Mihai
Fewer than 400 men in Poland carry it, so meeting one stays memorable and most Poles never have. The name is Hebrew at root, with the sense "who is like God".
Mihai Pronunciation
Mihai is pronounced mee-KHAH-ee (/miˈxai/).
What Mihai means
Where Mihai comes from and what it has meant to the people who carry it.
Mihai grows from Hebrew, from Mikha'el, a name built as a question: who is like God? No answer is expected. The asking is the whole point, and it tilts toward humility, since no one measures up. In Polish the sense arrives as któż jak bóg.
The form itself is Romanian. Mihai is how Michael sounds across the Carpathians, a cousin to Polish Michał and to English Michael, each of them reaching back to that one Hebrew question. On a school class register in Kraków the name would read as a visitor from the south, familiar in root yet spelled its own way.
A child called Mihai is given a question older than any tongue spoken around him today. It does not demand an answer. The name holds the wondering and lets the boy grow into it. The meaning stays plain: who is like God, któż jak bóg.
How many people are named Mihai
1 in 57075 men in Poland is named Mihai. 374 people carry it in the 2025 register: rank #1535 among male names.
Mihai's popularity over time
Fewer than 2 boys were given the name in 2025. It has been stable for a decade.
Mihai as a middle name
Mihai is a first name for 374 men in Poland and a middle name for another 54, an 87/13 split. In the men's middle-name ranking it sits 1021st, between Kyle (54) and Nikos (54).
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#1019 Eliezer54
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#1020 Kyle54
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#1021 Mihai54
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#1022 Nikos54
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#1023 Szarbel54