Michaelah
Michaelah was last recorded in 2019, when 5 babies were given it; 223 Americans have been recorded with it between 1992 and 2019 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Michaelah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Michaelah?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #17,206, in 2019; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
14 babies in 1994, the peak
Michaelah peaked in 1994, when 14 girls were given it, #6,537 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2019 | 5 | #17,206 | 3.0 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,596 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 7 | #13,997 | 3.9 |
| 2014 | 10 | #10,675 | 5.6 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,761 | 5.7 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,922 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 7 | #14,463 | 3.9 |
| 2009 | 9 | #12,122 | 4.9 |
| 2008 | 11 | #10,560 | 5.8 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,944 | 3.6 |
Every recorded year (25)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2006 | 12 | #9,705 | 6.3 |
| 2005 | 6 | #15,793 | 3.2 |
| 2004 | 6 | #15,428 | 3.3 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,489 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 9 | #10,794 | 5.0 |
| 2001 | 6 | #14,737 | 3.3 |
| 2000 | 8 | #11,438 | 4.4 |
| 1999 | 11 | #8,603 | 6.2 |
| 1998 | 11 | #8,373 | 6.2 |
| 1997 | 13 | #7,140 | 7.5 |
| 1996 | 13 | #7,003 | 7.4 |
| 1995 | 8 | #10,182 | 4.5 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,537 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 8 | #10,222 | 4.4 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,708 | 2.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Michaelah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Michaelah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 25 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Michaelah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Michaelah, and how old are they?
An estimated 220 Americans named Michaelah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 29. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 186 people named Michaelah (186 women and girls, 0 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 221 born in the U.S. The Census count is 16% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
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
Michaelah is a less common spelling of Michaela: SSA has recorded 223 Michaelah and 53,702 Michaela since 1880.
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 Michaelah
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.