Mychaela — girls' name
362 babies named Mychaela in U.S. Social Security records since 1991, with the highest year being 1997. Year-by-year trend, decade aggregates, and state-level rankings drawn from federal birth data.
49% of everyone ever named Mychaela was born in this single decade.
33 babies were named Mychaela in 1997 — its busiest year on record.
What the Data Says About Mychaela
The Social Security Administration has registered 362 babies named Mychaela between 1991 and 2013, spanning 23 consecutive years of U.S. birth records. As a girl's name, Mychaela currently falls outside the top 1,000 girls' names for 2013. The name reached its historical peak in 1997, when 33 babies received it in a single year.
Decade-level aggregation shows that Mychaela performed strongest in the 1990s, accumulating 177 births during that ten-year window. Across the 3 decades of recorded activity, Mychaela shows a clear decline from its mid-century high. Geographically, the name is most concentrated in California, which accounts for 7 births — the largest state-level total in the dataset — followed by Georgia and Texas. In total, SSA state-level files list Mychaela in 3 of the 51 U.S. reporting jurisdictions.
No etymological entry is currently available for Mychaela in our reference dataset. These figures derive from SSA's annual national and state-level name files, which include any name appearing at least five times in a given year or state-year; names below that threshold are suppressed for privacy and therefore excluded from the totals shown here. The 362 total represents a lower bound — actual usage may be higher in years or states where the count fell below the disclosure floor. This page is provided for informational and research purposes only and does not constitute personal, legal, or naming advice.
Mychaela at a glance
Last recorded 2013Peak year
Current rank
Active since
Mychaela popularity over time
Annual U.S. births registered with the Social Security Administration · 2013–1991
- Peak year (1997)
- 33
- Annual births at peak — across 23 years of records
No longer in the modern top-1000 — last recorded 2013.
362 total births across 23 years of SSA records. Peaked in 1997 with 33 births in a single year.
Mychaela by decade
Total births in each ten-year window — peak vs trough at a glance
- Peak decade
- 1990s
- 177 births that decade — 49% of Mychaela's all-time total
Mychaela decade highlights
- Peak decade 177 births
- Runner-up 151 births
- Modern era share 2010s + 2020s
- Decades tracked with recorded births
1990s was Mychaela's strongest decade
177 babies received the name during that ten-year window — about 49% of all-time use.
Mychaela by state
Where Mychaela concentrates geographically — total births since 1991
| Rank | State | Visual share | Births | Share of total |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| #1 | California | | 7 | 1.9% |
| #2 | Georgia | | 5 | 1.4% |
| #3 | Texas | | 5 | 1.4% |
7 of 362 births nationwide. Compared to a flat distribution across 3 reporting states.
Top 5 states
- California 1.9% of nationwide
- Georgia 1.4% of nationwide
- Texas 1.4% of nationwide
Recorded in 3 of 51 SSA jurisdictions
California accounts for 1.9% of all recorded births nationwide — a relatively diffuse profile for this name.
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Data Sources
Data as of 2024. Source: U.S. Social Security Administration (SSA).
Primary: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names from Social Security Card Applications — National Data, 1991–2013 (ssa.gov/oact/babynames). National-level data includes all names with 5 or more occurrences in a given year.
State-level: Source: U.S. Social Security Administration, Baby Names — State-Level Files (namesbystate.zip). Includes all names with 5 or more occurrences per state per year; rarer names are excluded for privacy.