Meaning not yet researched.
Mickayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 8 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,198 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,198 in 1997; #11,590 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mickayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#11,590 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #1,198.
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Mickayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 8 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,198 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 160 (1999).
In 2025, 8 US girls were named Mickayla, making it the 11,590th most common girls’ name of the year, up 3,104 places from #14,694 in 2024. That is 2 more than the 6 girls named Mickayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,198, reached in 1997. The most girls given the name in a single year was 160, in 1999. For comparison, it was #5,963 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mickayla in 40 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1985 with 5 babies. In all, 1,872 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 872 babies named Mickayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 115 US girls were named Mickayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 21. In 2025 that was about 1 in 200,908 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikayla (56,724 babies since 1880), Mikaela (20,719 babies since 1880), Micaela (14,983 babies since 1880) and Mikala (4,018 babies since 1880).
Meaning not yet researched.
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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 Mickayla in the open dataset we use.
Source: carltonnorthern/nicknames (Apache-2.0).
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,590 | — | — |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,694 | — | — |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,850 | — | — |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,454 | — | — |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,895 | — | — |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,039 | — | — |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,594 | — | — |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,029 | — | — |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,742 | — | — |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,122 | — | — |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,963 | — | — |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,923 | — | — |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,435 | — | — |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,361 | — | — |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,046 | — | — |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,868 | — | — |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,649 | — | — |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,834 | — | — |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,980 | — | — |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,963 | — | — |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,597 | — | — |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,385 | — | — |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,483 | — | — |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,170 | — | — |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,279 | — | — |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,487 | — | — |
| 1999 | 160 | #1,202 | — | — |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,252 | — | — |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,198 | — | — |
| 1996 | 110 | #1,488 | — | — |
| 1995 | 101 | #1,530 | — | — |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,502 | — | — |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,708 | — | — |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,199 | — | — |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,321 | — | — |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,739 | — | — |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,321 | — | — |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,960 | — | — |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,207 | — | — |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,820 | — | — |
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).