Mikka
Mikka was last recorded in 2024, when 8 babies were given it; 566 Americans have been recorded with it between 1971 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mikka by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mikka?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #11,805, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
23 babies in 1989, the peak
Mikka peaked in 1989, when 23 girls were given it, #4,205 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 8 | #11,805 | 4.9 |
| 2022 | 7 | #13,139 | 4.3 |
| 2020 | 7 | #13,039 | 4.3 |
| 2019 | 5 | #17,219 | 3.0 |
| 2018 | 8 | #12,128 | 4.7 |
| 2017 | 5 | #17,594 | 2.9 |
| 2016 | 6 | #15,608 | 3.4 |
| 2015 | 10 | #10,634 | 5.6 |
| 2014 | 12 | #9,356 | 6.7 |
| 2013 | 10 | #10,765 | 5.7 |
Every recorded year (52)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2012 | 6 | #16,243 | 3.4 |
| 2011 | 11 | #10,182 | 6.3 |
| 2010 | 9 | #11,942 | 5.1 |
| 2009 | 12 | #9,803 | 6.5 |
| 2008 | 7 | #14,886 | 3.7 |
| 2007 | 7 | #14,954 | 3.6 |
| 2006 | 9 | #12,092 | 4.7 |
| 2005 | 11 | #9,908 | 6.0 |
| 2004 | 8 | #12,374 | 4.4 |
| 2003 | 8 | #12,021 | 4.4 |
| 2002 | 5 | #17,238 | 2.8 |
| 2001 | 5 | #17,075 | 2.8 |
| 2000 | 15 | #7,035 | 8.3 |
| 1999 | 9 | #10,048 | 5.1 |
| 1998 | 13 | #7,393 | 7.4 |
| 1997 | 14 | #6,708 | 8.0 |
| 1996 | 16 | #5,971 | 9.1 |
| 1995 | 11 | #7,887 | 6.3 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,541 | 7.8 |
| 1993 | 15 | #6,153 | 8.3 |
| 1992 | 19 | #5,194 | 10.3 |
| 1991 | 22 | #4,593 | 11.7 |
| 1990 | 18 | #5,200 | 9.5 |
| 1989 | 23 | #4,205 | 12.5 |
| 1988 | 13 | #6,141 | 7.3 |
| 1987 | 11 | #6,616 | 6.3 |
| 1986 | 14 | #5,361 | 8.2 |
| 1985 | 13 | #5,564 | 7.6 |
| 1984 | 13 | #5,424 | 7.7 |
| 1983 | 15 | #4,812 | 9.0 |
| 1982 | 15 | #4,860 | 8.9 |
| 1981 | 14 | #5,145 | 8.4 |
| 1980 | 8 | #7,869 | 4.8 |
| 1979 | 17 | #4,356 | 10.6 |
| 1978 | 12 | #5,428 | 7.8 |
| 1977 | 11 | #5,756 | 7.2 |
| 1976 | 10 | #5,876 | 6.8 |
| 1975 | 8 | #6,901 | 5.5 |
| 1974 | 9 | #6,066 | 6.1 |
| 1973 | 7 | #7,149 | 4.8 |
| 1972 | 6 | #7,897 | 3.9 |
| 1971 | 5 | #9,154 | 3.0 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mikka a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mikka has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 52 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mikka: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mikka, and how old are they?
An estimated 552 Americans named Mikka and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (98% of everyone recorded); the median is 33 years old and half are between 21 and 42. An estimate from SSA’s births and life tables, not a count.
The 2020 Census counted 575 people named Mikka (509 women and girls, 66 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 535 born in the U.S. The Census count is 7% above that prediction.
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).
How common is the spelling Mikka?
Mikka is a less common spelling of Mika: SSA has recorded 566 Mikka and 8,114 Mika since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 23,226 babies since 1880, Mikka is the eighth most given (2.4% of them). In 2025 none of their 283 babies recorded by SSA was a Mikka (SSA lists a name only with 5 or more babies of one sex).
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 Mikka
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 Mikka and names like it
- Compare Mikka and MikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1980sMikka peaked in 1989.
- The top names of 1989The year the most babies were named Mikka.
- The names of the MillennialsMost people named Mikka alive today were born 1981-1996.
- Names starting with MMost given first.