 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.
204 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; Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); PMLP — Personu vārdi (given names in population register); 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)
Mihaly 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.
In English, Hungarian; one who is like God
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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)
- Mihály Vörösmartyb. 1800HUHungarian writer (1800-1855)
- Mihály Munkácsyb. 1844HUHungarian painter (1844-1900)
- Mihály Károlyib. 1875HUHungarian politician, president, prime minister of Hungary and ambassador to France (1875–1955)
- Mihály Babitsb. 1883HUHungarian poet, translator (1883-1941)
- Michael Curtizb. 1886HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-American director (1886–1962)
- Michael Polanyib. 1891HUnot in their usual nameHungarian-British polymath (1891–1976)
- Mihaly Csikszentmihalyib. 1934USHungarian-American psychologist (1934–2021)
- Michel Sognyb. 1947FRnot in their usual nameFrench pianist
- Victor Orbanb. 1963HUnot in their usual namePrime Minister of Hungary (1998–2002; 2010–2026) (born 1963)
- Mihály Korhutb. 1988HUHungarian footballer
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)
Attested in 33 sources across 18 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2020 | 2020 | 499 | #46,089 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2000 | 2000 | 496 | #41,382 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — Surname Frequency 2010 | 2010 | 485 | #44,356 |
| ES Spain | INE — Apellidos más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal) | — | 30 | #63,743 |
| ES Spain | INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos) | — | 30 | #62,916 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 16 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 16 | #103,014 |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames) | 2026 | 13 | — |
| PL Poland | dane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names) | — | 13 | #116,153 |
| SE Sweden | Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population) | — | 8 | #45,652 |
| DK Denmark | Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts) | — | 3 | #80,093 |
| US United States | wru Name Dictionary — US surnames, Census 2010 subset (Khanna et al.) | — | — | — |
Reference works 3
- Dictionary of American Family Names
- 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
- What does the name Mihaly mean, and where does it come from?
- from the personal name Mihaly, Hungarian form of Michael. Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
- How do you pronounce Mihaly?
- A machine transcription gives /mihɑj/ (IPA) for Hungarian.
- Is Mihaly a male or female name?
- Mihaly 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 Mihaly have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 204 people named Mihaly, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mihaly.
- Where is Mihaly most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mihaly is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 89 thousand people — even though United States holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Mihaly?
- In the United States, the national register counted 204 people named Mihaly in 2020, about 1 in 1.6 million residents.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mihalyThe 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, “Mihaly”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.