Mykah
Mykah is given to both girls and boys: 35 girls and 36 boys were given it in 2025 (#4,141 among girls’ names and #3,287 among boys’, #4,454 among all names counting both); 2,491 Americans have been recorded with it since 1985 (Social Security Administration, published May 2026). Boys have outnumbered girls among babies named Mykah every year since 2015.
An estimated 2,470 Americans named Mykah and born in the U.S. are alive in 2026 (99% of everyone recorded); the median is 14 years old and half are between 8 and 20.
Girls and boys together; gaps are years SSA did not record (fewer than 5 births).
Births of Mykah by year: SSA national baby-name file, 1880-2025, published May 8, 2026. SSA’s notes on the data.
How popular is Mykah?
#4,141 among girls’ names, 2025
Mykah fell from #3,117 in 2015 to #4,141 in 2025 among girls’ names; its share of girls born fell from 30.3 to 21.8 per million.
133 babies in 2011, the peak
Mykah peaked in 2011, when 133 babies were given it (78 girls, #2,388 among girls’ names). The 71 births of 2025 (girls and boys) are 53% of that peak.
Births by sex.
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 35 | #4,141 | 36 | #3,287 |
| 2024 | 44 | #3,559 | 46 | #2,820 |
| 2023 | 32 | #4,423 | 48 | #2,720 |
| 2022 | 47 | #3,396 | 50 | #2,664 |
| 2021 | 42 | #3,653 | 48 | #2,684 |
| 2020 | 40 | #3,722 | 54 | #2,430 |
| 2019 | 40 | #3,767 | 40 | #3,036 |
| 2018 | 38 | #3,902 | 55 | #2,404 |
| 2017 | 47 | #3,374 | 44 | #2,783 |
| 2016 | 44 | #3,566 | 50 | #2,540 |
Every recorded year (37)
| Year | Girls | Girls’ rank | Boys | Boys’ rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2015 | 54 | #3,117 | 55 | #2,378 |
| 2014 | 56 | #3,036 | 49 | #2,531 |
| 2013 | 59 | #2,893 | 47 | #2,583 |
| 2012 | 63 | #2,794 | 42 | #2,853 |
| 2011 | 78 | #2,388 | 55 | #2,332 |
| 2010 | 64 | #2,776 | 49 | #2,538 |
| 2009 | 50 | #3,339 | 48 | #2,613 |
| 2008 | 49 | #3,407 | 46 | #2,705 |
| 2007 | 52 | #3,278 | 48 | #2,590 |
| 2006 | 51 | #3,251 | 27 | #3,745 |
| 2005 | 47 | #3,302 | 23 | #4,015 |
| 2004 | 44 | #3,423 | 29 | #3,336 |
| 2003 | 34 | #4,003 | 17 | #4,739 |
| 2002 | 33 | #3,946 | 26 | #3,418 |
| 2001 | 50 | #2,905 | 17 | #4,617 |
| 2000 | 34 | #3,781 | 25 | #3,382 |
| 1999 | 32 | #3,767 | 10 | #6,354 |
| 1998 | 28 | #4,103 | 11 | #5,712 |
| 1997 | 24 | #4,469 | 7 | #7,850 |
| 1996 | 12 | #7,435 | 8 | #6,915 |
| 1995 | 14 | #6,501 | under 5 | |
| 1994 | 7 | #11,360 | under 5 | |
| 1993 | 7 | #11,369 | under 5 | |
| 1992 | 9 | #9,249 | under 5 | |
| 1990 | 9 | #8,984 | under 5 | |
| 1989 | 7 | #10,467 | under 5 | |
| 1985 | 5 | #11,844 | under 5 |
Ranks: girls’ names and boys’ names ranked separately in each year’s SSA file; “under 5” is a year SSA did not list the name for that sex.
Is Mykah a boy’s or a girl’s name?
Of the 2,491 Americans recorded as Mykah, 55% are girls and 45% boys.
Years with fewer than 20 babies given the name are left blank.
Girls and boys named Mykah: the SSA national file counts each sex separately.
How many people are named Mykah, and how old are they?
2,470 alive in 2026, estimated
That is 99% of the 2,491 Americans ever recorded as Mykah. The median Mykah alive today is 14 years old; half are between 8 and 20.
The 2020 Census counted 1,715 people named Mykah (1,021 women and girls, 694 men and boys). SSA’s births carried forward to Census day, April 1, 2020, predict 1,976 born in the U.S. The Census count is 13% 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 | 76 |
| Generation Z | 1997-2012 | 1,200 |
| Generation Alpha | 2013-2025 | 1,190 |
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 Mykah born?
| State | Births 2025 | Rank, girls | vs. national |
|---|---|---|---|
| Texas | 9 | not ranked | 0.9× |
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 Mykah 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 16,229 babies since 1880, Mykah is the third most given (15% of them). In 2025 it was given to 71 of their 307 babies (23%), the second 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 Mykah
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 Mykah and names like it
- Compare Mykah and MikaBirths, ranks, peak and the living estimate side by side.
- The most given names of the 2010sMykah peaked in 2011.
- Texas’s most given namesThe state where SSA recorded the most babies named Mykah since 1910.
- The top names of 2011The year the most babies were named Mykah.
- The names of Generation ZMost people named Mykah alive today were born 1997-2012.
- Names starting with MMost given first.