Myka
#3,167 for girls in 2025, 50 births · #4,857 for boys in 2025, 20 births
Given to girls 86.0% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 2013 · 134 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,799since 1967
Myka over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #3,167 | 50 | #4,857 | 20 |
| 2024 | #2,889 | 57 | #5,443 | 17 |
| 2023 | #2,823 | 60 | #5,255 | 18 |
| 2022 | #2,404 | 76 | #5,445 | 17 |
| 2021 | #2,484 | 71 | #5,776 | 15 |
| 2020 | #2,170 | 83 | #6,296 | 13 |
| 2019 | #3,043 | 53 | #5,813 | 15 |
| 2018 | #2,869 | 58 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #2,635 | 66 | #4,935 | 19 |
| 2016 | #2,221 | 86 | #4,199 | 24 |
| 2015 | #1,919 | 105 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #1,706 | 123 | #4,702 | 20 |
| 2013 | #1,599 | 134 | #4,981 | 18 |
| 2012 | #1,602 | 135 | #7,559 | 10 |
| 2011 | #1,679 | 125 | #4,659 | 20 |
| 2010 | #1,928 | 104 | #4,848 | 19 |
| 2009 | #2,752 | 65 | #7,692 | 10 |
| 2008 | #2,630 | 70 | #4,714 | 20 |
| 2007 | #2,568 | 72 | #4,127 | 24 |
| 2006 | #2,778 | 63 | #7,427 | 10 |
| 2005 | #2,756 | 60 | #4,631 | 18 |
| 2004 | #2,889 | 55 | #8,143 | 8 |
| 2003 | #2,282 | 74 | #5,877 | 12 |
| 2002 | #2,497 | 63 | #7,643 | 8 |
| 2001 | #2,048 | 82 | #6,935 | 9 |
| 2000 | #2,076 | 79 | #5,588 | 12 |
| 1999 | #2,307 | 64 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #2,731 | 49 | #5,159 | 12 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #2,849 | 42 | #7,136 | 7 |
| 1995 | #3,022 | 38 | — | |
| 1994 | #3,038 | 38 | — | |
| 1993 | #3,585 | 30 | #7,638 | 6 |
| 1992 | #3,866 | 27 | — | |
| 1991 | #3,207 | 34 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,957 | 38 | — | |
| 1989 | #3,673 | 27 | — | |
| 1988 | #3,225 | 30 | — | |
| 1987 | #3,424 | 26 | — | |
| 1986 | #6,156 | 11 | — | |
| 1985 | #6,031 | 11 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,726 | 21 | — | |
| 1983 | #4,686 | 15 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,716 | 15 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,859 | 20 | — | |
| 1980 | #3,992 | 19 | — | |
| 1979 | #5,427 | 12 | — | |
| 1978 | #4,242 | 16 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,425 | 15 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,812 | 17 | — | |
| 1975 | #3,950 | 16 | — | |
| 1974 | #4,227 | 14 | — | |
| 1973 | #5,191 | 10 | — | |
| 1972 | #6,558 | 7 | — | |
| 1971 | #6,619 | 7 | — | |
| 1970 | #5,818 | 8 | — | |
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| 1968 | #6,246 | 6 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,804 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Myka! It came in at #6,804, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969, when fewer than 5 girls a year got the name.
Where Myka is popular in 2013
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- Wisconsin#579 · 1 in 2,884
- Kansas#607 · 1 in 2,574
- Missouri#727 · 1 in 3,860
- Louisiana#819 · 1 in 4,030
- Indiana#1,010 · 1 in 5,967
Best ever in a state: #432 in Nebraska, 2014.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| Wisconsin | #579 | 8 | 1 in 2,884 |
| Kansas | #607 | 5 | 1 in 2,574 |
| Missouri | #727 | 7 | 1 in 3,860 |
| Louisiana | #819 | 5 | 1 in 4,030 |
| Indiana | #1,010 | 5 | 1 in 5,967 |
| Ohio | #1,026 | 8 | 1 in 6,574 |
| Michigan | #1,107 | 6 | 1 in 6,940 |
| Virginia | #1,145 | 5 | 1 in 7,257 |
| Illinois | #1,278 | 7 | 1 in 8,279 |
| New York | #1,904 | 6 | 1 in 15,210 |
| Florida | #1,994 | 5 | 1 in 16,232 |
| Texas | #2,298 | 8 | 1 in 20,122 |
| California | #2,731 | 7 | 1 in 29,310 |
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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 Myka
- 278 spots since 2024 (#2,889 → #3,167)
- 997 spots since 2020 (#2,170 → #3,167)
- 1,248 spots since 2015 (#1,919 → #3,167)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 2013 at #1,599 (134 births)
- Births halved by 2017, 4 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 13,045 girls born in 2012 were named Myka (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 32,145 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,599 in 2013, was only 1 in 13,095 (0.01%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 35.3% of all girls named Myka (989) were born in this decade
- The majority has never changed
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 11 | #6,246 (1968) | #6,525 |
| 1970s | 122 | #3,812 (1976) | #5,027 |
| 1980s | 195 | #3,225 (1988) | #4,349 |
| 1990s | 402 | #2,307 (1999) | #3,044 |
| 2000s | 683 | #2,048 (2001) | #2,528 |
| 2010s | 989 | #1,599 (2013) | #2,120 |
| 2020s | 397 | #2,170 (2020) | #2,656 |
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.
Myka in 2013
Top girls' names in 2013
Top boys' names in 2013
More about 2013
girls
1,754,746 girls got a published name in 2013; 1 in 13,095 of them was named Myka, which outranked 91.7% of the 19,279 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,587Tesla135
- #1,587Zaya135
- #1,587Zia135
- #1,599Myka134
- #1,599Amarie134
- #1,599Andie134
- #1,599Anisa134
- #1,616Aminah133
- #1,616Carol133
- #1,616Claira133
Tied with 16 names at #1,599; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,891,581 boys got a published name in 2013; 1 in 105,088 of them was named Myka, which outranked 64.6% of the 14,070 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 8.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #4,804Zalmen19
- #4,804Zayde19
- #4,804Zebediah19
- #4,981Myka18
- #4,981Aaric18
- #4,981Aaryn18
- #4,981Abijah18
- #5,171Adama17
- #5,171Adrion17
- #5,171Aleem17
Tied with 189 names at #4,981; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.