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Михайло
“who is like God”
Михайло (Myxájlo) is a masculine given name from Old East Slavic, ultimately from Hebrew. It is used in Ukrainian and Pannonian Rusyn.
Russian and Ukrainian and rskWritten in Cyrillic script. In English: Mihajlo.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Михайло goes back to Hebrew מיכאל (Mīkhāḗl), meaning “who is like God.”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Михайло comes from Old East Slavic, and ultimately from Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
In Ukrainian usage, Михайло developed from Μιχαήλ.
Михайло’s family of names
In Ukrainian usage, Михайло has a diminutive in Миха́йлик. In Ukrainian usage, Михайло shares a linguistic root with the Czech form Michael. In Ukrainian usage, Михайло has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Michele.
Inner ring: spellings · middle: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Михайло has relatives in 15 languages. Lines run from its Hebrew roots to each of them.
Hebrewwhere Михайло comes from · 1 name
Nicknames & forms 6
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Spellings & scripts 3
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 37
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- מיכאלroot · Hebrew
- Michaelcognate · German, Czech
- MiguelSpanish
- Mikaelequivalent
- Mikaequivalent
- Mikhailequivalent
- Mikkoequivalent
- Mikailequivalent
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- Michalcognate · Slovak
- MichelFrench
- MicheleItalian
- Mitchelequivalent
- Mihaiequivalent
- Mayconequivalent
- Miquelequivalent
- Michielequivalent
- Michailequivalent
- Mihaelcognate · Slovene
- Mihkelequivalent
- Michaiłequivalent
- Міхаілequivalent
- Michasequivalent
- Mikhayloequivalent
- Михалdoublet · rsk
- Μιχαήλroot · Greek, Ancient Greek
- MichaëlFrench
- Mickaëlequivalent
- Mihályequivalent
- Михајлоequivalent
- Mikaeloequivalent
- Mihangelequivalent
- Mikhaïlequivalent
- Mišoequivalent
- Миха́йлоhas masculine form
- Михаилъcognate · cu
- Michałcognate · Upper Sorbian, Polish
- Михаїлdoublet · rsk, Ukrainian
See also 2
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Михайло
- Mykhailo HrushevskyUkrainian politician and historian (1866–1934)
- Mykhailo MudrykUkrainian association football player (born 2001)
- Mihajlo PupinSerbian-American physicist, physical chemist and philanthropist (1858–1935)
- Mykhailo PodolyakUkrainian presidential advisorborn 1972
- Mykhailo FedorovUkrainian politicianborn 1991
- Mykhailo KotsiubynskyUkrainian writer (1864–1913)
- Mykhaylo FomenkoUkrainian footballer (1948–2024)
- Filaret DenysenkoThe Patriarch of Kyiv and All Rus’-Ukraine, the head of the Ukrainian Orthodox Church — Kyiv Patriarchate (1929-2026)
- Mykhailo DrahomanovUkrainian academic (1841–1895)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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