Mihail is a distinctive choice, ranked #2133 in 2025. Your child is likely to be the only Mihail in their class.
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UK Rank 2025
#2133
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About the Name Mihail
Mihail has seen a notable decline in recent years, dropping 327 places in five years. It was most popular in 2019 at #1001 — parents choosing it today are making a deliberately counter-trend decision. The name has been a regular feature in UK records since 2007.
Mihail is rare in the UK, so your child is very likely to be the only Mihail in their class.
⭐ Famous People Named Mihail
Mihail Titow — Mihail Titow is a Turkmenistani professional footballer who plays for Ozgon and Turkmenistan as forward.
Mihail Gherasimencov — Mihail Gherasimencov is a Moldovan professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps FC and the Moldova national team.
Mihail Dudaš — Mihail Dudaš is a Serbian decathlete and heptathlete.
Biographical summaries are shortened from Wikipedia and are used under the CC BY-SA 4.0 licence; those summaries remain available under that same licence.
Frequently Asked Questions
Common questions about the name Mihail
Unlikely. With around 11 UK babies named Mihail per year, your child will almost certainly be the only Mihail in their class, and possibly the only one in the whole school.
Mihail is declining: down 702 places since 2020, to #2,133 in 2025. It peaked at #1,001 in 2019.
Mihail is a distinctive choice sitting outside the mainstream UK top names. Parents choosing less common names often find their children appreciate the individuality as they grow up, rarely needing to add an initial to distinguish themselves.
Notable people named Mihail include: Mihail Titow, Mihail Gherasimencov and Mihail Dudaš. Short summaries for each appear below.
Mihail does not appear in the US top 1,000 baby names, making it a distinctively British choice — your child is unlikely to encounter American Mihails in the wild.
11
UK babies named Mihail (2025)
< 1
Expected classmates with this name (class of 28)
~0.0
In a school of 600
↓ 702 places
Rank change (last 5 years)
🏫 Who else is in the room?
In a typical UK class of 28, highlighted children share the name Mihail
Almost certainly the only Mihail in the class
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UK Popularity (2007–2025)
Rank and birth count · ONS official data
No US data available for this name
✨ Similar names to Mihail
Names with a similar style — each with their own classroom story
Mihail Gherasimencov is a Moldovan professional footballer who plays as a left-back for Major League Soccer club Vancouver Whitecaps FC and the Moldova national team.
Mihail Mikhailovich Chemiakin or Shemyakin is a Russian-American painter, stage designer, sculptor and publisher, and a controversial representative of the nonconformist art tradition of St.
Mihail Manoilescu was a Romanian journalist, engineer, economist, politician and memoirist, who served as Foreign Minister of Romania during the summer of 1940.
Mihail Kogălniceanu (Romanian pronunciation: [mihaˈil koɡəlniˈtʃe̯anu] ; also known as Mihail Cogâlniceanu, Michel de Kogalnitchan; September 6, 1817 – July 1, 1891) was a Romanian liberal statesman, lawyer, historian and publicist; he became Prime Minister of Romania on October 11, 1863, after the 1859 union of the Danubian Principalities under Domnitor Alexandru Ioan Cuza, and later served as Foreign Minister under Carol I.