Meaning not yet researched.
Michaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 323 in 2025. Its best rank was #100 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #100 in 1997; #843 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Michaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#843 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #100.
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Michaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 323 girls in 2025. Peak: #100 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 3,398 (1997).
In 2025, 323 US girls were named Michaela, making it the 843rd most common girls’ name of the year, down 101 places from #742 in 2024. That is 56 fewer than the 379 girls named Michaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #100, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,398. For comparison, it was #496 in 2015 and #1,544 in 1950.
Social Security card records list Michaela in 94 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1921 with 5 babies. In all, 53,702 US babies have been given the name, 99.8% of them girls and 0.1% boys. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 23,218 babies named Michaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,014 US girls were named Michaela; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 674. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,976 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Michaela ranked highest in New Jersey in 2025, at #441 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 Mikaela (20,719 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Michella, Mikhaila and Mikhaela are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Czech, Dutch and German. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Michella (1,104), Mikhaila (522), Mikhaela (377), Mikhayla (376), Mychaela (362), Michaila (292), Michaelah (223), Michalla (136), Mikhala (127), Michealla (54), Michalah (32), Mychala (28), and more.
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 Michaela 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 30 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| New Jersey | 18 | #441 | #414 |
| New York | 35 | #491 | #364 |
| Massachusetts | 9 | #603 | #256 |
| Arkansas | 5 | #635 | — |
| Maryland | 8 | #635 | #288 |
| Georgia | 14 | #736 | #326 |
| South Carolina | 6 | #745 | #234 |
| Florida | 22 | #755 | #418 |
| Michigan | 10 | #769 | #435 |
| California | 40 | #773 | #689 |
| Indiana | 8 | #782 | #503 |
| Pennsylvania | 12 | #800 | #356 |
| Oklahoma | 5 | #804 | #644 |
| Virginia | 9 | #816 | #372 |
| Illinois | 11 | #836 | #457 |
| Colorado | 6 | #871 | #395 |
| North Carolina | 11 | #883 | #958 |
| Texas | 32 | #912 | #677 |
| Ohio | 10 | #940 | #612 |
| Missouri | 5 | #1,041 | #814 |
| Tennessee | 5 | #1,253 | #729 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 323 | #843 | — | — |
| 2024 | 379 | #742 | — | — |
| 2023 | 459 | #638 | — | — |
| 2022 | 516 | #578 | — | — |
| 2021 | 523 | #579 | — | — |
| 2020 | 449 | #646 | — | — |
| 2019 | 492 | #614 | — | — |
| 2018 | 591 | #532 | — | — |
| 2017 | 608 | #517 | — | — |
| 2016 | 674 | #472 | — | — |
| 2015 | 647 | #496 | — | — |
| 2014 | 663 | #478 | — | — |
| 2013 | 744 | #409 | — | — |
| 2012 | 726 | #430 | — | — |
| 2011 | 778 | #406 | — | — |
| 2010 | 814 | #391 | — | — |
| 2009 | 876 | #368 | — | — |
| 2008 | 922 | #358 | — | — |
| 2007 | 971 | #340 | — | — |
| 2006 | 1,003 | #331 | — | — |
| 2005 | 1,153 | #287 | — | — |
| 2004 | 1,167 | #283 | 6 | #10,881 |
| 2003 | 1,380 | #237 | — | — |
| 2002 | 1,615 | #201 | — | — |
| 2001 | 1,827 | #178 | — | — |
| 2000 | 2,172 | #154 | — | — |
| 1999 | 2,657 | #125 | 10 | #6,348 |
| 1998 | 3,341 | #103 | 5 | #10,736 |
| 1997 | 3,398 | #100 | 7 | #7,841 |
| 1996 | 3,176 | #102 | — | — |
| 1995 | 3,083 | #107 | 7 | #7,529 |
| 1994 | 3,044 | #109 | 8 | #6,772 |
| 1993 | 1,853 | #169 | 8 | #6,630 |
| 1992 | 960 | #288 | — | — |
| 1991 | 783 | #336 | — | — |
| 1990 | 878 | #311 | — | — |
| 1989 | 998 | #269 | 7 | #6,696 |
| 1988 | 633 | #378 | 5 | #8,105 |
| 1987 | 535 | #417 | — | — |
| 1986 | 519 | #422 | — | — |
| 1985 | 508 | #434 | — | — |
| 1984 | 333 | #559 | — | — |
| 1983 | 293 | #605 | — | — |
| 1982 | 285 | #632 | — | — |
| 1981 | 243 | #696 | — | — |
| 1980 | 267 | #665 | — | — |
| 1979 | 225 | #734 | — | — |
| 1978 | 173 | #856 | — | — |
| 1977 | 170 | #865 | — | — |
| 1976 | 156 | #869 | — | — |
| 1975 | 120 | #1,010 | — | — |
| 1974 | 128 | #967 | — | — |
| 1973 | 111 | #1,051 | — | — |
| 1972 | 117 | #1,008 | — | — |
| 1971 | 127 | #991 | — | — |
| 1970 | 128 | #984 | — | — |
| 1969 | 139 | #895 | — | — |
| 1968 | 101 | #1,038 | — | — |
| 1967 | 114 | #956 | — | — |
| 1966 | 101 | #1,037 | 6 | #3,796 |
| 1965 | 106 | #1,018 | — | — |
| 1964 | 95 | #1,132 | — | — |
| 1963 | 84 | #1,197 | — | — |
| 1962 | 66 | #1,370 | — | — |
| 1961 | 72 | #1,314 | — | — |
| 1960 | 53 | #1,535 | — | — |
| 1959 | 54 | #1,473 | — | — |
| 1958 | 58 | #1,406 | — | — |
| 1957 | 69 | #1,267 | — | — |
| 1956 | 76 | #1,201 | — | — |
| 1955 | 74 | #1,162 | — | — |
| 1954 | 75 | #1,151 | — | — |
| 1953 | 62 | #1,237 | — | — |
| 1952 | 75 | #1,094 | — | — |
| 1951 | 60 | #1,211 | — | — |
| 1950 | 37 | #1,544 | — | — |
| 1949 | 38 | #1,501 | — | — |
| 1948 | 36 | #1,566 | — | — |
| 1947 | 30 | #1,777 | — | — |
| 1946 | 37 | #1,457 | — | — |
| 1945 | 27 | #1,610 | — | — |
| 1944 | 24 | #1,730 | — | — |
| 1943 | 23 | #1,820 | — | — |
| 1942 | 28 | #1,581 | — | — |
| 1941 | 17 | #2,070 | — | — |
| 1940 | 13 | #2,382 | — | — |
| 1939 | 19 | #1,852 | — | — |
| 1938 | 14 | #2,302 | — | — |
| 1937 | 12 | #2,531 | — | — |
| 1935 | 6 | #4,078 | — | — |
| 1933 | 7 | #3,650 | — | — |
| 1927 | 7 | #4,146 | — | — |
| 1923 | 5 | #5,471 | — | — |
| 1921 | 5 | #5,645 | — | — |
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).