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Michail

A rarer spelling of Michał, carrying the Hebrew sense "who is like god". Only around 225 men in Poland go by it, so meeting one sticks with you.

Michail Pronunciation

Michail is pronounced mee-KHAH-eel (/miˈxail/).

Alive in 2025
225
Newborns 2025
3
National rank
#2077

What Michail means

Where Michail comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.

Michail begins in Hebrew, in the name Mikha'el. It is a question rather than a description: who is like God? The Polish renders it as któż jak Bóg. The words do not praise the person who bears them. They point past him, to the archangel Michael who defended God in scripture.

In Poland the archangel's name settled into Michał, the form that fills class registers today. Michail keeps a shape closer to the Greek and Slavic spellings that carried east. Across the line of gender stands Michalina, the feminine built from the same root, holding the same buried question.

The Church keeps his feast on 29 September, so every Michał shares that imieniny. The meaning never hardened into a label. It stayed a question anyone can ask: któż jak Bóg.

How many people are named Michail

1 in 94872 men in Poland is named Michail. 225 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2077 among male names.

People with the name Michail 2019 → 2025
225 +139 since 2019
2020 91 +5
2021 96 +5
2022 111 +15
2023 190 +79
2024 212 +22
2025 225 +13

Michail's popularity over time

3 boys were given the name in 2025, ranking #1305 among newborns. It has been climbing since 2020.

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3 newborns with the name Michail in 2025
national rank #1305 that year

Where parents choose Michail

Michail is most popular in Lower Silesian, 358% above the national average (5 boys born 2019–2025), followed by Pomeranian (+291%) and Lesser Poland (+27%). It is least common in Masovian, 19% below average.

Chosen most
  • Lower Silesian
    +358%
    1 in 31,427 babies
  • Pomeranian
    +291%
    1 in 36,830 babies
  • Lesser Poland
    +27%
    1 in 113,458 babies
Chosen least
  • Masovian
    −19%
    1 in 177,133 babies

Michail as a middle name

Michail is a first name for 225 men in Poland and a middle name for another 23, a 91/9 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1813th, between Marin (23) and Nguyen (23).

As a first name
225
As a middle name
23
first name 91% middle name 9%
Middle-name ranking men

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