Girls' name · since 1995
Mikailah
161 babies named Mikailah in U.S. Social Security records since 1995, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 161
- total births
- 1995–2014
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 58%
- born in that decade
161 girls have been named Mikailah since 1995, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mikailah has 161 recorded births among girls since 1995, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 2000s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1995 to 2014.
- 161 total births
- 1995–2014 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 58% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mikailah's 161 recorded births place it above 69% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mikailah's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mikailah splits its recorded history at 2005: 48% of all births land in the more recent half, 52% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 1996 (6 births) -- compare that against the 1997 peak of 16 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mikailah popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1995–2014
- Peak year (1997)
- 16
- Annual births at peak, across 20 years of records
Mikailah by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Mikailah's strongest decade.
94 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 58% of all-time use.
Mikailah births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s 37
1990s
37 births
- 2000s
2000s
94 births
- 2010s 30
2010s
30 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 94 births (58% of all-time use).
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- Mikailah's decade-level peak was the 2000s (94 total births); usage has since declined to 30 in the 2010s -- if you're weighing a "classic revival" angle, the trend line argues against it.
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Figures reflect SSA-reported births only; see the methodology above for the privacy-suppression floor.
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Data Sources
Data as of July 2026. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
According to the Social Security Administration, this profile draws directly from the agency's public-use baby-name files (updated June 2026). See our methodology for the full extraction, aggregation, and privacy-suppression rules.
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications, National Data, 1995–2014 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mikailah: Baby Name Since 1995 - 161 Births, Peak 1997." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mikailah. Licensed CC BY-SA 4.0.
Name Almanac is rendered directly from the Social Security Administration's public baby-name files, no number is typed in by an editor. This profile for Mikailah draws directly on SSA national and state-level files, no figure is typed in by an editor. See our editorial standards & corrections policy, the methodology behind these numbers, or report a data error. Data current as of July 2026.