Mike - Meaning of Mike

What does Mike mean?

[ 1 syll. mi-ke, mik-e ] The baby boy name Mike is sometimes used as a girl name. Its pronunciation is MIY-K †. Mike is used chiefly in the English language and it is derived from Hebrew origins.

Mike is a diminutive form of the name Micah (English, German, Hebrew, and Welsh) in the English language.

Mike is also a short form of the name Michael (Czech, English, French, German, and Yiddish) in the English language.

Mike is also a variant of the name Mikhail (English, Greek, Russian, and Slavic).

See also the related form, Maik (German).

See also the related categories, english and hebrew.

Mike is uncommon as a baby name for boys. At the height of its usage in 1960, 0.557% of baby boys were given the name Mike. It ranked at #36 then. The baby name has since experienced a substantial fall in popularity, and is today of sporadic use. In 2018, within the group of boy names directly linked to Mike, Michael was the most frequently used. Mike has mostly been a baby boy name in the past century.

Baby names that sound like Mike include Meic, Mikk, Myck, Mycke, Maas, Mac, Macay, Mace, Machk, Mack, Macks, Macs, Maghee, Mahesh, Maies, Maik, Maj, Maje, Majic, and MaKay.

† Pronunciation for Mike: M as in "me (M.IY)" ; IY as in "eat (IY.T)" ; K as in "key (K.IY)"

Details of famous persons named Mike:
Author Mike Myers, born 25 May 1963, Scarborough, Ontario, Canada.
Baseball Player Mike Piazza, born 4 September 1968, Norristown, Pennsylvania.
Boxer Mike Tyson, born 30 June 1966, Brooklyn, New York.
Coach Mike Krzyzewski, born 13 February 1947, Chicago, Illinois.
Rapper Mike Jones, Houston, Texas.
Rapper Mike D, born Michael Diamond, 20 November 1965, Brooklyn, New York.
State Governor Mike Huckabee, born 24 August 1955, Hope, Arkansas.
TV Newscaster Mike Wallace, born Myron Leon Wallace, 9 May 1918, Brookline, Massachusetts.



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