Mikhail

Where Mikhail comes from

Wiktionary's etymology listing comes up empty for Mikhail.

Mikhail through the years
  1. 1814
    Mikhail Bakunin born
    Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher
  2. 1931
    Mikhail Gorbachev born
    leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991
  3. 1968
    First appearance
    #4,136 among boys with 5 babies, the first year at least five got the name.
  4. 1990
    Peak, #949
    119 babies named Mikhail, its best rank.
In the dictionary

Wiktionary has no entry for this spelling.

Namesakes
  • Mikhail Gorbachev · leader of the Soviet Union from 1985 to 1991, 1931–2022
  • Mikhail Bakunin · Russian revolutionary anarchist and philosopher, 1814–1876
  • Mikhail Lermontov · Russian writer, poet and painter, 1814–1841
  • Mikhail Bulgakov · Russian author, 1891–1940
  • Mikhail Sholokhov · Soviet writer, 1905–1984

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.