Mikhailo
- Gender
- Boy
- Say it
- mih-khah-EE-loh
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #6,442 for boys
Mikhailo is a boys' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God”. In 2025 it ranked 6,442nd for boys in the US (13 babies).
What does Mikhailo mean?
Hebrew: Slavic form of Michael
“who is like God”
A Slavic form of Michael, close to the Ukrainian Mykhailo and the Russian Mikhail.
Is Mikhailo a girl's or a boy's name?
Mikhailo is a boys' name. In 2025, it was given to 13 boys in the US. Too few girls were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mikhailo in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,442nd among boys
- Babies in 2025
- 13 about 1 in 130,000 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, 13 boys in the US were named Mikhailo, making it the 6,442nd most popular name for boys. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 10,599th. Its busiest year was 2021, with 13 boys. It first appears in the records in 2020.
Half of all the boys named Mikhailo in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mikhailo in the US, year by year
| Year | Boys | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 13 | #6,442 |
| 2024 | 6 | #10,930 |
| 2023 | 11 | #7,284 |
| 2022 | 12 | #6,822 |
| 2021 | 13 | #6,330 |
| 2020 | 6 | #10,599 |
Nicknames for Mikhailo
- Misha 24 girls in the UK in 2025
Names like Mikhailo
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Mikko, Kairo, Alonzo, Otto, Mako, Kenzo, Zuko, Moses, Thiago, Kylo, Makaio, Chozen
Names related to Mikhailo
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
Sources
Figures from 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, “Mikhailo: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mikhailo, updated 20 October 2026.