Mikayla
Mikayla was given to 364 girls in 2025, #748 among girls’ names; 56,724 Americans have been recorded with it since 1970 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 56,000 Americans named Mikayla and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 23 years old and half are between 17 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikayla by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Mikayla mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Mikayla is “a female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.”
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Mikayla?
#748 among girls’ names, 2025
Mikayla fell from #351 in 2015 to #748 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 0.53 to 0.23 per 1,000.
3,858 babies in 1998, the peak
Mikayla peaked in 1998, when 3,858 girls were given it, #82 among girls’ names. The 364 births of 2025 are 9% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 364 | #748 | 0.23 |
| 2024 | 363 | #778 | 0.22 |
| 2023 | 488 | #613 | 0.30 |
| 2022 | 483 | #616 | 0.29 |
| 2021 | 439 | #673 | 0.27 |
| 2020 | 552 | #544 | 0.34 |
| 2019 | 627 | #502 | 0.37 |
| 2018 | 737 | #426 | 0.43 |
| 2017 | 796 | #394 | 0.46 |
| 2016 | 826 | #403 | 0.47 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per 1,000 girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 946 | #351 | 0.53 |
| 2014 | 1,041 | #320 | 0.58 |
| 2013 | 1,200 | #268 | 0.68 |
| 2012 | 1,339 | #241 | 0.76 |
| 2011 | 1,524 | #206 | 0.87 |
| 2010 | 1,722 | #181 | 1.0 |
| 2009 | 1,828 | #179 | 1.0 |
| 2008 | 1,940 | #171 | 1.0 |
| 2007 | 1,852 | #182 | 1.0 |
| 2006 | 2,253 | #154 | 1.2 |
| 2005 | 2,395 | #142 | 1.3 |
| 2004 | 2,159 | #156 | 1.2 |
| 2003 | 2,393 | #138 | 1.3 |
| 2002 | 2,738 | #124 | 1.5 |
| 2001 | 3,014 | #109 | 1.7 |
| 2000 | 3,160 | #108 | 1.7 |
| 1999 | 3,735 | #85 | 2.1 |
| 1998 | 3,858 | #82 | 2.2 |
| 1997 | 2,873 | #112 | 1.7 |
| 1996 | 2,284 | #143 | 1.3 |
| 1995 | 2,223 | #146 | 1.3 |
| 1994 | 1,793 | #168 | 1.0 |
| 1993 | 928 | #296 | 0.51 |
| 1992 | 413 | #566 | 0.22 |
| 1991 | 344 | #645 | 0.18 |
| 1990 | 295 | #710 | 0.16 |
| 1989 | 261 | #753 | 0.14 |
| 1988 | 143 | #1,097 | 0.08 |
| 1987 | 94 | #1,414 | 0.05 |
| 1986 | 62 | #1,830 | 0.04 |
| 1985 | 56 | #1,964 | 0.03 |
| 1984 | 44 | #2,253 | 0.03 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,038 | 0.02 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,859 | 0.01 |
| 1981 | 17 | #4,463 | 0.01 |
| 1980 | 16 | #4,663 | 0.01 |
| 1979 | 14 | #5,002 | 0.01 |
| 1978 | 10 | #6,233 | 0.01 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,755 | 0.01 |
| 1976 | 6 | #8,841 | under 0.01 |
| 1975 | 6 | #8,660 | under 0.01 |
| 1970 | 5 | #8,852 | under 0.01 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikayla a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikayla has been given almost only to girls: 11 boys in 52 years of records.
Girls and boys named Mikayla: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikayla, and how old are they?
56,000 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 56,724 Americans ever recorded as Mikayla. The median Mikayla alive today is 23 years old; half are between 17 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 48,659 people named Mikayla (48,569 women and girls, 90 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 53,651 born in the U.S. The Census count is 9% below that prediction.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 65 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 8,820 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 38,300 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 8,810 |
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 Mikayla born?
The states with the most babies named Mikayla are California, Florida and New York, with 42% of its births recorded by state in 2025.
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 59 | #553 | 0.8× |
| Florida | 40 | #468 | 1.0× |
| New York | 32 | #529 | 0.9× |
| Texas | 31 | #939 | 0.8× |
| New Jersey | 15 | #524 | 1.0× |
| Virginia | 15 | #535 | 0.9× |
| North Carolina | 14 | #720 | 0.9× |
| Pennsylvania | 13 | #749 | 1.0× |
| Illinois | 13 | #734 | 0.9× |
| Maryland | 10 | #538 | 1.0× |
Where Mikayla is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Mikayla is most over-represented in Hawaii: since 1970 it was given 1.5 times as often there as its national share each year would predict.
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 Mikayla 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, Mikayla is the most given (54% of them). In 2025 it was given to 364 of their 802 babies (45%), again the most given.
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 Mikayla
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 Mikayla and names like it
- Compare Mikayla and MikaelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMikayla peaked in 1998.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikayla since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Mikayla.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikayla alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.