Mikalah — girls' name

What the Data Says About Mikalah

The Social Security Administration has registered 895 babies named Mikalah between 1990 and 2014, spanning 25 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mikalah currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2014. The name reached its historical peak in 2005, when 321 babies received it in a single year.

Decade-level aggregation shows that Mikalah performed strongest in the 2000s, accumulating 600 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Mikalah shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in Texas, which accounts for 48 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by California and Florida. In total, SSA state-level files list Mikalah in 25 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.

No etymological entry is currently available for Mikalah 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 895 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.