Mykhail
Mykhail is a name with a single cultural origin: Ukrainian.
- Ukrainian
Meaning & Origin of Mykhail
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mykhail is a name with a single cultural origin: Ukrainian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Ukrainian
The Story of Mykhail
American parents first put Mykhail on the record books as a baby boy name in 2008, with 6 registered babies. Its peak popularity came in 2008, when 6 Mykhails were born — ranking #11,037 that year. About 41% of every Mykhail on record arrived during the 2000s, its defining decade. Mykhail last appeared in the published SSA data in 2020, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 27 Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 2000s to the 2020s.
Popularity Over Time
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Variants & Related Forms of Mykhail
Foreign forms, alternate spellings, and nicknames that share roots with Mykhail. Linked entries have a profile on Peek a Name.
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About the name Mykhail
Mykhail is a boy baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 2008 and has accumulated 27 births in the dataset. Mykhail's peak popularity came in 2008 when it ranked #11,037. Use the chart and map above to compare Mykhail'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 .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.