Mikhail
Mikhail was given to 84 boys in 2025, #1,884 among boys’ names; 4,158 Americans have been recorded with it since 1968 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 4,070 Americans named Mikhail and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 18 years old and half are between 10 and 30.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikhail by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikhail mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mikhail is “a transliteration of the Russian male given name Михаи́л (Mixaíl).” Its etymology gives the sense “Michael” (Михаи́л).
From Russian Михаи́л (Mixaíl, “Michael”), from Hebrew מיכאל. Doublet of Michael.
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikhail?
#1,884 among boys’ names, 2025
Mikhail fell from #1,263 in 2015 to #1,884 in 2025 among boys’ names; its share of boys born fell from 74.6 to 49.2 per million.
143 babies in 2014, the peak
Mikhail peaked in 2014, when 143 babies were given it (138 boys, #1,289 among boys’ names). The 84 births of 2025 are 59% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 84 | #1,884 | 49.2 |
| 2024 | 83 | #1,914 | 48.2 |
| 2023 | 93 | #1,763 | 54.4 |
| 2022 | 87 | #1,847 | 49.8 |
| 2021 | 132 | #1,391 | 75.5 |
| 2020 | 107 | #1,552 | 62.0 |
| 2019 | 97 | #1,669 | 54.1 |
| 2018 | 114 | #1,512 | 62.8 |
| 2017 | 119 | #1,446 | 64.3 |
| 2016 | 128 | #1,384 | 67.4 |
Every recorded year (54)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million boys |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 143 | #1,263 | 74.6 |
| 2014 | 138 | #1,289 | 71.8 |
| 2013 | 122 | #1,382 | 64.5 |
| 2012 | 124 | #1,365 | 65.4 |
| 2011 | 120 | #1,392 | 63.2 |
| 2010 | 118 | #1,413 | 61.5 |
| 2009 | 119 | #1,419 | 60.0 |
| 2008 | 123 | #1,386 | 60.3 |
| 2007 | 98 | #1,603 | 47.2 |
| 2006 | 101 | #1,507 | 49.1 |
| 2005 | 96 | #1,501 | 48.1 |
| 2004 | 91 | #1,486 | 45.8 |
| 2003 | 101 | #1,353 | 51.1 |
| 2002 | 97 | #1,366 | 50.0 |
| 2001 | 87 | #1,433 | 44.8 |
| 2000 | 73 | #1,619 | 37.2 |
| 1999 | 79 | #1,463 | 41.1 |
| 1998 | 78 | #1,453 | 40.8 |
| 1997 | 62 | #1,636 | 32.9 |
| 1996 | 69 | #1,470 | 36.4 |
| 1995 | 69 | #1,439 | 36.2 |
| 1994 | 71 | #1,391 | 36.7 |
| 1993 | 65 | #1,451 | 33.1 |
| 1992 | 99 | #1,104 | 49.6 |
| 1991 | 95 | #1,122 | 47.0 |
| 1990 | 119 | #952 | 57.9 |
| 1989 | 88 | #1,133 | 44.0 |
| 1988 | 98 | #981 | 51.2 |
| 1987 | 73 | #1,125 | 39.1 |
| 1986 | 61 | #1,238 | 33.1 |
| 1985 | 48 | #1,424 | 26.0 |
| 1984 | 22 | #2,342 | 12.2 |
| 1983 | 11 | #3,785 | 6.1 |
| 1982 | 23 | #2,246 | 12.7 |
| 1981 | 23 | #2,249 | 12.8 |
| 1980 | 22 | #2,336 | 12.3 |
| 1979 | 16 | #2,860 | 9.3 |
| 1978 | 16 | #2,752 | 9.7 |
| 1977 | 6 | #5,604 | 3.7 |
| 1976 | 5 | #6,176 | 3.2 |
| 1974 | 5 | #5,733 | 3.2 |
| 1973 | 5 | #5,612 | 3.2 |
| 1971 | 6 | #4,741 | 3.4 |
| 1968 | 5 | #4,537 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: boys’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all boys SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikhail a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikhail has been given almost only to boys: 24 girls in 54 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mikhail: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikhail, and how old are they?
4,070 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,158 Americans ever recorded as Mikhail. The median Mikhail alive today is 18 years old; half are between 10 and 30.
The 2020 Census counted 12,398 people named Mikhail (97 women and girls, 12,301 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,536 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3.5 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 85 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 998 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,540 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,440 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mikhail born?
The states with the most babies named Mikhail are California, Florida and New York, with 73% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, boys | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 11 | #1,554 | 0.9× |
| Florida | 11 | #1,175 | 1.7× |
| New York | 5 | #1,952 | 1.6× |
| Texas | 5 | #2,829 | 0.6× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #862 | 0.2× |
Where Mikhail is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikhail is most over-represented in Florida: since 1968 it was given 1.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among boys’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mikhail with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 7 names spelled alike, given to 19,200 babies since 1880, Mikhail is the second most given (22% of them). In 2025 it was given to 84 of their 391 babies (21%), again the second most given.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mikhail
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mikhail and names like it
- Compare Mikhail and MikaelBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMikhail peaked in 2014.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikhail since 1910.
- The top names of 2014The year the most babies were named Mikhail.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikhail alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.