Micaela
Micaela was given to 174 girls in 2025, #1,286 among girls’ names; 14,983 Americans have been recorded with it since 1895 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 13,800 Americans named Micaela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (92% of everyone recorded); the median is 27 years old and half are between 16 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Micaela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Micaela mean?
Wiktionary, Spanish section
Micaela is “a female given name, equivalent to English Michaela”
/mikaˈela/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Spanish section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Micaela?
#1,286 among girls’ names, 2025
Micaela fell from #1,137 in 2015 to #1,286 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.12 to 0.11 per 1,000.
585 babies in 1995, the peak
Micaela peaked in 1995, when 585 girls were given it, #439 among girls’ names. The 174 births of 2025 are 30% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 174 | #1,286 | 0.11 |
| 2024 | 217 | #1,118 | 0.13 |
| 2023 | 237 | #1,059 | 0.15 |
| 2022 | 229 | #1,093 | 0.14 |
| 2021 | 233 | #1,078 | 0.14 |
| 2020 | 232 | #1,069 | 0.14 |
| 2019 | 249 | #1,034 | 0.15 |
| 2018 | 213 | #1,146 | 0.13 |
| 2017 | 240 | #1,067 | 0.14 |
| 2016 | 247 | #1,060 | 0.14 |
Every recorded year (122)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 223 | #1,137 | 0.12 |
| 2014 | 236 | #1,086 | 0.13 |
| 2013 | 187 | #1,270 | 0.11 |
| 2012 | 244 | #1,037 | 0.14 |
| 2011 | 213 | #1,154 | 0.12 |
| 2010 | 268 | #956 | 0.15 |
| 2009 | 233 | #1,099 | 0.13 |
| 2008 | 278 | #966 | 0.15 |
| 2007 | 263 | #1,009 | 0.14 |
| 2006 | 273 | #958 | 0.14 |
| 2005 | 298 | #851 | 0.16 |
| 2004 | 310 | #811 | 0.17 |
| 2003 | 343 | #744 | 0.19 |
| 2002 | 321 | #754 | 0.18 |
| 2001 | 370 | #676 | 0.21 |
| 2000 | 417 | #609 | 0.23 |
| 1999 | 482 | #526 | 0.27 |
| 1998 | 557 | #463 | 0.32 |
| 1997 | 542 | #463 | 0.31 |
| 1996 | 555 | #451 | 0.32 |
| 1995 | 585 | #439 | 0.33 |
| 1994 | 540 | #468 | 0.30 |
| 1993 | 345 | #646 | 0.19 |
| 1992 | 254 | #793 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 254 | #805 | 0.14 |
| 1990 | 245 | #810 | 0.13 |
| 1989 | 204 | #898 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 202 | #875 | 0.11 |
| 1987 | 190 | #889 | 0.11 |
| 1986 | 178 | #907 | 0.10 |
| 1985 | 365 | #546 | 0.21 |
| 1984 | 120 | #1,140 | 0.07 |
| 1983 | 105 | #1,216 | 0.06 |
| 1982 | 110 | #1,216 | 0.06 |
| 1981 | 105 | #1,243 | 0.06 |
| 1980 | 96 | #1,325 | 0.06 |
| 1979 | 93 | #1,334 | 0.06 |
| 1978 | 66 | #1,624 | 0.04 |
| 1977 | 70 | #1,549 | 0.05 |
| 1976 | 73 | #1,440 | 0.05 |
| 1975 | 57 | #1,684 | 0.04 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,607 | 0.04 |
| 1973 | 44 | #1,902 | 0.03 |
| 1972 | 53 | #1,687 | 0.03 |
| 1971 | 37 | #2,200 | 0.02 |
| 1970 | 34 | #2,293 | 0.02 |
| 1969 | 35 | #2,161 | 0.02 |
| 1968 | 28 | #2,342 | 0.02 |
| 1967 | 26 | #2,409 | 0.02 |
| 1966 | 34 | #2,006 | 0.02 |
| 1965 | 21 | #2,726 | 0.01 |
| 1964 | 32 | #2,137 | 0.02 |
| 1963 | 21 | #2,753 | 0.01 |
| 1962 | 23 | #2,579 | 0.01 |
| 1961 | 22 | #2,653 | 0.01 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,788 | 0.01 |
| 1959 | 35 | #1,904 | 0.02 |
| 1958 | 23 | #2,430 | 0.01 |
| 1957 | 24 | #2,328 | 0.01 |
| 1956 | 25 | #2,229 | 0.01 |
| 1955 | 34 | #1,828 | 0.02 |
| 1954 | 30 | #1,931 | 0.02 |
| 1953 | 33 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1952 | 28 | #1,917 | 0.02 |
| 1951 | 25 | #2,003 | 0.01 |
| 1950 | 32 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1949 | 25 | #1,948 | 0.01 |
| 1948 | 44 | #1,398 | 0.03 |
| 1947 | 38 | #1,534 | 0.02 |
| 1946 | 29 | #1,667 | 0.02 |
| 1945 | 23 | #1,781 | 0.02 |
