Meaning not yet researched.
Myka: US girls given the name each year, 1880 to 2025, from Social Security card applications. 50 in 2025. Its best rank was #1,608 in 2012.
US births per year · SSA card applications
Peaked at #1,608 in 2012; #3,198 in 2025. About 71% of babies named Myka in 2025 were girls.
Baby name · US data 1880–2025
#3,198 for US girls in 2025. Its best year was 2012, at #1,608.
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Myka: US girls and boys given the name each year from 1880 to 2025. 50 girls in 2025. Peak: #1,608 in 2012 · most girls in one year: 135 (2012).
In 2025, 50 US girls were named Myka, making it the 3,198th most common girls’ name of the year, down 283 places from #2,915 in 2024. That is 7 fewer than the 57 girls named Myka in 2024. Its best rank for girls was #1,608, reached in 2012. That year also had the most girls given the name: 135. For comparison, it was #1,931 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
In 2025, 20 US boys were named Myka, making it the 4,989th most common boys’ name of the year, up 598 places from #5,587 in 2024. That is 3 more than the 17 boys named Myka in 2024. Its best rank for boys was #4,209, reached in 2007. The most boys given the name in a single year was 24, in 2016. For comparison, it was #4,656 in 2015 and unranked in 1950.
Social Security card records list Myka in 58 years of the 146 from 1880 to 2025, starting in 1967 with 5 babies. In all, 3,255 US babies have been given the name, 86% of them girls and 14% boys. Its busiest decade was the 2010s, with 1,174 babies named Myka.
Over the 10 years from 2016 to 2025, 660 US girls were named Myka; the busiest of those years was 2016, with 86. In 2025 that was about 1 in 32,145 of the girls in SSA’s list for the year.
Related spellings in the SSA files include Mika (8,114 babies since 1880), Mikah (5,061 babies since 1880), Mica (3,695 babies since 1880) and Mykah (2,491 babies since 1880). Rarer spellings such as Mykaya 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: Mykaya (12).
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 Myka 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 | 50 | #3,198 | 20 | #4,989 |
| 2024 | 57 | #2,915 | 17 | #5,587 |
| 2023 | 60 | #2,842 | 18 | #5,401 |
| 2022 | 76 | #2,421 | 17 | #5,569 |
| 2021 | 71 | #2,503 | 15 | #5,949 |
| 2020 | 83 | #2,186 | 13 | #6,523 |
| 2019 | 53 | #3,074 | 15 | #6,017 |
| 2018 | 58 | #2,896 | 19 | #5,048 |
| 2017 | 66 | #2,651 | 19 | #5,053 |
| 2016 | 86 | #2,242 | 24 | #4,277 |
| 2015 | 105 | #1,931 | 21 | #4,656 |
| 2014 | 123 | #1,711 | 20 | #4,812 |
| 2013 | 134 | #1,612 | 18 | #5,109 |
| 2012 | 135 | #1,608 | 10 | #7,954 |
| 2011 | 125 | #1,689 | 20 | #4,774 |
| 2010 | 104 | #1,934 | 19 | #4,971 |
| 2009 | 65 | #2,775 | 10 | #8,112 |
| 2008 | 70 | #2,656 | 20 | #4,843 |
| 2007 | 72 | #2,593 | 24 | #4,209 |
| 2006 | 63 | #2,807 | 10 | #7,826 |
| 2005 | 60 | #2,778 | 18 | #4,768 |
| 2004 | 55 | #2,917 | 8 | #8,679 |
| 2003 | 74 | #2,296 | 12 | #6,141 |
| 2002 | 63 | #2,523 | 8 | #8,209 |
| 2001 | 82 | #2,061 | 9 | #7,326 |
| 2000 | 79 | #2,086 | 12 | #5,799 |
| 1999 | 64 | #2,332 | 10 | #6,359 |
| 1998 | 49 | #2,747 | 12 | #5,367 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,919 | 5 | #10,295 |
| 1996 | 42 | #2,883 | 7 | #7,707 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,062 | — | — |
| 1994 | 38 | #3,078 | — | — |
| 1993 | 30 | #3,650 | 6 | #8,355 |
| 1992 | 27 | #3,932 | — | — |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,269 | — | — |
| 1990 | 38 | #3,004 | — | — |
| 1989 | 27 | #3,754 | — | — |
| 1988 | 30 | #3,277 | — | — |
| 1987 | 26 | #3,488 | — | — |
| 1986 | 11 | #6,441 | — | — |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,317 | — | — |
| 1984 | 21 | #3,829 | — | — |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,815 | — | — |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,870 | — | — |
| 1981 | 20 | #3,957 | — | — |
| 1980 | 19 | #4,094 | — | — |
| 1979 | 12 | #5,634 | — | — |
| 1978 | 16 | #4,390 | — | — |
| 1977 | 15 | #4,572 | — | — |
| 1976 | 17 | #3,909 | — | — |
| 1975 | 16 | #4,072 | — | — |
| 1974 | 14 | #4,373 | — | — |
| 1973 | 10 | #5,447 | — | — |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,036 | — | — |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,114 | — | — |
| 1970 | 8 | #6,178 | — | — |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,762 | — | — |
| 1967 | 5 | #7,511 | — | — |
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).