Mikaela
- #1,034 for girls in 2025, 241 births
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 1,071 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 20,719since 1966
Mikaela over time
Rank among girls' names. Mikaela has never cracked the top 200 here.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | |
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| rank | births | |
| 2025 | #1,034 | 241 |
| 2024 | #968 | 268 |
| 2023 | #819 | 339 |
| 2022 | #689 | 425 |
| 2021 | #780 | 363 |
| 2020 | #755 | 360 |
| 2019 | #722 | 394 |
| 2018 | #676 | 432 |
| 2017 | #717 | 401 |
| 2016 | #616 | 486 |
| 2015 | #604 | 486 |
| 2014 | #576 | 531 |
| 2013 | #617 | 453 |
| 2012 | #586 | 497 |
| 2011 | #451 | 673 |
| 2010 | #431 | 717 |
| 2009 | #502 | 601 |
| 2008 | #533 | 577 |
| 2007 | #665 | 446 |
| 2006 | #641 | 450 |
| 2005 | #567 | 507 |
| 2004 | #555 | 514 |
| 2003 | #546 | 513 |
| 2002 | #490 | 571 |
| 2001 | #434 | 639 |
| 2000 | #379 | 759 |
| 1999 | #349 | 862 |
| 1998 | #296 | 1,021 |
| 1997 | #273 | 1,071 |
| 1996 | #280 | 1,040 |
| 1995 | #324 | 838 |
| 1994 | #315 | 862 |
| 1993 | #542 | 441 |
| 1992 | #797 | 253 |
| 1991 | #811 | 252 |
| 1990 | #771 | 265 |
| 1989 | #901 | 204 |
| 1988 | #1,085 | 145 |
| 1987 | #1,106 | 136 |
| 1986 | #1,119 | 130 |
| 1985 | #1,081 | 134 |
| 1984 | #1,726 | 63 |
| 1983 | #1,817 | 58 |
| 1982 | #2,327 | 42 |
| 1981 | #2,028 | 51 |
| 1980 | #2,866 | 31 |
| 1979 | #1,952 | 53 |
| 1978 | #3,777 | 19 |
| 1977 | #3,761 | 19 |
| 1976 | #2,728 | 28 |
| 1975 | #4,141 | 15 |
| 1974 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1973 | #6,666 | 7 |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 |
| 1971 | #8,324 | 5 |
| 1970 | #5,413 | 9 |
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| 1966 | #6,564 | 5 |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mikaela! It came in at #6,564, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1966–1969, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mikaela is popular in 2025
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
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- New Jersey#618 · 1 in 2,958
- California#635 · 1 in 3,300
- Florida#651 · 1 in 3,337
- Maryland#731 · 1 in 3,331
- New York#758 · 1 in 3,730
Best ever in a state: #79 in Wyoming, 2001.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
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| New Jersey | #618 | 12 | 1 in 2,958 |
| California | #635 | 49 | 1 in 3,300 |
| Florida | #651 | 26 | 1 in 3,337 |
| Maryland | #731 | 6 | 1 in 3,331 |
| New York | #758 | 21 | 1 in 3,730 |
| Texas | #799 | 37 | 1 in 4,339 |
| Arizona | #909 | 6 | 1 in 4,703 |
| Pennsylvania | #1,015 | 8 | 1 in 5,836 |
| Georgia | #1,075 | 8 | 1 in 5,651 |
| Illinois | #1,240 | 6 | 1 in 7,388 |
| Ohio | #1,271 | 6 | 1 in 7,878 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mikaela
- 279 spots since 2020 (#755 → #1,034)
- Biggest jump: 255 spots in 1993
- Biggest drop: 149 spots in 2024
- Debuted 1966
- Peaked 1997 at #273 (1,071 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 6 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 36 yrs · run 1989–2024
- Highest: 1 in 1,625 girls born in 1997 were named Mikaela (0.06%)
- Latest: 1 in 6,669 girls born in 2025 (0.01%)
- 33.3% of all girls named Mikaela (6,905) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
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| 1960s | 5 | #6,564 (1966) | #6,564 |
| 1970s | 172 | #1,952 (1979) | #4,868 |
| 1980s | 994 | #901 (1989) | #1,606 |
| 1990s | 6,905 | #273 (1997) | #476 |
| 2000s | 5,577 | #379 (2000) | #531 |
| 2010s | 5,070 | #431 (2010) | #600 |
| 2020s | 1,996 | #689 (2022) | #841 |
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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