Micheala
Micheala was given to 5 girls in 2025, #16,476 among girls’ names; 1,489 Americans have been recorded with it since 1957 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,460 Americans named Micheala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 25 and 34.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Micheala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Micheala?
#16,476 among girls’ names, 2025
Micheala fell from #12,628 in 2015 to #16,476 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 4.5 to 3.1 per million.
115 babies in 1997, the peak
Micheala peaked in 1997, when 115 girls were given it, #1,444 among girls’ names. The 5 births of 2025 are 4% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 5 | #16,476 | 3.1 |
| 2023 | 6 | #14,591 | 3.7 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,130 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 5 | #16,874 | 3.0 |
| 2020 | 9 | #10,830 | 5.6 |
| 2019 | 12 | #8,937 | 7.1 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,365 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 9 | #11,314 | 5.2 |
| 2016 | 12 | #9,246 | 6.8 |
| 2015 | 8 | #12,628 | 4.5 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2013 | 6 | #15,907 | 3.4 |
| 2012 | 8 | #13,046 | 4.5 |
| 2011 | 16 | #7,679 | 9.1 |
| 2010 | 18 | #7,123 | 10.1 |
| 2009 | 21 | #6,475 | 11.4 |
| 2008 | 18 | #7,292 | 9.5 |
| 2007 | 32 | #4,631 | 16.6 |
| 2006 | 27 | #5,179 | 14.2 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,378 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 25 | #5,158 | 13.6 |
| 2003 | 31 | #4,277 | 17.0 |
| 2002 | 45 | #3,183 | 25.0 |
| 2001 | 57 | #2,652 | 31.7 |
| 2000 | 59 | #2,555 | 32.5 |
| 1999 | 75 | #2,065 | 42.3 |
| 1998 | 112 | #1,515 | 63.4 |
| 1997 | 115 | #1,444 | 66.1 |
| 1996 | 101 | #1,566 | 57.6 |
| 1995 | 91 | #1,629 | 51.7 |
| 1994 | 97 | #1,574 | 54.3 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,702 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 34 | #3,319 | 18.4 |
| 1991 | 34 | #3,262 | 18.1 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,327 | 17.4 |
| 1989 | 53 | #2,262 | 28.7 |
| 1988 | 22 | #4,112 | 12.4 |
| 1987 | 18 | #4,602 | 10.4 |
| 1986 | 19 | #4,289 | 11.1 |
| 1985 | 22 | #3,799 | 12.8 |
| 1984 | 7 | #8,786 | 4.2 |
| 1983 | 8 | #7,782 | 4.8 |
| 1982 | 11 | #6,203 | 6.5 |
| 1981 | 13 | #5,474 | 7.8 |
| 1980 | 9 | #7,179 | 5.4 |
| 1979 | 16 | #4,536 | 10.0 |
| 1978 | 6 | #9,299 | 3.9 |
| 1977 | 7 | #8,094 | 4.6 |
| 1976 | 8 | #7,036 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,064 | 6.1 |
| 1971 | 7 | #7,092 | 4.2 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,668 | 5.1 |
| 1968 | 6 | #6,743 | 3.7 |
| 1967 | 7 | #5,847 | 4.2 |
| 1966 | 8 | #5,135 | 4.7 |
| 1965 | 9 | #4,721 | 5.1 |
| 1961 | 6 | #6,338 | 3.0 |
| 1957 | 5 | #6,735 | 2.4 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Micheala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Micheala has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 57 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Micheala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Micheala, and how old are they?
1,460 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 1,489 Americans ever recorded as Micheala. The median Micheala alive today is 29 years old; half are between 25 and 34.
The 2020 Census counted 1,464 people named Micheala (1,459 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,436 born in the U.S. The Census count is 2% above that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 9 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 94 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 594 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 674 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 85 |
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).
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 1,108,484 babies since 1880, Micheala is the seventh most given (<1% of them). In 2025 it was given to 5 of their 1,059 babies (<1%), the sixth most given that year.
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 Micheala
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 Micheala and names like it
- Compare Micheala and MichelleBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMicheala peaked in 1997.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Micheala since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Micheala.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Micheala alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.