Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mihailo isn’t established in our sources yet. Rather than guess, we show what is recorded: how the name is used, how often, and the names it’s connected to.
The story
Published U.S. birth records include this spelling as early as 2003. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mihailo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 128
- 128 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2018
- 10 babies
- 2025
- 9
- #8,689 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- +18%
- Rising
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 9 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 8,689 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Its largest published annual count for boys was 10 in 2018. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 227 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.
Mihailo’s family of names
In Serbian usage, Mihailo has a related form in Михаило. In Serbo-Croatian usage, Mihailo has a conventional equivalent in the Spanish form Miguel.
Inner ring: nicknames and forms · outer: across languages.
Nicknames & forms 1
Diminutives, pet forms, short forms and variants used alongside the name.
Across languages 1
Equivalents and cognates in other languages, plus older forms it grew from.
People named Mihailo
- Mihailo PetrovićSerbian association football player and managerborn 1957
- Mihailo Obrenović, Prince of SerbiaPrince of Serbia (1823-1868)
- Mihailo Petrović AlasSerbian mathematician and philosopher (*1868 – †1943)
- Mihailo I of DukljaFirst Serbian king who ruled over Duklja, Travunija, Zahumlje and Raška from c. 1050 to 1081. In the beginning, he ruled as knez but became king after 1077 after he was confirmed by Pope Gregory VII.1100–1081
- Mihailo VasićSerbian basketball player (born 1993)
- Mihailo MarkovićSerbian philosopher (1923–2010)
- Mihailo IvanovićSerbian footballerborn 2004
- Mihailo RašićSerbian minister of defence1858–1932
- Mihailo DinićSerbian historian and member of the Serbian Academy of Science and Arts (1899-1970)
Listed by how widely each person is written about, which says nothing about the name itself.
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