Micaella
Micaella was given to 12 girls in 2025, #8,691 among girls’ names; 365 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Micaella by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Micaella mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Micaella is “a female given name of rare usage, variant of Michaela.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Micaella?
#8,691 among girls’ names, 2025
Micaella fell from #7,867 in 2015 to #8,691 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 8.4 to 7.5 per million.
24 babies in 2007, the peak
Micaella peaked in 2007, when 24 girls were given it, #5,836 among girls’ names. The 12 births of 2025 are 50% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 12 | #8,691 | 7.5 |
| 2023 | 11 | #9,402 | 6.9 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,071 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 6 | #14,533 | 3.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,362 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 7 | #13,643 | 4.1 |
| 2016 | 11 | #9,864 | 6.2 |
| 2015 | 15 | #7,867 | 8.4 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,352 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,423 | 6.8 |
Every recorded year (35)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 14 | #8,492 | 7.9 |
| 2011 | 15 | #8,070 | 8.5 |
| 2010 | 11 | #10,244 | 6.2 |
| 2009 | 18 | #7,250 | 9.8 |
| 2008 | 16 | #7,988 | 8.5 |
| 2007 | 24 | #5,836 | 12.5 |
| 2006 | 20 | #6,524 | 10.5 |
| 2005 | 10 | #10,662 | 5.4 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,488 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 7 | #13,156 | 3.9 |
| 2001 | 8 | #11,687 | 4.4 |
| 2000 | 7 | #12,676 | 3.9 |
| 1999 | 5 | #16,023 | 2.8 |
| 1998 | 10 | #9,045 | 5.7 |
| 1997 | 6 | #13,165 | 3.4 |
| 1996 | 8 | #10,207 | 4.6 |
| 1995 | 6 | #12,791 | 3.4 |
| 1994 | 13 | #6,942 | 7.3 |
| 1993 | 11 | #7,870 | 6.1 |
| 1992 | 7 | #11,267 | 3.8 |
| 1990 | 7 | #10,967 | 3.7 |
| 1988 | 5 | #13,131 | 2.8 |
| 1987 | 5 | #12,536 | 2.9 |
| 1986 | 6 | #10,400 | 3.5 |
| 1985 | 12 | #5,914 | 7.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Micaella a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Micaella has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 35 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Micaella: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Micaella, and how old are they?
An estimated 361 Americans named Micaella and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 19 years old and half are between 12 and 28. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 347 people named Micaella (347 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 324 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
Names spelled alike
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. Some are separate names, not spellings of one.
Names that rose and fell in the same decades as Micaella
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.