Mikaila
Mikaila was given to 6 girls in 2025, #14,354 among girls’ names; 2,390 Americans have been recorded with it since 1984 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 2,360 Americans named Mikaila and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 25 years old and half are between 19 and 29.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikaila by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikaila?
#14,354 among girls’ names, 2025
Mikaila fell from #3,959 in 2015 to #14,354 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 21.3 to 3.7 per million.
239 babies in 2001, the peak
Mikaila peaked in 2001, when 239 girls were given it, #931 among girls’ names. The 6 births of 2025 are 3% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 6 | #14,354 | under 0.01 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,343 | 0.01 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,134 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 11 | #9,356 | 0.01 |
| 2020 | 11 | #9,347 | 0.01 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,238 | 0.01 |
| 2018 | 16 | #7,305 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 16 | #7,316 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 30 | #4,702 | 0.02 |
| 2015 | 38 | #3,959 | 0.02 |
Every recorded year (41)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 33 | #4,421 | 0.02 |
| 2013 | 46 | #3,442 | 0.03 |
| 2012 | 48 | #3,409 | 0.03 |
| 2011 | 58 | #2,980 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 62 | #2,829 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 62 | #2,842 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 84 | #2,330 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 83 | #2,324 | 0.04 |
| 2006 | 74 | #2,503 | 0.04 |
| 2005 | 101 | #1,919 | 0.05 |
| 2004 | 66 | #2,544 | 0.04 |
| 2003 | 93 | #1,962 | 0.05 |
| 2002 | 130 | #1,477 | 0.07 |
| 2001 | 239 | #931 | 0.13 |
| 2000 | 128 | #1,441 | 0.07 |
| 1999 | 103 | #1,625 | 0.06 |
| 1998 | 132 | #1,335 | 0.07 |
| 1997 | 132 | #1,314 | 0.08 |
| 1996 | 124 | #1,364 | 0.07 |
| 1995 | 120 | #1,374 | 0.07 |
| 1994 | 82 | #1,775 | 0.05 |
| 1993 | 54 | #2,366 | 0.03 |
| 1992 | 36 | #3,186 | 0.02 |
| 1991 | 31 | #3,503 | 0.02 |
| 1990 | 33 | #3,328 | 0.02 |
| 1989 | 29 | #3,532 | 0.02 |
| 1988 | 12 | #6,532 | 0.01 |
| 1987 | 13 | #5,817 | 0.01 |
| 1986 | 8 | #8,222 | under 0.01 |
| 1985 | 11 | #6,310 | 0.01 |
| 1984 | 5 | #11,542 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikaila a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikaila has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 41 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mikaila: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikaila, and how old are they?
2,360 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,390 Americans ever recorded as Mikaila. The median Mikaila alive today is 25 years old; half are between 19 and 29.
The 2020 Census counted 2,017 people named Mikaila (2,007 women and girls, 10 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 2,321 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 546 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,580 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 235 |
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 Mikaila born?
The states with the most babies named Mikaila are California, New York and Texas, with 53% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 292 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| New York | 119 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 109 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Michigan | 66 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Florida | 61 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Washington | 53 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Pennsylvania | 47 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Ohio | 43 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Georgia | 27 | not ranked | 0.3× |
| Massachusetts | 25 | not ranked | 0.5× |
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 Mikaila 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 Mikaila?
Mikaila is a less common spelling of Mikayla: SSA has recorded 2,390 Mikaila and 56,724 Mikayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 106,002 babies since 1880, Mikaila is the seventh most given (2.3% of them). In 2025 it was given to 6 of their 802 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 Mikaila
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 Mikaila and names like it
- Compare Mikaila and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMikaila peaked in 2001.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikaila since 1910.
- The top names of 2001The year the most babies were named Mikaila.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikaila alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.