Mikheil
A Hebrew name that asks "who is like God". Just over 600 men in Poland carry it and no boy was given it last year, so meeting one would stick in your memory.
Mikheil Pronunciation
Mikheil is pronounced meek-KHE-eel (/mikˈxɛil/).
What Mikheil means
Where Mikheil comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mikheil begins in Hebrew, in the name Mikha'el, which spells out a question: who is like God? Nobody answers it. The question expects silence, since its whole point is that no one measures up. That same challenge reaches Polish readers as "któż jak bóg," a dare rather than a description.
Mikheil is the Georgian form of the name Poland knows as Michał. In Tbilisi it belonged to writers and statesmen. The novelist Mikheil Javakhishvili published under it in the early twentieth century, and a later Georgian president signed his official papers with it. On a Polish class register the spelling would stand out. The root underneath it would not.
The meaning holds steady wherever the spelling bends. Whether it is written Mikheil, Michał, or Mikha'el, the name asks one thing and refuses one answer: who is like God, któż jak bóg.
How many people are named Mikheil
1 in 33669 men in Poland is named Mikheil. 634 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1185 among male names.