Mikaylah
Mikaylah was given to 8 girls in 2025, #11,588 among girls’ names; 1,523 Americans have been recorded with it since 1993 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,510 Americans named Mikaylah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 20 years old and half are between 15 and 24.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikaylah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikaylah?
#11,588 among girls’ names, 2025
Mikaylah fell from #4,467 in 2015 to #11,588 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 17.9 to 5.0 per million.
156 babies in 2005, the peak
Mikaylah peaked in 2005, when 156 girls were given it, #1,386 among girls’ names. The 8 births of 2025 are 5% of that peak.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #11,588 | 5.0 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,476 | 9.3 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,344 | 8.1 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,911 | 8.5 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,325 | 11.6 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,965 | 16.1 |
| 2019 | 10 | #10,240 | 6.0 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,935 | 12.3 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,761 | 12.7 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,409 | 14.1 |
Every recorded year (33)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 32 | #4,467 | 17.9 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,077 | 20.7 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,553 | 25.1 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,825 | 35.2 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,827 | 35.2 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,377 | 45.0 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,352 | 45.2 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,572 | 38.6 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,998 | 53.6 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,929 | 55.2 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,386 | 84.4 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,829 | 31.0 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,325 | 24.1 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,626 | 32.8 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,121 | 25.0 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,581 | 31.9 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,273 | 37.2 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,271 | 35.7 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,277 | 20.7 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,599 | 17.7 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,837 | 15.9 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,539 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,330 | 6.6 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikaylah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikaylah has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 33 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mikaylah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikaylah, and how old are they?
1,510 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,523 Americans ever recorded as Mikaylah. The median Mikaylah alive today is 20 years old; half are between 15 and 24.
The 2020 Census counted 1,219 people named Mikaylah (1,215 women and girls, 4 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,422 born in the U.S. The Census count is 14% below that prediction. Possible reasons: people who give a short form or another name to the Census, and a survival estimate that can run high.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 83 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,140 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 284 |
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 Mikaylah born?
The states with the most babies named Mikaylah are California, Texas and New York, with 59% of its births recorded by state since 1910.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 170 | not ranked | 0.8× |
| Texas | 86 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New York | 48 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Florida | 46 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| Ohio | 34 | not ranked | 0.6× |
| New Jersey | 30 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Pennsylvania | 27 | not ranked | 0.5× |
| Virginia | 27 | not ranked | 0.7× |
| Michigan | 21 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Illinois | 16 | not ranked | 0.2× |
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 Mikaylah with the births its national share predicts year by year, for states with at least 100 births of the name.
How common is the spelling Mikaylah?
Mikaylah is a less common spelling of Mikayla: SSA has recorded 1,523 Mikaylah and 56,724 Mikayla since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 92,542 babies since 1880, Mikaylah is the eighth most given (1.6% of them). In 2025 it was given to 8 of their 636 babies (1.3%), the fifth most given that year.
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 Mikaylah
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 Mikaylah and names like it
- Compare Mikaylah and MikaylaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2000sMikaylah peaked in 2005.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mikaylah since 1910.
- The top names of 2005The year the most babies were named Mikaylah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mikaylah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.