Mikala
Mikala was last recorded in 2023, when 5 babies were given it; 4,018 Americans have been recorded with it between 1967 and 2023 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 3,950 Americans named Mikala and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 29 years old and half are between 24 and 32.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikala by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikala mean?
Wiktionary, Hawaiian section
Mikala is “a female given name originating from the Bible or from English, equivalent to English Michelle”
Also “a male given name originating from the Bible, equivalent to English Michael”
/miˈka.la/
Meaning: Wiktionary, Hawaiian section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikala?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #16,805, in 2023; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
329 babies in 1995, the peak
Mikala peaked in 1995, when 329 babies were given it (324 girls, #661 among girls’ names). It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2023 | 5 | #16,805 | under 0.01 |
| 2021 | 7 | #13,059 | under 0.01 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,035 | under 0.01 |
| 2019 | 6 | #14,990 | under 0.01 |
| 2018 | 14 | #8,026 | 0.01 |
| 2017 | 12 | #9,163 | 0.01 |
| 2016 | 19 | #6,593 | 0.01 |
| 2015 | 22 | #5,962 | 0.01 |
| 2014 | 16 | #7,537 | 0.01 |
| 2013 | 22 | #5,947 | 0.01 |
Every recorded year (53)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 19 | #6,787 | 0.01 |
| 2011 | 44 | #3,584 | 0.03 |
| 2010 | 55 | #3,068 | 0.03 |
| 2009 | 51 | #3,284 | 0.03 |
| 2008 | 68 | #2,712 | 0.04 |
| 2007 | 58 | #3,039 | 0.03 |
| 2006 | 92 | #2,120 | 0.05 |
| 2005 | 116 | #1,713 | 0.06 |
| 2004 | 125 | #1,583 | 0.07 |
| 2003 | 123 | #1,575 | 0.07 |
| 2002 | 153 | #1,285 | 0.09 |
| 2001 | 181 | #1,155 | 0.10 |
| 2000 | 204 | #1,030 | 0.11 |
| 1999 | 232 | #909 | 0.13 |
| 1998 | 296 | #739 | 0.17 |
| 1997 | 301 | #716 | 0.17 |
| 1996 | 288 | #732 | 0.16 |
| 1995 | 324 | #661 | 0.18 |
| 1994 | 287 | #726 | 0.16 |
| 1993 | 159 | #1,126 | 0.09 |
| 1992 | 87 | #1,723 | 0.05 |
| 1991 | 63 | #2,120 | 0.03 |
| 1990 | 66 | #2,041 | 0.03 |
| 1989 | 87 | #1,608 | 0.05 |
| 1988 | 57 | #2,061 | 0.03 |
| 1987 | 50 | #2,180 | 0.03 |
| 1986 | 37 | #2,658 | 0.02 |
| 1985 | 42 | #2,387 | 0.02 |
| 1984 | 24 | #3,486 | 0.01 |
| 1983 | 22 | #3,632 | 0.01 |
| 1982 | 16 | #4,648 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 26 | #3,310 | 0.02 |
| 1980 | 17 | #4,447 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,001 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 20 | #3,721 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 14 | #4,831 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 18 | #3,767 | 0.01 |
| 1975 | 7 | #7,672 | under 0.01 |
| 1974 | 6 | #8,342 | under 0.01 |
| 1971 | 11 | #5,010 | 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,851 | under 0.01 |
| 1968 | 7 | #6,035 | under 0.01 |
| 1967 | 6 | #6,541 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikala a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikala has been given almost only to girls: 10 boys in 53 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mikala: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikala, and how old are they?
3,950 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 98% of the 4,018 Americans ever recorded as Mikala. The median Mikala alive today is 29 years old; half are between 24 and 32.
The 2020 Census counted 3,821 people named Mikala (3,770 women and girls, 51 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 3,948 born in the U.S. The Census count is 3% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 118 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 1,600 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 2,100 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 129 |
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 Mikala born?
The states with the most babies named Mikala are California, Texas and Ohio, with 31% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 293 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Texas | 253 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Ohio | 171 | not ranked | 1.0× |
| Michigan | 131 | not ranked | 0.9× |
| Florida | 119 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Illinois | 103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Pennsylvania | 103 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Missouri | 97 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| North Carolina | 95 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| New York | 86 | not ranked | 0.3× |
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 Mikala 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, Mikala is the fourth most given (3.8% of them). In 2025 none of their 802 babies recorded by SSA was a Mikala (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Mikala
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 Mikala and names like it
- Compare Mikala and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMikala peaked in 1995.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikala since 1910.
- The top names of 1995The year the most babies were named Mikala.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikala alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.