Mikheili
From the Hebrew for "who is like god". Just over 200 men in Poland carry it and no women do: rare enough that most Poles have never met one, and it's given seldom now.
Mikheili Pronunciation
Mikheili is pronounced meek-khe-EE-lee (/mikxɛˈili/).
What Mikheili means
Where Mikheili comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mikheili begins in Hebrew, in the name Mikha'el. Built into it is a question: who is like God? The name answers itself, and the answer is nobody. Mikheili is the Georgian form of Michael, the same name given to the archangel named in the Book of Daniel.
In Georgian, the ending shifts the sound while the sense holds firm. The short meaning stays near the source, who is like God, a challenge more than a description. Readers later heard humility in it, a refusal to place any person beside the divine.
The origin is a question. Written on a class register in a Polish school, Mikheili would stand apart from the Michałs. The name keeps its Hebrew shape: who is like God.
How many people are named Mikheili
1 in 97918 men in Poland is named Mikheili. 218 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #2112 among male names.