Baby name

STABLE BOY · GERMANIC-HEBREW
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Maik

/MIKE/


“Who is like God”

German variant spelling of Mike, a short form of Michael, from the Hebrew Mikha'el meaning who is like God; common in former East Germany.

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How it ages.

East German generational marker; nostalgic rather than current.

The cultural moment.

Popular in East Germany through the 1970s and 1980s; now associated with that generation.