Mikhael

given name · Latin script

Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɪkaəɫ/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Mikhael is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country. Recorded meaning: From Arabic مِيكَائِيل (mīkāʔīl, “Michael”); this surname is predominantly found in Egypt and Lebanon.

rarermore common
  • USUnited States1 in 299K(measured from records)
  • LBLebanon≈1 in 46K
  • SESweden1 in 61K

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.

United States (measured from records)

1,112 people, 2020

Sources
216 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

≈1 in 46K (inferred from the name graph)

Lebanon, est.

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

From Arabic مِيكَائِيل (mīkāʔīl, “Michael”); this surname is predominantly found in Egypt and Lebanon.

Sources 2

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mikhael 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.

Where Mikhael is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States1,1121 in 299K1KMikhael216
BR Brazil1,0871 in 195K1.1K—4
EG Egypt≈910 est.≈1 in 114K—Mikhael70
PH Philippines≈520 est.≈1 in 212K—Mikhael44
MY Malaysia≈490 est.≈1 in 67K—Mikhael13
SE Sweden1661 in 61K166—9
LB Lebanon≈120 est.≈1 in 46K—Mikhael25
CY Cyprus≈20 est.≈1 in 64K—Mikhael4

1,112 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; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Mikhael is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • Portuguese given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Philippines, United States, Venezuela

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish

    Also written Mikhaël

  • Indonesian given name3 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, India

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mikhael

  • Russian given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Ukraine, Russia, Israel

    Languages: Russian, Ukrainian, Belarusian

    Also written Mikhaël, Mikhaèl, Mikhaėl, Mikhaĕl

  • a separate name6 spellings in the group

    Also written Mikhaėl, Mikhaēl, Mikhaël, Mikhäel, Mikhae͏̈l

  • Hindi given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in India, Malaysia, United States, Philippines

    Languages: Hindi, Urdu

    Also written Mikhaël

  • Polish given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland

    Also written Mikhaël

44 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Notable people with this name(measured from records)

19201940196019802000Mikhael Daher, b. 1928Mikhael Ricks, b. 1974Mikhael Jaimez-Ruiz, b. 1984Mikhael Speidel, b. 1990Mikhael Akatsuka, b. 2000

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)

InformalHi Mikhael,

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 59 sources across 31 countries.

Official registers attesting Mikhael
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20202020988#26,068
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20102010552#39,773
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 20002000263#69,636

Reference works 4

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Mikhael mean, and where does it come from?
From Arabic مِيكَائِيل (mīkāʔīl, “Michael”); this surname is predominantly found in Egypt and Lebanon. Recorded by Wiktionary and Nordic Names.
How do you pronounce Mikhael?
A machine transcription gives /mɪkaəɫ/ (IPA) for English.
Is Mikhael a male or female name?
Mikhael 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.
What are other forms of the name Mikhael?
In the etymology graph, Michael, Miguel and Michel are forms of the same name in other languages.
In which country does Mikhael have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 1.1 thousand people named Mikhael, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikhael.
How common is the name Mikhael?
In the United States, the national register counted 1,112 people named Mikhael in 2020, about 1 in 299 thousand residents.

What do you want to know about Mikhael?

Nobody replies to these one by one, but what readers ask decides what these pages answer next.

Please leave out anyone's personal details (see Privacy).

Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikhael

The 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, “Mikhael”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

See how Mikhael parses inside a full name →