Meaning & origin
A reliable meaning for Mykhailo 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 2023. This is the earliest published observation available here, rather than a date for the name’s origin.
From dated birth records
Mykhailo through the years
- Babies since 1880
- 24
- 24 boys · 0 girls
- Most popular year
- 2025
- 11 babies
- 2025
- 11
- #7,524 for boys
- 2021–25 vs 2016–20
- —
- Too few births to compare
By the numbers
In 2025, this name appeared in 11 U.S. birth records for boys, ranking No. 7,524 among boys’ names. The recent annual counts are too incomplete to establish a ten-year comparison. Published U.S. population figures for this spelling include 775 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.
Mykhailo’s family of names
Inner ring: spellings · outer: across languages.
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.
- Michaelequivalent
- Miguelequivalent
- Mikaelequivalent
- Mikaequivalent
- Mikhailequivalent
- Mikkoequivalent
- Michalequivalent
- Mikailequivalent
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- Michelequivalent
- Micheleequivalent
- Mitchelequivalent
- Mihaiequivalent
- Mayconequivalent
- Michailequivalent
- Miquelequivalent
- Michielequivalent
- Mihaelequivalent
- Mihangelequivalent
- Mikhaïlequivalent
- Mišoequivalent
- Mihkelequivalent
- Michałequivalent
- Michaiłequivalent
- Міхаілequivalent
- Michasequivalent
- Mikhayloequivalent
- Mickaëlequivalent
- Michaëlequivalent
- Mihályequivalent
- Михаилequivalent
- Михајлоequivalent
- Михаїлequivalent
- Mikaeloequivalent
People named Mykhailo
- 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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