Girls' name · since 1985
Mikeala
347 babies named Mikeala in U.S. Social Security records since 1985, with the highest year being 1996. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
- 347
- total births
- 1985–2016
- years on record
- 1990s
- peak decade
- 53%
- born in that decade
347 girls have been named Mikeala since 1985, though it isn't currently a top-ranked name.
Mikeala has 347 recorded births among girls since 1985, per the U.S. Social Security Administration, though it falls outside today's most-used girls names, busiest in the 1990s -- see the year-by-year trends, decade totals, and state-level distribution below, all drawn directly from SSA birth-registration files spanning 1985 to 2016.
- 347 total births
- 1985–2016 years on record
- 1990s peak decade
- 53% born in that decade
Data updated Jul 2026
Mikeala's 347 recorded births place it above 80% of the 72,339 girls names in the full SSA archive.
No state rows cleared SSA’s public reporting threshold for this name.
Mikeala's usage pattern, beyond the headline number
Splitting Mikeala's full recorded timeline at 2001, 37% of its total births fall in the more recent half of the record versus 63% in the earlier half -- the name was more prevalent in its earlier era than it is today. Its quietest year on record was 1985, with just 5 recorded births -- worth weighing against the 1996 peak of 30 to see the full range of the name's swing in popularity.
Mikeala popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 1985–2016
- Peak year (1996)
- 30
- Annual births at peak, across 32 years of records
Mikeala by decade
Total births in each ten-year window, peak vs trough at a glance
1990s was Mikeala's strongest decade.
183 babies received the name during that ten-year window, about 53% of all-time use.
Mikeala births by decade
Total births in each ten-year window
- 1980s 18
1980s
18 births
- 1990s
1990s
183 births
- 2000s
2000s
109 births
- 2010s 37
2010s
37 births
What this shows Peak: 1990s at 183 births (53% of all-time use).
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- Mikeala's decade-level peak was the 1990s (183 total births); usage has since declined to 37 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, 1985–2016 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames).
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names, State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip).
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NameAlmanac. "Mikeala: Baby Name Since 1985 - 347 Births, Peak 1996." NameAlmanac. Accessed via https://namealmanac.com/name/mikeala. 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 Mikeala 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.