Girls' name · since 1992
Michaelah
Michaelah has 223 recorded births since 1992 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 1994 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 223
- total births
- 1992–2019
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 38%
- born in that decade
Michaelah is not among the current top-ranked girls names; 223 have been recorded since 1992.
Michaelah has 223 recorded births among girls since 1992, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1992 to 2019.
- 223 total births
- 1992–2019 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 38% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Michaelah's 223 recorded births place it above 74% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Michaelah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Divide Michaelah's SSA record in two at 2004 and the more recent half accounts for 48% of all births, the earlier half the remaining 52%, a genuinely balanced usage pattern. Its calmest year was 1992, with only 5 births recorded -- set against the 1994 peak of 14, that's the full swing in one name's fortunes.
Michaelah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1992–2019
- Peak year (1994)
- 14
- Annual births at peak, across 28 years of records
Michaelah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Michaelah's strongest decade.
85 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 38% of all-time use.
Michaelah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
83 births
- 2000s
2000s
85 births
- 2010s
2010s
55 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 85 births (38% of all-time use).
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- Michaelah's usage has stayed within range of its 2000s decade-level peak (85 total births) through the 2010s (55) -- a comparatively stable name, not a fading trend.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1992–2019 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Michaelah: Baby Name Since 1992 - 223 Births, Peak 1994." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/michaelah. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Michaelah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.