Mihaï
given name · Latin script
Recorded as a male name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mihaï is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Moldova than in any other country. Recorded meaning: Clipping of Mihail, from Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ (Mixailŭ), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).
- MDMoldova1 in 419(measured from records)
- ISIceland1 in 4.8K
- DKDenmark1 in 14K
carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Moldova (measured from records)
- Sources
- 215 (measured from records)
- 1 in 419 (inferred from the name graph)
8,027 people
Highest-authority source
Moldova
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
One other spelling is counted as the same name:
Locally spelled Mihai in ES Spain, US United States.
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)
- Old Church SlavonicМихаилъMixailŭ(measured from records)
- Ancient GreekΜιχαήλMikhaḗl(measured from records)
- Hebrewמִיכָאֵלmīḵāʾēl“Michael”(measured from records)
Clipping of Mihail, from Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ (Mixailŭ), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”).
Sources 2
- 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples)
- Wiktionary
Attested across 16 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mihaï 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.
8,027 people counted by e-services.md — living population register. 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: e-services.md — living population register; INE — Padrón per-token widgets (current living counts, given + apellidos); INE — Nombres más frecuentes (Padrón Municipal); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); dane.gov.pl — PESEL given names (first + second name position, 2026-01-20); Danmarks Statistik — Hvor mange hedder...? (living-population name counts); Þjóðskrá Íslands — Name frequencies (NafnTíðni, registry). 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).
Evidence(measured from records)
No register attests this spelling yet
Frequently asked questions
- What does the name Mihaï mean, and where does it come from?
- Clipping of Mihail, from Old Church Slavonic Михаилъ (Mixailŭ), from Ancient Greek Μιχαήλ (Mikhaḗl), from Hebrew מִיכָאֵל (mīḵāʾēl, “Michael”, literally “Who is like God?”). Recorded by 국립국어원 외래어 표기 용례 자료 (NIKL loanword/foreign-name transcription examples) and Wiktionary.
- Is Mihaï a male or female name?
- Mihaï 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 Mihaï have the most bearers?
- In Moldova, the national register counted about 8.0 thousand people named Mihaï, more than in any other country we hold.
- Where is Mihaï most common?
- Mihaï is densest in Moldova, where the national register counts about 1 in 419 people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mihaï?
- In Moldova, the national register counted 8,027 people named Mihaï, about 1 in 419 residents.
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curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/miha%C3%AFThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
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, “Mihaï”. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.