Mika
Mika is given to both girls and boys: 127 girls and 34 boys were given it in 2025 (#1,641 among girls’ names and #3,421 among boys’, #2,582 among all names counting both); 8,114 Americans have been recorded with it since 1954 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 7,940 Americans named Mika and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 10 and 33.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mika by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mika mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mika is “a female given name from Japanese.”
Also “a unisex given name from Hebrew, variant of Micah.”
(Japanese given name): Borrowed from Japanese みか (Mika).
(Hebrew given name): From Hebrew מִיכָה (mīḵāh)
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mika?
#1,641 among girls’ names, 2025
Mika fell from #1,231 in 2015 to #1,641 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.11 to 0.08 per 1,000.
244 babies in 2015, the peak
Mika peaked in 2015, when 244 babies were given it (201 girls, #1,231 among girls’ names). The 161 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 66% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 127 | #1,641 | 34 | #3,421 |
| 2024 | 139 | #1,540 | 44 | #2,899 |
| 2023 | 161 | #1,401 | 49 | #2,677 |
| 2022 | 166 | #1,385 | 47 | #2,777 |
| 2021 | 139 | #1,523 | 38 | #3,156 |
| 2020 | 158 | #1,382 | 28 | #3,776 |
| 2019 | 175 | #1,313 | 50 | #2,610 |
| 2018 | 175 | #1,307 | 30 | #3,670 |
| 2017 | 203 | #1,198 | 34 | #3,352 |
| 2016 | 183 | #1,310 | 48 | #2,607 |
Every recorded year (72)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 201 | #1,231 | 43 | #2,795 |
| 2014 | 180 | #1,317 | 34 | #3,282 |
| 2013 | 169 | #1,379 | 31 | #3,464 |
| 2012 | 183 | #1,298 | 35 | #3,214 |
| 2011 | 185 | #1,285 | 43 | #2,777 |
| 2010 | 182 | #1,298 | 23 | #4,320 |
| 2009 | 148 | #1,534 | 44 | #2,787 |
| 2008 | 176 | #1,372 | 39 | #3,044 |
| 2007 | 166 | #1,429 | 39 | #3,005 |
| 2006 | 159 | #1,427 | 39 | #2,913 |
| 2005 | 148 | #1,442 | 24 | #3,895 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,582 | 38 | #2,769 |
| 2003 | 121 | #1,600 | 16 | #4,964 |
| 2002 | 118 | #1,580 | 38 | #2,582 |
| 2001 | 121 | #1,537 | 20 | #4,061 |
| 2000 | 130 | #1,421 | 33 | #2,778 |
| 1999 | 147 | #1,264 | 20 | #3,785 |
| 1998 | 118 | #1,452 | 28 | #2,897 |
| 1997 | 145 | #1,236 | 19 | #3,683 |
| 1996 | 125 | #1,352 | 17 | #3,955 |
| 1995 | 115 | #1,421 | 17 | #3,791 |
| 1994 | 106 | #1,486 | 13 | #4,706 |
| 1993 | 90 | #1,672 | 18 | #3,589 |
| 1992 | 121 | #1,370 | 8 | #6,487 |
| 1991 | 112 | #1,430 | 17 | #3,567 |
| 1990 | 83 | #1,762 | 20 | #3,126 |
| 1989 | 91 | #1,557 | 14 | #3,944 |
| 1988 | 72 | #1,761 | 12 | #4,081 |
| 1987 | 78 | #1,601 | 13 | #3,659 |
| 1986 | 75 | #1,596 | 9 | #4,716 |
| 1985 | 72 | #1,644 | 10 | #4,237 |
| 1984 | 75 | #1,526 | 7 | #5,365 |
| 1983 | 54 | #1,921 | 10 | #4,052 |
| 1982 | 52 | #2,008 | 11 | #3,860 |
| 1981 | 82 | #1,485 | 8 | #4,806 |
| 1980 | 47 | #2,172 | 8 | #4,801 |
| 1979 | 73 | #1,580 | 8 | #4,692 |
| 1978 | 76 | #1,497 | 12 | #3,330 |
| 1977 | 44 | #2,152 | 8 | #4,448 |
| 1976 | 70 | #1,490 | 11 | #3,403 |
| 1975 | 65 | #1,552 | 9 | #3,831 |
| 1974 | 52 | #1,752 | 16 | #2,522 |
| 1973 | 46 | #1,851 | 10 | #3,363 |
| 1972 | 46 | #1,848 | 6 | #4,781 |
| 1971 | 53 | #1,721 | 5 | #5,395 |
| 1970 | 45 | #1,925 | under 5 | |
| 1969 | 29 | #2,436 | 10 | #2,995 |
| 1968 | 23 | #2,685 | 7 | #3,573 |
| 1967 | 23 | #2,610 | 5 | #4,354 |
| 1966 | 16 | #3,223 | 6 | #3,798 |
| 1965 | 8 | #5,147 | 8 | #3,161 |
| 1964 | 10 | #4,547 | under 5 | |
| 1963 | 7 | #5,707 | 5 | #4,433 |
| 1962 | 13 | #3,717 | 5 | #4,444 |
| 1961 | 10 | #4,442 | under 5 | |
| 1960 | 7 | #5,526 | 11 | #2,635 |
| 1959 | 8 | #4,901 | under 5 | |
| 1958 | 5 | #6,717 | under 5 | |
| 1957 | 6 | #5,861 | under 5 | |
| 1956 | 5 | #6,582 | under 5 | |
| 1955 | 6 | #5,643 | under 5 | |
| 1954 | 8 | #4,540 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mika a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 8,114 Americans recorded as Mika, 83% are girls and 17% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mika: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mika, and how old are they?
7,940 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 8,114 Americans ever recorded as Mika. The median Mika alive today is 20 years old; half are between 10 and 33.
The 2020 Census counted 8,413 people named Mika (7,052 women and girls, 1,361 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 6,905 born in the U.S. The Census count is 22% above that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census records the name people give, which for many is the short form Mika rather than the name on their birth record, and it counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 87 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 785 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,560 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,840 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 2,670 |
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 Mika born?
The states with the most babies named Mika are California, New York and Texas, with 66% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 40 | #930 | 1.3× |
| New York | 7 | #1,775 | 0.7× |
| Texas | 6 | #3,183 | 0.6× |
| Florida | 6 | #2,067 | 0.5× |
| Hawaii | 6 | #153 | 3.7× |
| Washington | 5 | #1,192 | 1.0× |
| Colorado | 5 | #1,007 | 0.3× |
| Georgia | 5 | #1,716 | 0.1× |
Where Mika is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mika is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1954 it was given 3.7 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Mika with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
Names spelled alike
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 25,151 babies since 1880, Mika is the most given (32% of them). In 2025 it was given to 161 of their 354 babies (45%), again the most given.
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 Mika
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 Mika and names like it
- Compare Mika and MicaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMika peaked in 2015.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mika since 1910.
- Japanese namesWiktionary’s origin for Mika: every such name, by how often it is given.
- The top names of 2015The year the most babies were named Mika.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mika alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.