Miki
Miki was given to 9 girls in 2025, #10,636 among girls’ names; 1,885 Americans have been recorded with it since 1942 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,740 Americans named Miki and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (93% of everyone recorded); the median is 45 years old and half are between 29 and 55.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Miki by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
What does Miki mean?
Wiktionary, English section
Miki is “a diminutive of the female given name Michelle.”
Also “a diminutive of the male given name Michael, variant of Mickey.”
Pet form of name
Meaning: Wiktionary, English section, as of Sep 25, 2026 (CC BY‑SA 4.0).
How popular is Miki?
#10,636 among girls’ names, 2025
Miki fell from #10,633 in 2015 to #10,636 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born held at 5.6 per million.
65 babies in 1974, the peak
Miki peaked in 1974, when 65 babies were given it (59 girls, #1,608 among girls’ names). The 9 births of 2025 are 14% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 9 | #10,636 | 5.6 |
| 2023 | 9 | #10,889 | 5.6 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,137 | 4.3 |
| 2021 | 18 | #6,588 | 11.0 |
| 2020 | 14 | #7,830 | 8.7 |
| 2019 | 15 | #7,591 | 8.9 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,127 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,628 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 10 | #10,605 | 5.6 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,633 | 5.6 |
Every recorded year (82)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 21 | #6,140 | 11.8 |
| 2013 | 12 | #9,427 | 6.8 |
| 2012 | 16 | #7,688 | 9.1 |
| 2011 | 10 | #10,927 | 5.7 |
| 2010 | 12 | #9,616 | 6.8 |
| 2009 | 22 | #6,238 | 12.0 |
| 2008 | 10 | #11,328 | 5.3 |
| 2007 | 19 | #7,004 | 9.9 |
| 2006 | 26 | #5,335 | 13.7 |
| 2005 | 24 | #5,380 | 13.0 |
| 2004 | 11 | #9,689 | 6.0 |
| 2003 | 11 | #9,493 | 6.0 |
| 2002 | 22 | #5,391 | 12.2 |
| 2001 | 23 | #5,118 | 12.8 |
| 2000 | 23 | #5,093 | 12.7 |
| 1999 | 24 | #4,681 | 13.5 |
| 1998 | 24 | #4,582 | 13.6 |
| 1997 | 17 | #5,793 | 9.8 |
| 1996 | 21 | #4,825 | 12.0 |
| 1995 | 21 | #4,788 | 11.9 |
| 1994 | 19 | #5,161 | 10.6 |
| 1993 | 27 | #3,948 | 14.9 |
| 1992 | 22 | #4,627 | 11.9 |
| 1991 | 39 | #2,964 | 20.8 |
| 1990 | 32 | #3,407 | 16.9 |
| 1989 | 31 | #3,364 | 16.8 |
| 1988 | 31 | #3,195 | 17.4 |
| 1987 | 27 | #3,381 | 15.5 |
| 1986 | 26 | #3,422 | 15.2 |
| 1985 | 34 | #2,779 | 19.8 |
| 1984 | 30 | #2,969 | 17.8 |
| 1983 | 28 | #3,039 | 16.8 |
| 1982 | 22 | #3,718 | 13.0 |
| 1981 | 31 | #2,900 | 18.6 |
| 1980 | 29 | #3,046 | 17.5 |
| 1979 | 36 | #2,560 | 22.4 |
| 1978 | 30 | #2,777 | 19.6 |
| 1977 | 35 | #2,498 | 22.8 |
| 1976 | 27 | #2,838 | 18.4 |
| 1975 | 53 | #1,770 | 36.4 |
| 1974 | 59 | #1,608 | 40.2 |
| 1973 | 61 | #1,539 | 41.8 |
| 1972 | 47 | #1,821 | 30.9 |
| 1971 | 48 | #1,843 | 28.8 |
| 1970 | 30 | #2,494 | 17.2 |
| 1969 | 27 | #2,559 | 16.0 |
| 1968 | 27 | #2,405 | 16.5 |
| 1967 | 24 | #2,533 | 14.5 |
| 1966 | 28 | #2,289 | 16.5 |
| 1965 | 24 | #2,514 | 13.6 |
| 1964 | 26 | #2,451 | 13.7 |
| 1963 | 22 | #2,676 | 11.4 |
| 1962 | 30 | #2,198 | 15.3 |
| 1961 | 28 | #2,281 | 13.9 |
| 1960 | 20 | #2,790 | 9.9 |
| 1959 | 25 | #2,322 | 12.4 |
| 1958 | 27 | #2,195 | 13.4 |
| 1957 | 19 | #2,705 | 9.3 |
| 1956 | 14 | #3,276 | 7.0 |
| 1955 | 13 | #3,326 | 6.6 |
| 1954 | 14 | #3,112 | 7.2 |
| 1953 | 20 | #2,410 | 10.6 |
| 1952 | 13 | #3,141 | 7.0 |
| 1951 | 9 | #3,905 | 5.0 |
| 1950 | 12 | #3,170 | 7.0 |
| 1949 | 14 | #2,809 | 8.2 |
| 1947 | 9 | #3,926 | 5.1 |
| 1946 | 6 | #4,802 | 3.8 |
| 1945 | 6 | #4,382 | 4.6 |
| 1944 | 5 | #5,050 | 3.8 |
| 1943 | 5 | #5,146 | 3.6 |
| 1942 | 9 | #3,356 | 6.7 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Miki a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 1,885 Americans recorded as Miki, 96% are girls and 4% boys. In 2025 it went to 9 girls; SSA lists no boys with it that year (fewer than 5, or none).
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Miki: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Miki, and how old are they?
1,740 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 93% of the 1,885 Americans ever recorded as Miki. The median Miki alive today is 45 years old; half are between 29 and 55.
The 2020 Census counted 3,277 people named Miki (2,969 women and girls, 308 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,731 born in the U.S. The Census count is 1.9 times that prediction. Possible reasons: the Census counts people born abroad, whom SSA’s files leave out, and it records the name people give, which SSA may have recorded under another spelling or as part of a compound name.
Alive today, by age
Alive today, by generation
| Generation | Born | Alive |
|---|---|---|
| Silent Generation | 1928-1945 | 13 |
| Baby Boomers | 1946-1964 | 274 |
| Generation X | 1965-1980 | 571 |
| Millennials | 1981-1996 | 445 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 296 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 145 |
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 Miki born?
The states with the most babies named Miki are California, New York and Hawaii, with 95% of its births recorded by state since 1910; Hawaii is not among the ten states with the most births.
| State | Since 1910 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| California | 234 | not ranked | 1.1× |
| New York | 56 | not ranked | 0.4× |
| Hawaii | 28 | not ranked | 3.6× |
| Texas | 11 | not ranked | 0.1× |
| Ohio | 5 | not ranked | 0.1× |
Where Miki is more common than its national share predicts
Relative to its national share, Miki is most over-represented in California: since 1942 it was given 1.1 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 Miki 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 26,845 babies since 1880, Miki is the seventh most given (7.0% of them). In 2025 it was given to 9 of their 290 babies (3.1%), the fourth 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 Miki
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 Miki and names like it
- Compare Miki and MikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1970sMiki peaked in 1974.
- California’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Miki since 1910.
- The top names of 1974The year the most babies were named Miki.
- The names of Generation XMost people named Miki alive today were born 1965-1980.
- Names starting with MMost given first.