Mixail

given name · Latin script

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

Mixail is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country, where it is the 2nd most common given name. Recorded meaning: Transliteration of Arabic مِيخَائِيل (mīḵāʔīl).

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 43as Michal(measured from records)
  • FIFinland1 in 52as Mikael
  • IEIreland≈1 in 69as Michael

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 Mixail 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.

United States (measured from records)

3,476,721 named Michael, 2020

#3 (measured from records)

of 15M given names

10 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
726 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 43 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia, as Michal

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MichaelLatin(measured from records)
МихаилCyrillic(measured from records)
מיכאלHebrew(measured from records)
ΜιχαηλGreek(measured from records)
ՄիքայելArmenian(measured from records)
ไมเคิลThai(measured from records)
მიხეილიGeorgian(measured from records)
মাইকেলBengali(measured from records)
미카엘Hangul(measured from records)
ମାଇକେଲOdia(measured from records)

8 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 2 more, Михаил in RU Russia, Michal in CZ Czechia and Mikael in FI Finland.

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)

Transliteration of Arabic مِيخَائِيل (mīḵāʔīl).

Sources 1

Attested across 2 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Mixail 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 Mixail is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
US United States#23,476,721as Michael1 in 963.5MMichael726
RU Russia#22≈1,600,000 est.≈1 in 89#8Михаил272
DE Germany#2≈1,100,000 est.≈1 in 71listedMichael389
GB United Kingdom#3≈900,000 est.≈1 in 73626Michael482
NG Nigeria#13≈710,000 est.≈1 in 300—Michael200
CZ Czechia#3246,648as Michal1 in 43247KMichal211
FI Finland#144106,915as Mikael1 in 52133KMikael112
IE Ireland#3≈75,000 est.≈1 in 69—Michael225

3,476,721 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; ONS — Baby names England and Wales (2024); MVČR — living population register 2017; 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).

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Mixail 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 Azerbaijani, A transliteration of the Arabic male given name مِيخَائِيل (mīḵāʔīl)

    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)

150016001700180019002000Michael I of Russia, b. 1596Mikhail Bakunin, b. 1814Michel Fokine, b. 1880Mikhail Sholokhov, b. 1905Mikhail Botvinnik, b. 1911Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikov, b. 1919Mikhail Gorbachev, b. 1931Mikhail Tal, b. 1936Mikhail Khodorkovsky, b. 1963Mikhail Mishustin, b. 1966
  • Michael I of Russiab. 1596RUTsar of Russia (1613–1645)
  • Mikhail Bakuninb. 1814FRnot in their usual nameRussian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher (1814–1876)
  • Michel Fokineb. 1880USnot in their usual nameRussian ballet dancer and choreographer (1880–1942)
  • Mikhail Sholokhovb. 1905RUnot in their usual nameSoviet writer (1905-1984)
  • Mikhail Botvinnikb. 1911RUnot in their usual nameSoviet chess player
  • Mikhail Timofeyevich Kalashnikovb. 1919RUnot in their usual nameSoviet and Russian small arms designer (1919–2013)
  • Mikhail Gorbachevb. 1931RUnot in their usual nameleader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991 (1931–2022)
  • Mikhail Talb. 1936LVnot in their usual nameSoviet-Latvian chess player (1936-1992)
  • Mikhail Khodorkovskyb. 1963RUnot in their usual nameRussian businessman, philanthropist and former oligarch
  • Mikhail Mishustinb. 1966RUnot in their usual nameRussian politician, Prime Minister of Russian Federation

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 3 sources across 2 countries.

Reference works 1

  • 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 Mixail mean, and where does it come from?
Transliteration of Arabic مِيخَائِيل (mīḵāʔīl). Recorded by Wiktionary.
Is Mixail a male or female name?
Mixail 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 Mixail have the most bearers?
In the United States, the national register counted about 3.5 million people named Michael, more than in any other country we hold.
Where is Mixail most common?
No national register we hold counts the spelling Mixail itself. The densest figure for its family of spellings is Czechia's: the national register counts about 1 in 43 people named Michal.
How common is the name Mixail?
In the United States, the national register counted 3,476,721 people named Michael in 2020, about 1 in 96 residents.
How common is Mixail compared with other names?
In the United States, Mixail is the 2nd most common given name of 2,815,431 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mixail” — the 2nd most common given name in United States. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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