Meaning not yet researched.
Micaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 174 in 2025. Its best rank was #439 in 1995.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #439 in 1995; #1,286 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Micaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,286 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1995, at #439.
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Micaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 174 girls in 2025. Peak: #439 in 1995 · most girls in one year: 585 (1995).
In 2025, 174 US girls were named Micaela, making it the 1,286th most common girls’ name of the year, down 168 places from #1,118 in 2024. That is 43 fewer than the 217 girls named Micaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #439, reached in 1995. That year also had the most girls given the name: 585. For comparison, it was #1,137 in 2015 and #1,668 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Micaela in 122 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1895 with 7 babies. In all, 14,983 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 4,359 babies named Micaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 2,271 US girls were named Micaela; the busiest of those years was 2019, with 249. In 2025 that was about 1 in 9,237 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Micaela ranked highest in Florida in 2025, at #707 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Michelle (819,760 babies since 1880), Michele (226,063 babies since 1880), Makayla (108,183 babies since 1880) and Michaela (53,702 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Micalah, Mycala and Micailah are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
We publish a meaning only with a cited source and a confidence label, and never generate one. Meanings are being researched for the most common names first.
Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Portuguese and Spanish. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Micalah (135), Mycala (87), Micailah (13).
Numbers are all-time US births. Links come from Wikidata’s “said to be the same as” (P460, CC0) and our spelling rule: at most two letters different, with the same sound pattern.
No nicknames listed for Micaela in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
US girls. Rank within each state. SSA leaves out states where fewer than five girls got the name, so 42 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Florida | 24 | #707 | #563 |
| Texas | 35 | #855 | #848 |
| Arizona | 7 | #883 | #1,052 |
| Alabama | 5 | #910 | — |
| California | 31 | #929 | #899 |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #965 | #799 |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,003 | #763 |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,198 | #1,253 |
| New York | 9 | #1,481 | #914 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,286 | — | — |
| 2024 | 217 | #1,118 | — | — |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,059 | — | — |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,093 | — | — |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,078 | — | — |
| 2020 | 232 | #1,069 | — | — |
| 2019 | 249 | #1,034 | — | — |
| 2018 | 213 | #1,146 | — | — |
| 2017 | 240 | #1,067 | — | — |
| 2016 | 247 | #1,060 | — | — |
| 2015 | 223 | #1,137 | — | — |
| 2014 | 236 | #1,086 | — | — |
| 2013 | 187 | #1,270 | — | — |
| 2012 | 244 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 2011 | 213 | #1,154 | — | — |
| 2010 | 268 | #956 | — | — |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,099 | — | — |
| 2008 | 278 | #966 | — | — |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,009 | — | — |
| 2006 | 273 | #958 | — | — |
| 2005 | 298 | #851 | — | — |
| 2004 | 310 | #811 | — | — |
| 2003 | 343 | #744 | — | — |
| 2002 | 321 | #754 | — | — |
| 2001 | 370 | #676 | — | — |
| 2000 | 417 | #609 | — | — |
| 1999 | 482 | #526 | — | — |
| 1998 | 557 | #463 | — | — |
| 1997 | 542 | #463 | — | — |
| 1996 | 555 | #451 | — | — |
| 1995 | 585 | #439 | — | — |
| 1994 | 540 | #468 | — | — |
| 1993 | 345 | #646 | — | — |
| 1992 | 254 | #795 | — | — |
| 1991 | 254 | #807 | — | — |
| 1990 | 245 | #811 | — | — |
| 1989 | 204 | #901 | — | — |
| 1988 | 202 | #875 | — | — |
| 1987 | 190 | #889 | 6 | #6,670 |
| 1986 | 178 | #907 | — | — |
| 1985 | 365 | #546 | — | — |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,140 | — | — |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1982 | 110 | #1,216 | — | — |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,243 | — | — |
| 1980 | 96 | #1,325 | — | — |
| 1979 | 93 | #1,334 | — | — |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,549 | — | — |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,440 | — | — |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,684 | — | — |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,607 | — | — |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,902 | — | — |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,687 | — | — |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,200 | — | — |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,293 | — | — |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,161 | — | — |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,342 | — | — |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,409 | — | — |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,006 | — | — |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,727 | — | — |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,138 | — | — |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,754 | — | — |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,580 | — | — |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,654 | — | — |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,789 | — | — |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,905 | — | — |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,431 | — | — |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,329 | — | — |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,230 | — | — |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,829 | — | — |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,932 | — | — |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,752 | — | — |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,918 | — | — |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,004 | — | — |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,949 | — | — |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,399 | — | — |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,668 | — | — |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,782 | — | — |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,951 | — | — |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,747 | — | — |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,623 | — | — |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,712 | — | — |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,439 | — | — |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,578 | — | — |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,475 | — | — |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,751 | — | — |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,818 | — | — |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,861 | — | — |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,537 | — | — |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,310 | — | — |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,189 | — | — |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,329 | — | — |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,296 | — | — |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,576 | — | — |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,266 | — | — |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,163 | — | — |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,624 | — | — |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,672 | — | — |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,340 | — | — |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,550 | — | — |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,673 | — | — |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,894 | — | — |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,097 | — | — |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,934 | — | — |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,979 | — | — |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,447 | — | — |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,590 | — | — |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,115 | — | — |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,560 | — | — |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,280 | — | — |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,514 | — | — |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,601 | — | — |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,126 | — | — |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,386 | — | — |
About the data: counts are Social Security card applications for US births, for names given to at least five babies of a sex in a year (SSA, names.zip, public domain). Ranks follow SSA’s own order: most births first, ties alphabetical. Files retrieved 2026-10-05 (checksum on our sources page).