Mica
- #5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births
- #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
- Given to girls 73.4% of the time
Showing
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,713since 1952
Mica over time
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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #3,896 | 28 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #3,283 | 42 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #2,216 | 60 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #2,167 | 62 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #1,942 | 72 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #1,752 | 82 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #1,493 | 104 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #1,426 | 104 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #2,152 | 53 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #1,839 | 57 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #1,663 | 69 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #2,014 | 52 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #1,661 | 67 | #1,903 | 28 |
| 1978 | #1,893 | 52 | #1,965 | 25 |
| 1977 | #1,483 | 74 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #1,568 | 64 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #1,516 | 67 | #2,065 | 22 |
| 1974 | #1,369 | 75 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #1,857 | 45 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #1,724 | 51 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | #1,343 | 78 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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First appearance
1952
The first year at least five girls were named Mica! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mica is popular in 2025
No state had 5 or more girls named Mica in 2025, so the SSA doesn't publish it for any state.
See more about Mica
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
- 408 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #5,917)
- 1,514 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #5,917)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1970 at #1,343 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 33 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,726
- Highest: 1 in 17,726 girls born in 1989 were named Mica (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,343 in 1970, was only 1 in 22,412 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
Era · girls
The 1970s
- 22.8% of all girls named Mica (619) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
- Mostly girls until 2021, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 57 | #3,489 (1957) | #4,983 |
| 1960s | 154 | #2,538 (1968) | #3,520 |
| 1970s | 619 | #1,343 (1970) | #1,629 |
| 1980s | 589 | #1,426 (1989) | #1,953 |
| 1990s | 614 | #1,493 (1990) | #2,325 |
| 2000s | 344 | #2,940 (2000) | #4,255 |
| 2010s | 227 | #4,403 (2015) | #5,860 |
| 2020s | 109 | #5,917 (2025) | #6,367 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
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