Meaning not yet researched.
Mika: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 127 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,198 in 2017.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,198 in 2017; #1,641 in 2025. About 79% of babies named Mika in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,641 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2017, at #1,198.
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Mika: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 127 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,198 in 2017 · most girls in one year: 203 (2017).
In 2025, 127 US girls were named Mika, making it the 1,641st most common girls’ name of the year, down 101 places from #1,540 in 2024. That is 12 fewer than the 139 girls named Mika in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,198, reached in 2017. That year also had the most girls given the name: 203. For comparison, it was #1,231 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 34 US boys were named Mika, making it the 3,422nd most common boys’ name of the year, down 523 places from #2,899 in 2024. That is 10 fewer than the 44 boys named Mika in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #2,524, reached in 1974. The most boys given the name in a single year was 50, in 2019. For comparison, it was #2,796 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mika in 72 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1954 with 8 babies. In all, 8,114 US babies have been given the name, 83% of them girls and 17% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 2,207 babies named Mika.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 1,626 US girls were named Mika; the busiest of those years was 2017, with 203. In 2025 that was about 1 in 12,656 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mika ranked highest in Hawaii in 2025, at #153 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Michael (4,448,633 babies since 1880), Miguel (191,562 babies since 1880), Michel (14,094 babies since 1880) and Mikael (6,239 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mihika, Meka and Meika 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 Japanese and Seediq. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mihika (691), Meka (623), Meika (613), Mikka (566), Mekai (563), Mikaya (495), Meeka (475), Mieka (230), Mykai (127), Mikaia (110), Mekka (52), Myeka (14), 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 Mika 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 43 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hawaii | 6 | #153 | #153 |
| California | 31 | #930 | #773 |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,007 | #848 |
| Washington | 5 | #1,192 | #1,064 |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,716 | — |
| New York | 7 | #1,775 | #774 |
| Florida | 6 | #2,067 | #2,010 |
| Texas | 6 | #3,183 | #1,685 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,641 | 34 | #3,422 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,540 | 44 | #2,899 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,401 | 49 | #2,678 |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,385 | 47 | #2,779 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,523 | 38 | #3,157 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,382 | 28 | #3,779 |
| 2019 | 175 | #1,313 | 50 | #2,611 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,307 | 30 | #3,674 |
| 2017 | 203 | #1,198 | 34 | #3,354 |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,310 | 48 | #2,608 |
| 2015 | 201 | #1,231 | 43 | #2,796 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,317 | 34 | #3,284 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,379 | 31 | #3,466 |
| 2012 | 183 | #1,298 | 35 | #3,217 |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,285 | 43 | #2,778 |
| 2010 | 182 | #1,298 | 23 | #4,321 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,534 | 44 | #2,788 |
| 2008 | 176 | #1,372 | 39 | #3,045 |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,429 | 39 | #3,007 |
| 2006 | 159 | #1,427 | 39 | #2,914 |
| 2005 | 148 | #1,442 | 24 | #3,899 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,583 | 38 | #2,773 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,601 | 16 | #4,969 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,581 | 38 | #2,586 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,538 | 20 | #4,067 |
| 2000 | 130 | #1,423 | 33 | #2,783 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,266 | 20 | #3,790 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,454 | 28 | #2,900 |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,238 | 19 | #3,688 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,354 | 17 | #3,961 |
| 1995 | 115 | #1,424 | 17 | #3,797 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,490 | 13 | #4,712 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,676 | 18 | #3,595 |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,373 | 8 | #6,494 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,434 | 17 | #3,574 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,766 | 20 | #3,132 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,560 | 14 | #3,950 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,763 | 12 | #4,086 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,602 | 13 | #3,664 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,597 | 9 | #4,720 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,645 | 10 | #4,242 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,526 | 7 | #5,369 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,922 | 10 | #4,054 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,008 | 11 | #3,862 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,485 | 8 | #4,808 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,172 | 8 | #4,803 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,580 | 8 | #4,694 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,497 | 12 | #3,331 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,152 | 8 | #4,450 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,490 | 11 | #3,405 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,552 | 9 | #3,833 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,752 | 16 | #2,524 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,851 | 10 | #3,365 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,848 | 6 | #4,783 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,721 | 5 | #5,397 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,925 | — | — |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,436 | 10 | #2,996 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,685 | 7 | #3,574 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,610 | 5 | #4,355 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,224 | 6 | #3,799 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,148 | 8 | #3,162 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,548 | — | — |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,708 | 5 | #4,435 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,718 | 5 | #4,445 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,443 | — | — |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,527 | 11 | #2,636 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,902 | — | — |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,718 | — | — |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,862 | — | — |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,583 | — | — |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,645 | — | — |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,542 | — | — |
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).