Girls' name · since 1995
Michalah
32 babies named Michalah in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 1998. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 32
- total births
- 1995–2002
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 84%
- born in that decade
32 girls have been named Michalah since 1995, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Michalah has 32 recorded births among girls since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2002.
- 32 total births
- 1995–2002 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 84% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Michalah's 32 recorded births place it above 44% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Michalah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Michalah splits its recorded history at 1997: 59% of all births land in the more recent half, 41% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2002 (5 births) -- compare that against the 1998 peak of 8 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Michalah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2002
- Peak year (1998)
- 8
- Annual births at peak, across 8 years of records
Michalah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Michalah's strongest decade.
27 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 84% of all-time use.
Michalah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
27 births
- 2000s 5
2000s
5 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 27 births (84% of all-time use).
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What to do with Michalah's data
- Michalah's decade-level peak was the 1990s (27 total births); usage has since declined to 5 in the 2000s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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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, 1995–2002 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Michalah: Baby Name Since 1995 - 32 Births, Peak 1998." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/michalah. 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 Michalah 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.