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Mihailo

Gender
Boy
Say it
mee-HY-loh
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#8,239 for boys

Mihailo is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God”. In 2025 it ranked 8,239th for boys in the US (9 babies).

What does Mihailo mean?

Hebrew: Serbian form of Michael

“who is like God”

Mihailo Obrenovic III was a nineteenth-century Prince of Serbia.

Is Mihailo a girl's or a boy's name?

Mihailo is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 9 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mihailo in the UK?

No boys in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2019, with 5 boys.

2004Busiest: 5 in 20192021
Mihailo in the UK, year by year
YearBoysRank
20213#4,989
20200–
20195#3,597
20180–
20170–
20160–
20150–
20140–
20133#4,884
20124#4,147
20110–
20103#4,865
20090–
20080–
20070–
20064#3,522
20050–
20043#3,792

How popular is Mihailo in the US?

Rank in 2025
8,239th among boys
Babies in 2025
9 about 1 in 190,000 boys
Five-year trend
Too rare to call too few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1% chance among 15 boys

In 2025, 9 boys in the US were named Mihailo, making it the 8,239th most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 8,734th. Its busiest year was 2018, with 10 boys. It first appears in the records in 2003.

2025 had more boys named Mihailo than any year since 2018.

Half of all the boys named Mihailo in the US since 1880 were born between 2011 and 2021, the years shaded on the chart below.

2003Busiest: 10 in 20182025
Mihailo in the US, year by year
YearBoysRank
20259#8,239
20248#8,982
20238#8,916
20226#10,855
20218#8,820
20208#8,734
20198#8,883
201810#7,613
20170–
20167#9,659
20155#12,080
20145#12,102
20130–
20127#9,703
20119#8,072
20105#12,224
20090–
20087#9,864
20077#9,782
20065#12,048
20050–
20040–
20036#9,574

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mihailo: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mihailo, updated 20 October 2026.