Mikaela

Where Mikaela comes from

The dictionaries list Mikaela as a given name — a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela — but don't trace where it came from. The record below is what the SSA data shows.

  • Hebrew
  • Vowel-ended
Along the way
  1. 1966
    First appearance
    #6,564 among girls, 5 babies — the first year at least five got the name.
  2. 1984
    Mikaela Hoover born
    American actress
  3. 1995
    Mikaela Shiffrin born
    American alpine skier
  4. 1997
    Peak, #273
    1,071 babies named Mikaela — more than any year before or since.
  5. 2003
    The fade
    The first year with half the peak's births — down to #546.
In the dictionary
  • A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
Namesakes
  • Mikaela Shiffrin · American alpine skier, born 1995
  • Mikaela Hoover · American actress, born 1984
  • Mikaela Ingberg · Finnish athletics competitor, born 1974
  • Mikaela Mayer · American boxer, born 1990
  • Mikaela Wulff · Finnish sailor, born 1990

Sources: the origin note and dictionary entry are quoted from Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0); the namesakes come from Wikidata (CC0); the milestones are worked out from the SSA record.