Maika — #6978 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Maika

The Social Security Administration has registered 492 babies named Maika between 1971 and 2024, spanning 54 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Maika currently holds the #6978 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2008, when 23 babies received it in a single year. Maika is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 241 additional births since 1985.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Maika performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 154 births during that ten-year window. Across the 6 decades of recorded activity, Maika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 34 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by . In total, SSA state-level files list Maika in 1 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Maika in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 492 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.