Given name & surname · also Ancient Greek
Mihael
“who is like God?”
Mihael is a masculine given name from Ancient Greek, ultimately from Biblical Hebrew. It is used in Serbo-Croatian and Slovene.
Meaning & origin
What it means
Mihael goes back to Latin Michael, meaning “who is like God?”
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
Where it comes from
Mihael comes from Ancient Greek, and ultimately from Biblical Hebrew.
Adapted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0)
How it developed
From Ancient Greek Μῐχᾱήλ, from Biblical Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl).
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The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 1962. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mihael through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 22
- 22 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 1986
- 7 babies
- 2025
- 0
- Outside the ranked list
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
The most recent published U.S. birth count for boys is 7 in 1986. Later missing counts do not mean the name went unused. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 232 as a first name in 2020.
From Social Security birth records and U.S. Census name counts for this exact spelling. Other spellings are counted separately.
Mihael’s family of names
In Slovenian usage, Mihael shares a linguistic root with the Ukrainian form Михайло. In Croatian usage, Mihael has a conventional equivalent in the German form Michael. In Croatian usage, Mihael has a conventional equivalent in the Italian form Michele.
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
Around the world
Mihael has relatives in 6 languages. Lines run from its Ancient Greek roots to each of them.
6 related names in 6 languages. Point at a dot, or tab to the map and use the arrow keys.
Spellings & scripts 1
The same name written differently, including transliterations into other scripts.
Across languages 33
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
- MichaelGerman
- Miguelequivalent
- Mikaelequivalent
- Mikaequivalent
- Mikhailequivalent
- Mikkoequivalent
- Michalequivalent
- Mikailequivalent
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- Michelequivalent
- MicheleItalian
- Mykhailoequivalent
- Mitchelequivalent
- Mihaiequivalent
- Mayconequivalent
- Michailequivalent
- Mykolasequivalent
- Miquelequivalent
- Michielequivalent
- Mihangelequivalent
- Mikhaïlequivalent
- Mihkelequivalent
- Michaiłequivalent
- Міхаілequivalent
- Michasequivalent
- Михайлоcognate · Ukrainian
- ΜιχαήλGreek
- MichałPolish
- Mickaëlequivalent
- Mijoequivalent
- Michaëlequivalent
- Mihályequivalent
- Михаилequivalent
- Mikaeloequivalent
See also 1
Names our sources mention alongside this one. They are related in story or meaning, not forms of this name.
People named Mihael
- Mihael MikićCroatian association football playerborn 1980
- Mihael ŽgankSlovenian--Greek-Turkish judokaborn 1994
- Mihael BrejcSlovenian politicianborn 1947
- Mihael ZmajlovićCroatian economist and politicianborn 1978
- Michael StroySlovenian painter (1803-1871)
- Mihael Kovačevićassociation football playerborn 1988
- Mihael AmbrožSlovenian politician1808–1864
- Mihael MlinarićCroatian footballerborn 2000
- Mihael Žaperassociation football playerborn 1998
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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