Mykaela
Mykaela was last recorded in 2024, when 6 babies were given it; 1,116 Americans have been recorded with it between 1990 and 2024 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026).
An estimated 1,100 Americans named Mykaela and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 24 years old and half are between 18 and 28.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykaela by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykaela?
Unranked in 2025
Its last girls’ rank on record is #14,724, in 2024; SSA lists a name only in years with 5 or more births.
92 babies in 1998, the peak
Mykaela peaked in 1998, when 92 girls were given it, #1,728 among girls’ names. It was not recorded in 2025.
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2024 | 6 | #14,724 | 3.7 |
| 2023 | 7 | #13,043 | 4.4 |
| 2022 | 6 | #14,767 | 3.7 |
| 2021 | 10 | #10,085 | 6.1 |
| 2020 | 5 | #16,776 | 3.1 |
| 2019 | 13 | #8,461 | 7.7 |
| 2018 | 7 | #13,392 | 4.1 |
| 2017 | 13 | #8,637 | 7.5 |
| 2016 | 14 | #8,274 | 7.9 |
| 2015 | 16 | #7,499 | 9.0 |
Every recorded year (34)
| Year | Births | Rank | Per million girls |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2014 | 18 | #6,908 | 10.1 |
| 2013 | 23 | #5,779 | 13.1 |
| 2012 | 26 | #5,361 | 14.8 |
| 2011 | 18 | #7,033 | 10.2 |
| 2010 | 35 | #4,274 | 19.7 |
| 2009 | 27 | #5,335 | 14.7 |
| 2008 | 44 | #3,690 | 23.3 |
| 2007 | 44 | #3,705 | 22.9 |
| 2006 | 32 | #4,543 | 16.8 |
| 2005 | 54 | #2,989 | 29.2 |
| 2004 | 51 | #3,053 | 27.8 |
| 2003 | 59 | #2,689 | 32.3 |
| 2002 | 67 | #2,400 | 37.3 |
| 2001 | 56 | #2,682 | 31.1 |
| 2000 | 69 | #2,265 | 38.0 |
| 1999 | 82 | #1,929 | 46.2 |
| 1998 | 92 | #1,728 | 52.1 |
| 1997 | 73 | #1,973 | 41.9 |
| 1996 | 47 | #2,653 | 26.8 |
| 1995 | 38 | #3,058 | 21.6 |
| 1994 | 28 | #3,857 | 15.7 |
| 1993 | 25 | #4,196 | 13.8 |
| 1992 | 5 | #14,759 | 2.7 |
| 1990 | 6 | #12,391 | 3.2 |
Ranks and shares: girls’ names in each year’s SSA file; share of all girls SSA recorded that year.
Is Mykaela a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Mykaela has been recorded only for girls: SSA lists no boys with the name in 34 years of records (it lists a name only in years with 5 or more babies of a sex).
Girls and boys named Mykaela: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykaela, and how old are they?
1,100 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 1,116 Americans ever recorded as Mykaela. The median Mykaela alive today is 24 years old; half are between 18 and 28.
The 2020 Census counted 957 people named Mykaela (954 women and girls, 3 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,073 born in the U.S. The Census count is 11% 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 | 146 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 819 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 137 |
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).
How common is the spelling Mykaela?
Mykaela is a less common spelling of Mikaela: SSA has recorded 1,116 Mykaela and 20,719 Mikaela since 1880.
Of these 8 names spelled alike, given to 103,940 babies since 1880, Mykaela is the eighth most given (1.1% of them). In 2025 none of their 794 babies recorded by SSA was a Mykaela (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 Mykaela
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 Mykaela and names like it
- Compare Mykaela and MikaelaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 1990sMykaela peaked in 1998.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykaela since 1910.
- The top names of 1998The year the most babies were named Mykaela.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykaela alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.