Mikaela
Mikaela was given to 241 girls in 2025, #1,037 among girls’ names; 20,719 Americans have been recorded with it since 1966 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 20,500 Americans named Mikaela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 13 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikaela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikaela mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mikaela is “a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikaela?
#1,037 among girls’ names, 2025
Mikaela fell from #604 in 2015 to #1,037 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.27 to 0.15 per 1,000.
1,071 babies in 1997, the peak
Mikaela peaked in 1997, when 1,071 girls were given it, #273 among girls’ names. The 241 births of 2025 are 23% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 241 | #1,037 | 0.15 |
| 2024 | 268 | #968 | 0.17 |
| 2023 | 339 | #820 | 0.21 |
| 2022 | 425 | #690 | 0.26 |
| 2021 | 363 | #782 | 0.22 |
| 2020 | 360 | #759 | 0.22 |
| 2019 | 394 | #722 | 0.23 |
| 2018 | 432 | #677 | 0.25 |
| 2017 | 401 | #717 | 0.23 |
| 2016 | 486 | #616 | 0.27 |
Every recorded year (57)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 486 | #604 | 0.27 |
| 2014 | 531 | #577 | 0.30 |
| 2013 | 453 | #619 | 0.26 |
| 2012 | 497 | #587 | 0.28 |
| 2011 | 673 | #452 | 0.38 |
| 2010 | 717 | #432 | 0.40 |
| 2009 | 601 | #502 | 0.33 |
| 2008 | 577 | #534 | 0.31 |
| 2007 | 446 | #665 | 0.23 |
| 2006 | 450 | #641 | 0.24 |
| 2005 | 507 | #568 | 0.27 |
| 2004 | 514 | #555 | 0.28 |
| 2003 | 513 | #546 | 0.28 |
| 2002 | 571 | #490 | 0.32 |
| 2001 | 639 | #434 | 0.35 |
| 2000 | 759 | #381 | 0.42 |
| 1999 | 862 | #349 | 0.49 |
| 1998 | 1,021 | #296 | 0.58 |
| 1997 | 1,071 | #273 | 0.62 |
| 1996 | 1,040 | #280 | 0.59 |
| 1995 | 838 | #324 | 0.48 |
| 1994 | 862 | #315 | 0.48 |
| 1993 | 441 | #542 | 0.24 |
| 1992 | 253 | #796 | 0.14 |
| 1991 | 252 | #814 | 0.13 |
| 1990 | 265 | #772 | 0.14 |
| 1989 | 204 | #899 | 0.11 |
| 1988 | 145 | #1,089 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 136 | #1,108 | 0.08 |
| 1986 | 130 | #1,121 | 0.08 |
| 1985 | 134 | #1,088 | 0.08 |
| 1984 | 63 | #1,745 | 0.04 |
| 1983 | 58 | #1,829 | 0.03 |
| 1982 | 42 | #2,351 | 0.02 |
| 1981 | 51 | #2,046 | 0.03 |
| 1980 | 31 | #2,921 | 0.02 |
| 1979 | 53 | #1,968 | 0.03 |
| 1978 | 19 | #3,863 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 19 | #3,860 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 28 | #2,771 | 0.02 |
| 1975 | 15 | #4,286 | 0.01 |
| 1974 | 10 | #5,619 | 0.01 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,146 | under 0.01 |
| 1972 | 7 | #7,019 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,152 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 9 | #5,670 | 0.01 |
| 1966 | 5 | #7,272 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikaela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikaela 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 Mikaela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikaela, and how old are they?
20,500 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 20,719 Americans ever recorded as Mikaela. The median Mikaela alive today is 23 years old; half are between 13 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 17,596 people named Mikaela (17,562 women and girls, 34 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 18,614 born in the U.S. The Census count is 5% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 197 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 4,810 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 10,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 5,150 |
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 Mikaela born?
The states with the most babies named Mikaela are California, Texas and Florida, with 61% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 49 | #640 | 1.2× |
| Texas | 37 | #815 | 1.0× |
| Florida | 26 | #670 | 1.1× |
| New York | 21 | #779 | 1.0× |
| New Jersey | 12 | #651 | 1.1× |
| Pennsylvania | 8 | #1,080 | 0.9× |
| Georgia | 8 | #1,166 | 0.5× |
| Illinois | 6 | #1,352 | 0.8× |
| Ohio | 6 | #1,388 | 0.7× |
| Arizona | 6 | #996 | 1.3× |
Where Mikaela is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikaela is most over-represented in Arizona: since 1966 it was given 1.3 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 Mikaela 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 106,002 babies since 1880, Mikaela is the second most given (20% of them). In 2025 it was given to 241 of their 802 babies (30%), again the second 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 Mikaela
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 Mikaela and names like it
- Compare Mikaela and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMikaela peaked in 1997.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikaela since 1910.
- The top names of 1997The year the most babies were named Mikaela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikaela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.