Mika — #1540 US unisex name

What the Data Says About Mika

The Social Security Administration has registered 6,621 babies named Mika between 1954 and 2024, spanning 71 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mika currently holds the #1540 rank among girls for 2024. The name reached its historical peak in 2017, when 203 babies received it in a single year. Mika is classified as unisex in SSA records: the opposite-sex variant accounts for 1,327 additional births since 1960.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mika performed strongest in the 2010s, accumulating 1,836 births during that ten-year window. Across the 8 decades of recorded activity, Mika shows notable generational variation in parental adoption. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 1,234 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Texas and New York. In total, SSA state-level files list Mika in 32 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mika in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 6,621 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.