| 1944 | 20 | #1,950 | 0.02 |
| 1943 | 20 | #1,978 | 0.01 |
| 1942 | 24 | #1,746 | 0.02 |
| 1941 | 34 | #1,329 | 0.03 |
| 1940 | 24 | #1,623 | 0.02 |
| 1939 | 21 | #1,712 | 0.02 |
| 1938 | 19 | #1,852 | 0.02 |
| 1937 | 27 | #1,439 | 0.03 |
| 1936 | 23 | #1,578 | 0.02 |
| 1935 | 26 | #1,475 | 0.02 |
| 1934 | 20 | #1,751 | 0.02 |
| 1933 | 19 | #1,818 | 0.02 |
| 1932 | 19 | #1,860 | 0.02 |
| 1931 | 25 | #1,536 | 0.02 |
| 1930 | 34 | #1,310 | 0.03 |
| 1929 | 40 | #1,189 | 0.04 |
| 1928 | 34 | #1,328 | 0.03 |
| 1927 | 38 | #1,296 | 0.03 |
| 1926 | 28 | #1,575 | 0.02 |
| 1925 | 39 | #1,266 | 0.03 |
| 1924 | 46 | #1,163 | 0.04 |
| 1923 | 27 | #1,624 | 0.02 |
| 1922 | 26 | #1,672 | 0.02 |
| 1921 | 30 | #1,530 | 0.02 |
| 1920 | 35 | #1,340 | 0.03 |
| 1919 | 27 | #1,550 | 0.02 |
| 1918 | 24 | #1,673 | 0.02 |
| 1917 | 19 | #1,894 | 0.02 |
| 1916 | 16 | #2,097 | 0.02 |
| 1915 | 17 | #1,933 | 0.02 |
| 1914 | 13 | #1,979 | 0.02 |
| 1913 | 17 | #1,447 | 0.03 |
| 1912 | 13 | #1,590 | 0.02 |
| 1911 | 7 | #2,115 | 0.02 |
| 1910 | 7 | #2,070 | 0.02 |
| 1909 | 9 | #1,560 | 0.03 |
| 1907 | 5 | #2,279 | 0.02 |
| 1906 | 8 | #1,514 | 0.03 |
| 1904 | 7 | #1,600 | 0.03 |
| 1900 | 5 | #2,125 | 0.02 |
| 1895 | 7 | #1,386 | 0.03 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Micaela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Micaela has been given almost only to girls: 6 boys in 122 years of records.
Girls and boys named Micaela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Micaela, and how old are they?
13,800 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 92% of the 14,983 Americans ever recorded as Micaela. The median Micaela alive today is 27 years old; half are between 16 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 18,047 people named Micaela (18,012 women and girls, 35 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 12,764 born in the U.S. The Census count is 41% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 126 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 416 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 774 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,260 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 5,350 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,900 |
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 Micaela born?
The states with the most babies named Micaela are Texas, California and Florida, with 69% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 35 | #855 | 1.9× |
| California | 31 | #929 | 1.4× |
| Florida | 24 | #707 | 1.3× |
| New York | 9 | #1,481 | 0.7× |
| Illinois | 7 | #1,198 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 7 | #1,003 | 0.9× |
| Arizona | 7 | #883 | 1.4× |
| Massachusetts | 5 | #965 | 1.0× |
| Alabama | 5 | #910 | 0.2× |
Where Micaela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Micaela is most over-represented in Texas: since 1910 it was given 1.9 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Micaela 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 104,419 babies since 1880, Micaela is the third most given (14% of them). In 2025 it was given to 174 of their 793 babies (22%), again the third most given.
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 Micaela
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 Micaela and names like it
- Compare Micaela and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMicaela peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Micaela since 1910.
- Spanish namesWiktionary’s origin for Micaela: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Micaela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Micaela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.