The Mihai surname
In the 2010 U.S. Census, 335 people carried this name — #60,196 among all U.S. surnames, about 1 in every 909,100 people counted. That is up 45% from 231 in 2000.
In Belgium’s population register
At least 611 people named Mihai live in Belgium.
Statbel only publishes a name in a municipality when five or more people there share it, so the real number is higher. Most of them live in Brussels-Capital.
Where it concentrates, on the mapWhere they live today
Statbel (Statistics Belgium), family names of the population by municipality, 1 January 2026 — CC BY 4.0.
In Switzerland’s population statistics
138 people named Mihai live in Switzerland.
They live in 14 of Switzerland’s 26 cantons, most of all in Zurich.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they live today
Swiss Federal Statistical Office (FSO), «Surnames of the permanent resident population by canton», 2025, opendata.swiss/en/dataset/nachnamen-der-standigen-wohnbevolkerung-nach-kanton3 · names with fewer than 3 bearers in a canton are not published.
In France’s civil register
France’s register of deaths holds 84 people named Mihai.
Most of them — 74 — were born outside France. Those born in France came from 8 départements, most often Haute-Savoie.
Too few records to say where it concentrates region by region — these are plain counts, not shares.
Where they were born
Fichier des personnes décédées, INSEE — Licence Ouverte 2.0 · deaths recorded in France since 1970, by place of birth.
In the Nordic population registers
101 people named Mihai is counted in Sweden.
Sweden’s figure is from 31 December 2022, the last count Statistics Sweden published.
Counted, by country
Own calculations based on data from Statistics Sweden (SCB), surnames with at least two bearers, 31 December 2022 — CC BY 4.0 (names with 20 or more bearers shown).
Who carried it
People named Mihai,
with a public archive behind them.
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Dénes Mihály 1894–1953 · engineer -
Florența Mihai 1955–2015 · tennis player -
Radu Mihai 1840–1894 · politician
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Nicolae Mihai 1925–1999
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Florentina Mihai 1934–2019 · artist
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Gheorghe Mihai 1939– · law professor
Wikidata and Wikimedia Commons (CC0) · 10 lives in all are documented under this name.
Nearby in the index
Surnames next to Mihai.
- Migliorini 279 · U.S. census
- Mignerey 123 · U.S. census
- Mignon 240 · U.S. census
- Mignone 1,147 · U.S. census
- Mignot 137 · U.S. census
- Miguel 10,861 · U.S. census
- Mihajlovic 168 · U.S. census
- Mika 2,451 · U.S. census
- Mikaelian 482 · U.S. census
- Miklas 527 · U.S. census
- Mikolajczak 658 · U.S. census
- Mikolajczyk 1,166 · U.S. census
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