Girls' name · since 1996
Mikayela
Mikayela has 86 recorded births since 1996 in federal Social Security data, most heavily in 2003 -- full year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state rankings follow.
- 86
- total births
- 1996–2013
- years on record
- 2000s
- peak decade
- 53%
- born in that decade
Mikayela sits outside today's top ranks for girls, with 86 recorded since 1996.
Mikayela has 86 recorded births among girls since 1996, 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 1996 to 2013.
- 86 total births
- 1996–2013 years on record
- 2000s peak decade
- 53% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mikayela's 86 recorded births place it above 60% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mikayela's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Mikayela splits its recorded history at 2003: 53% of all births land in the more recent half, 47% in the earlier half, an evenly balanced pattern over time. The single quietest year was 2006 (5 births) -- compare that against the 2003 peak of 11 for a sense of just how much the name's popularity has swung.
Mikayela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1996–2013
- Peak year (2003)
- 11
- Annual births at peak, across 18 years of records
Mikayela by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
2000s was Mikayela's strongest decade.
46 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Mikayela births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1990s
1990s
28 births
- 2000s
2000s
46 births
- 2010s 12
2010s
12 births
What this shows Peak: 2000s at 46 births (53% of all-time use).
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- Mikayela's decade-level peak was the 2000s (46 total births); usage has since declined to 12 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, 1996–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mikayela: Baby Name Since 1996 - 86 Births, Peak 2003." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mikayela. 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 Mikayela 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.