Meaning not yet researched.
Mikaela: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 241 in 2025. Its best rank was #273 in 1997.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #273 in 1997; #1,037 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikaela in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#1,037 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1997, at #273.
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Mikaela: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 241 girls in 2025. Peak: #273 in 1997 · most girls in one year: 1,071 (1997).
In 2025, 241 US girls were named Mikaela, making it the 1,037th most common girls’ name of the year, down 69 places from #968 in 2024. That is 27 fewer than the 268 girls named Mikaela in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #273, reached in 1997. That year also had the most girls given the name: 1,071. For comparison, it was #604 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikaela in 57 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1966 with 5 babies. In all, 20,719 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 1990s, with 6,905 babies named Mikaela.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 3,709 US girls were named Mikaela; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 486. In 2025 that was about 1 in 6,669 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikaela ranked highest in California in 2025, at #640 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), Michaela (53,702 babies since 1880) and Micaela (14,983 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Micaella, Miquela and Mykela are summarised on this page.
Meaning not yet researched.
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Wikidata records this spelling as a given name in Icelandic. That is where the name is used, not necessarily where it comes from.
Rare spellings summarised here: Micaella (365), Miquela (365), Mykela (208), Mickela (38), Micaelah (17), Mecaela (10), Mycaela (10), Mykaella (6), Mekela (5).
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 Mikaela 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 40 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 49 | #640 | #455 |
| New Jersey | 12 | #651 | #210 |
| Florida | 26 | #670 | #354 |
| New York | 21 | #779 | #453 |
| Maryland | 6 | #807 | #520 |
| Texas | 37 | #815 | #678 |
| Arizona | 6 | #996 | #759 |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,080 | #662 |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,166 | #1,147 |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,352 | #751 |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,389 | #1,037 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 241 | #1,037 | — | — |
| 2024 | 268 | #968 | — | — |
| 2023 | 339 | #820 | — | — |
| 2022 | 425 | #690 | — | — |
| 2021 | 363 | #782 | — | — |
| 2020 | 360 | #759 | — | — |
| 2019 | 394 | #722 | — | — |
| 2018 | 432 | #677 | — | — |
| 2017 | 401 | #717 | — | — |
| 2016 | 486 | #616 | — | — |
| 2015 | 486 | #604 | — | — |
| 2014 | 531 | #577 | — | — |
| 2013 | 453 | #619 | — | — |
| 2012 | 497 | #587 | — | — |
| 2011 | 673 | #452 | — | — |
| 2010 | 717 | #432 | — | — |
| 2009 | 601 | #502 | — | — |
| 2008 | 577 | #534 | — | — |
| 2007 | 446 | #665 | — | — |
| 2006 | 450 | #641 | — | — |
| 2005 | 507 | #568 | — | — |
| 2004 | 514 | #555 | — | — |
| 2003 | 513 | #546 | — | — |
| 2002 | 571 | #490 | — | — |
| 2001 | 639 | #434 | — | — |
| 2000 | 759 | #381 | — | — |
| 1999 | 862 | #349 | — | — |
| 1998 | 1,021 | #296 | — | — |
| 1997 | 1,071 | #273 | — | — |
| 1996 | 1,040 | #280 | — | — |
| 1995 | 838 | #324 | — | — |
| 1994 | 862 | #315 | — | — |
| 1993 | 441 | #542 | — | — |
| 1992 | 253 | #798 | — | — |
| 1991 | 252 | #816 | — | — |
| 1990 | 265 | #773 | — | — |
| 1989 | 204 | #902 | — | — |
| 1988 | 145 | #1,090 | — | — |
| 1987 | 136 | #1,108 | — | — |
| 1986 | 130 | #1,121 | — | — |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,088 | — | — |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,745 | — | — |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,830 | — | — |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,351 | — | — |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,046 | — | — |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,921 | — | — |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,968 | — | — |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,863 | — | — |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,861 | — | — |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,772 | — | — |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,288 | — | — |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,620 | — | — |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,148 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,021 | — | — |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,154 | — | — |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,671 | — | — |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,273 | — | — |
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).