Name meaning & stats
Mikhail
Mikhail means “who is like God?” (Basque origin). 4,158 US babies since 1940, peak 2014.
What it means
“who is like God?”
BasqueSpelling of Mikel
In US birth records
Peak year: 2014
4,158 US babies were named Mikhail between 1940 and 2025.
Careers
Not enough notable people named Mikhail (or its spelling family) to say anything reliable yet. That's a gap in the data, not the name.
Spelling family
1 in 13 Mikels spell it Mikhail
Names that sound the same, grouped by Heyotag. Share of US babies since 1940.
Name twins (peaked around 2014)