Mihai
Mihai is a boy name of Romanian origin, meaning Who is like God?
What Mihai means
Who is like God?
Mihai sits at 5 letters, and ends on a vowel, which tends to make a name sound open and carry well when called across a room.
Where Mihai comes from
Romanian names sit on a Latin base with Slavic and Orthodox layers on top, which gives the language both classical and Slavic forms of the same name.
Mihai is recorded as Romanian in origin. Browse other Romanian names.
How popular is Mihai?
Mihai is not in the current top 100 boy names we track. In practice that means a child called Mihai is unlikely to be one of three in a classroom — the name is established and recognisable, just not in heavy circulation right now.
The character of Mihai
Mihai sits in our faith group. Following that theme is usually the fastest way to find the handful of other names that feel the way this one does.
Themes: Faith
Names like Mihai
These share Mihai's themes, origin, or both — closest first.
- Ioana — God is gracious.
- Makoto — Sincerity, truth.
- Declan — Full of goodness; an Irish saint.
- Madhav — Sweet like honey; Krishna.
- Mads — Gift of God.
- Malachi — My messenger.
- Malachy — Messenger of God.
- Malcolm — Devotee of Saint Columba.
- Manuel — God is with us.
- Matej — Gift of God.
- Mateus — Gift of God.
- Mathieu — Gift of God.