Mickayla
Mickayla was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,586 among girls’ names; 1,872 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,850 Americans named Mickayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 26 years old and half are between 20 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mickayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mickayla?
#11,586 among girls’ names, 2025
Mickayla fell from #5,961 in 2015 to #11,586 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 12.3 to 5.0 per million.
160 babies in 1999, the peak
Mickayla peaked in 1999, when 160 girls were given it, #1,200 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,586 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 6 | #14,689 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 8 | #11,845 | 5.0 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,449 | 6.7 |
| 2021 | 14 | #7,890 | 8.5 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,034 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,590 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,025 | 8.2 |
| 2017 | 11 | #9,738 | 6.4 |
| 2016 | 21 | #6,120 | 11.9 |
Every recorded year (40)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 22 | #5,961 | 12.3 |
| 2014 | 22 | #5,921 | 12.3 |
| 2013 | 25 | #5,433 | 14.2 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,359 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 37 | #4,045 | 21.0 |
| 2010 | 40 | #3,867 | 22.5 |
| 2009 | 32 | #4,648 | 17.4 |
| 2008 | 42 | #3,833 | 22.2 |
| 2007 | 60 | #2,980 | 31.2 |
| 2006 | 58 | #2,962 | 30.5 |
| 2005 | 66 | #2,593 | 35.7 |
| 2004 | 72 | #2,382 | 39.2 |
| 2003 | 66 | #2,480 | 36.1 |
| 2002 | 77 | #2,167 | 42.9 |
| 2001 | 71 | #2,275 | 39.4 |
| 2000 | 124 | #1,485 | 68.3 |
| 1999 | 160 | #1,200 | 90.2 |
| 1998 | 146 | #1,250 | 82.6 |
| 1997 | 152 | #1,196 | 87.3 |
| 1996 | 110 | #1,486 | 62.7 |
| 1995 | 101 | #1,526 | 57.4 |
| 1994 | 105 | #1,498 | 58.8 |
| 1993 | 45 | #2,703 | 24.9 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,193 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 18 | #5,315 | 9.6 |
| 1990 | 16 | #5,734 | 8.4 |
| 1989 | 22 | #4,315 | 11.9 |
| 1988 | 11 | #6,955 | 6.2 |
| 1986 | 7 | #9,202 | 4.1 |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,815 | 2.9 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mickayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mickayla has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 40 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mickayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mickayla, and how old are they?
1,850 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,872 Americans ever recorded as Mickayla. The median Mickayla alive today is 26 years old; half are between 20 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 1,589 people named Mickayla (1,584 women and girls, 5 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,801 born in the U.S. The Census count is 12% 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.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 450 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,210 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 183 |
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).
Where are babies named Mickayla born?
The states with the most babies named Mickayla are New York, California and Texas, with 43% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| New York | 124 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| California | 97 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Texas | 62 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Ohio | 61 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 58 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 55 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 49 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Indiana | 28 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 24 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Georgia | 16 | not ranked | 0.3× |
States: SSA state file, 1910-2025, published May 8, 2026; births count girls and boys together, and the rank is among girls’ names in the state in 2025. The file leaves out any state and year with fewer than 5 babies of the name, so small states are undercounted; each ratio compares the state’s births of Mickayla with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mickayla?
Mickayla is a less common spelling of Mikayla: SSA has recorded 1,872 Mickayla and 56,724 Mikayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 106,002 babies since 1880, Mickayla is the eighth most given (1.8% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 802 babies (<1%), the fifth 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 Mickayla
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 Mickayla and names like it
- Compare Mickayla and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMickayla peaked in 1999.
- New York’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mickayla since 1910.
- The top names of 1999The year the most babies were named Mickayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mickayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.