Meaning not yet researched.
Mikayla: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 364 in 2025. Its best rank was #82 in 1998.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #82 in 1998; #748 in 2025. Every baby recorded as Mikayla in 2025 was a girl.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#748 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 1998, at #82.
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Mikayla: US girls given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 364 girls in 2025. Peak: #82 in 1998 · most girls in one year: 3,858 (1998).
In 2025, 364 US girls were named Mikayla, making it the 748th most common girls’ name of the year, up 30 places from #778 in 2024. That is 1 more than the 363 girls named Mikayla in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #82, reached in 1998. That year also had the most girls given the name: 3,858. For comparison, it was #351 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Mikayla in 52 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1970 with 5 babies. In all, 56,724 US babies have been given the name, all of them girls. Its busiest decade was the 2000s, with 23,743 babies named Mikayla.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 5,675 US girls were named Mikayla; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 826. In 2025 that was about 1 in 4,416 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Among the states, Mikayla ranked highest in Connecticut in 2025, at #342 for girls there. It was not in the top 100 of any state. Related spellings in the SSA files include Mikaela (20,719 babies since 1880), Micaela (14,983 babies since 1880), Mikala (4,018 babies since 1880) and Mykayla (2,699 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mikela, Mikaella and Mickaela 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.
Rare spellings summarised here: Mikela (797), Mikaella (675), Mickaela (509), Mykaila (420), Mikella (400), Mikeyla (399), Micala (373), Mikeala (347), Mickala (305), Mikaelah (197), Mikylah (186), Mekala (181), 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 Mikayla 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 32 are not listed.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank 2025 | Rank 2015 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Connecticut | 9 | #342 | #205 |
| Florida | 40 | #468 | #256 |
| New Jersey | 15 | #524 | #184 |
| New York | 32 | #529 | #200 |
| Virginia | 15 | #535 | #338 |
| Maryland | 10 | #538 | #267 |
| California | 59 | #553 | #267 |
| Colorado | 9 | #620 | #435 |
| Massachusetts | 8 | #667 | #297 |
| North Carolina | 14 | #720 | #446 |
| Illinois | 13 | #734 | #470 |
| Arizona | 9 | #738 | #384 |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #749 | #357 |
| Tennessee | 9 | #799 | #816 |
| Indiana | 7 | #893 | #411 |
| Texas | 31 | #939 | #418 |
| Washington | 6 | #1,008 | #514 |
| Ohio | 8 | #1,107 | #382 |
| Michigan | 6 | #1,174 | #394 |
Births and national rank for each year SSA lists the name, newest first.
| Year | Girls | Girls rank | Boys | Boys rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 364 | #748 | — | — |
| 2024 | 363 | #778 | — | — |
| 2023 | 488 | #613 | — | — |
| 2022 | 483 | #616 | — | — |
| 2021 | 439 | #673 | — | — |
| 2020 | 552 | #544 | — | — |
| 2019 | 627 | #502 | — | — |
| 2018 | 737 | #426 | — | — |
| 2017 | 796 | #394 | — | — |
| 2016 | 826 | #403 | — | — |
| 2015 | 946 | #351 | — | — |
| 2014 | 1,041 | #320 | — | — |
| 2013 | 1,200 | #268 | — | — |
| 2012 | 1,339 | #241 | — | — |
| 2011 | 1,524 | #206 | — | — |
| 2010 | 1,722 | #181 | — | — |
| 2009 | 1,828 | #179 | — | — |
| 2008 | 1,940 | #171 | — | — |
| 2007 | 1,852 | #182 | — | — |
| 2006 | 2,253 | #154 | — | — |
| 2005 | 2,395 | #142 | — | — |
| 2004 | 2,159 | #156 | 11 | #6,831 |
| 2003 | 2,393 | #138 | — | — |
| 2002 | 2,738 | #124 | — | — |
| 2001 | 3,014 | #109 | — | — |
| 2000 | 3,160 | #108 | — | — |
| 1999 | 3,735 | #85 | — | — |
| 1998 | 3,858 | #82 | — | — |
| 1997 | 2,873 | #112 | — | — |
| 1996 | 2,284 | #143 | — | — |
| 1995 | 2,223 | #146 | — | — |
| 1994 | 1,793 | #168 | — | — |
| 1993 | 928 | #296 | — | — |
| 1992 | 413 | #566 | — | — |
| 1991 | 344 | #645 | — | — |
| 1990 | 295 | #711 | — | — |
| 1989 | 261 | #754 | — | — |
| 1988 | 143 | #1,098 | — | — |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,415 | — | — |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,831 | — | — |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,965 | — | — |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,254 | — | — |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,039 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,861 | — | — |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,464 | — | — |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,664 | — | — |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,003 | — | — |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,234 | — | — |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,757 | — | — |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,843 | — | — |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,662 | — | — |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,853 | — | — |
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).