Mica
Mica is given to both girls and boys: 20 girls and 23 boys were given it in 2025 (#6,045 among girls’ names and #4,487 among boys’, #6,264 among all names counting both); 3,695 Americans have been recorded with it since 1952 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,550 Americans named Mica and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (96% of everyone recorded); the median is 35 years old and half are between 21 and 47.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mica by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mica mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mica is “a unisex given name from Hebrew, variant of Micah.”
From Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh).
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mica?
#6,045 among girls’ names, 2025
Mica fell from #4,466 in 2015 to #6,045 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 12.4 per million.
115 babies in 1990, the peak
Mica peaked in 1990, when 115 babies were given it (104 girls, #1,495 among girls’ names). The 43 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 37% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 20 | #6,045 | 23 | #4,487 |
| 2024 | 18 | #6,568 | 28 | #3,949 |
| 2023 | 18 | #6,580 | 23 | #4,561 |
| 2022 | 16 | #7,185 | 24 | #4,387 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,324 | 14 | #6,223 |
| 2020 | 18 | #6,537 | 24 | #4,228 |
| 2019 | 24 | #5,404 | 28 | #3,859 |
| 2018 | 19 | #6,425 | 19 | #5,039 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,621 | 23 | #4,415 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,591 | 12 | #6,998 |
Every recorded year (74)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,466 | 21 | #4,652 |
| 2014 | 28 | #4,986 | 21 | #4,640 |
| 2013 | 20 | #6,401 | 19 | #4,911 |
| 2012 | 25 | #5,509 | 22 | #4,483 |
| 2011 | 21 | #6,273 | 23 | #4,305 |
| 2010 | 26 | #5,360 | 25 | #4,071 |
| 2009 | 28 | #5,186 | 24 | #4,231 |
| 2008 | 31 | #4,839 | 21 | #4,651 |
| 2007 | 22 | #6,251 | 18 | #5,140 |
| 2006 | 39 | #3,900 | 25 | #3,957 |
| 2005 | 31 | #4,451 | 23 | #4,010 |
| 2004 | 31 | #4,454 | 14 | #5,694 |
| 2003 | 27 | #4,766 | 10 | #7,063 |
| 2002 | 42 | #3,314 | 16 | #4,836 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,120 | 23 | #3,679 |
| 2000 | 48 | #2,961 | 15 | #4,957 |
| 1999 | 43 | #3,085 | 5 | #11,013 |
| 1998 | 50 | #2,715 | 15 | #4,561 |
| 1997 | 42 | #2,915 | 9 | #6,432 |
| 1996 | 52 | #2,465 | 14 | #4,533 |
| 1995 | 60 | #2,225 | 8 | #6,773 |
| 1994 | 62 | #2,172 | 7 | #7,487 |
| 1993 | 72 | #1,957 | 10 | #5,643 |
| 1992 | 47 | #2,632 | 11 | #5,128 |
| 1991 | 82 | #1,756 | 13 | #4,389 |
| 1990 | 104 | #1,495 | 11 | #4,882 |
| 1989 | 104 | #1,429 | 9 | #5,442 |
| 1988 | 53 | #2,171 | 7 | #6,219 |
| 1987 | 42 | #2,470 | 8 | #5,275 |
| 1986 | 46 | #2,251 | 14 | #3,371 |
| 1985 | 61 | #1,846 | 9 | #4,557 |
| 1984 | 50 | #2,039 | 18 | #2,669 |
| 1983 | 57 | #1,847 | 7 | #5,277 |
| 1982 | 55 | #1,941 | 13 | #3,422 |
| 1981 | 69 | #1,671 | 13 | #3,343 |
| 1980 | 52 | #2,036 | 14 | #3,197 |
| 1979 | 67 | #1,672 | 28 | #1,927 |
| 1978 | 52 | #1,907 | 25 | #2,000 |
| 1977 | 74 | #1,492 | 21 | #2,247 |
| 1976 | 64 | #1,582 | 20 | #2,303 |
| 1975 | 67 | #1,521 | 22 | #2,105 |
| 1974 | 75 | #1,376 | 17 | #2,422 |
| 1973 | 45 | #1,873 | 21 | #2,014 |
| 1972 | 51 | #1,743 | 11 | #3,088 |
| 1971 | 46 | #1,895 | 16 | #2,437 |
| 1970 | 78 | #1,347 | 5 | #5,200 |
| 1969 | 24 | #2,747 | 10 | #2,991 |
| 1968 | 24 | #2,597 | 6 | #3,987 |
| 1967 | 19 | #2,938 | under 5 | |
| 1966 | 18 | #3,005 | under 5 | |
| 1965 | 10 | #4,411 | 7 | #3,449 |
| 1964 | 7 | #5,826 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 14 | #3,574 | 6 | #3,896 |
| 1962 | 12 | #3,938 | under 5 | |
| 1961 | 15 | #3,422 | 7 | #3,563 |
| 1960 | 11 | #4,087 | under 5 | |
| 1959 | 5 | #6,902 | 7 | #3,487 |
| 1958 | 10 | #4,106 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 12 | #3,613 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,578 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 7 | #5,044 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,539 | under 5 | |
| 1953 | 5 | #6,254 | under 5 | |
| 1952 | 5 | #6,137 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mica a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 3,695 Americans recorded as Mica, 73% are girls and 27% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mica: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mica, and how old are they?
3,550 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 96% of the 3,695 Americans ever recorded as Mica. The median Mica alive today is 35 years old; half are between 21 and 47.
The 2020 Census counted 3,649 people named Mica (2,702 women and girls, 947 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,355 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 111 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 918 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,150 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 828 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 539 |
An estimate, not a count. SSA’s files count people born in the United States who received a Social Security number, so anyone born abroad is not in them; before 1937 most people got a number as adults, and their survival is counted from that age.
Living estimate: SSA births carried forward with the survival rates in SSA’s cohort life tables (2024 Trustees Report) for each birth year and sex. How the estimate is made. Count: Census Bureau, first names in the 2020 Census (released April 14, 2026; names reported 100 or more times, with the Bureau’s disclosure-avoidance adjustment).
Where are babies named Mica born?
The states with the most babies named Mica are Texas, California and Illinois, with 65% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 201 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| California | 107 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Illinois | 52 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 39 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| New York | 29 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| North Carolina | 28 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 21 | not ranked | 0.2× |
| Oklahoma | 17 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Arkansas | 12 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Missouri | 12 | not ranked | 0.1× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mica with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 21,237 babies since 1880, Mica is the second most given (17% of them). In 2025 it was given to 43 of their 283 babies (15%), the third most given that year.
Spelled alike: names in the SSA national file with the same pattern of letters and sounds and at most two letters apart, and Wiktionary’s listed forms; births since 1880 and in 2025, and each name’s peak year, from the SSA national file, published May 8, 2026. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Mica
Names whose births rose and fell across the same decades, measured on each decade’s share of births.
Similar histories: each decade’s share of births, from the SSA national file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
More about Mica and names like it
- Compare Mica and MikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMica peaked in 1990.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mica since 1910.
- The top names of 1990The year the most babies were named Mica.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mica alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.