Mihaela
Mihaela is a female given name with the same etymology as Michaela. It is very common in Romania, and also found in Croatia, Slovenia and Bulgaria.
- Romanian
- Slovene
- Croatian
- Bulgarian
Meaning & Origin of Mihaela
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mihaela is a female given name with the same etymology as Michaela. It is very common in Romania, and also found in Croatia, Slovenia and Bulgaria.
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Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Romanian
- Slovene
- Croatian
- Bulgarian
- Macedonian
The Story of Mihaela
Mihaela first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 2003, with 5 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 2020: 10 births, good for #9,543 nationwide. About 52% of every Mihaela on record arrived during the 2010s, its defining decade. Mihaela last appeared in the published SSA data in 2024, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 92 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Mihaela
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Mihaela. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
- Mihaila
- Miša
Names that sound like Mihaela
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About the name Mihaela
Mihaela is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2003 and has accumulated 92 births in the dataset. Mihaela's peak popularity came in 2020 when it ranked #9,543. Use the chart and map above to compare Mihaela's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
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