Mikaela
About 20,719 American babies have been named Mikaela since 1966, most of them around 1997. In 2025 it ranked 1,034th. About 20,000 Mikaelas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 22.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mikaela
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 20,719
- Estimated living today
- 20,000
- Median age today
- 22
- Peak year
- 1997
- Best rank
- 273rd
- Rank in 2025
- 1,034th
- First recorded
- 1966
How old the living Mikaelas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 20,719 babies given the name since 1966, about 20,000 are alive — 99 in every hundred. Roughly 8,200 of them are children and 0 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2003 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Origin Hebrew
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mikaelas
- Mikaela Shiffrin (born 1995)American alpine skier
- Mikaela Hoover (born 1984)American actress
- Mikaela Ingberg (born 1974)athletics competitor
- Mikaela Mayer (born 1990)American boxer
People named Mikaela with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mikaela is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mikaela is most concentrated in Arizona (2.5×), Colorado (2.0×), Florida (1.9×), Washington (1.9×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 1997
The most popular girls’ names the year Mikaela peaked:
Mikaela elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Sweden girls | Mikaela | 1,490 | 35th |
| England and Wales girls | Mikaela | 565 | 643rd |
| France girls | Mikaela +1 spelling | 450 | 2,238th |
| Italy girls | Mikaela | 391 | — |
| Ireland girls | Mikaela | 155 | 279th |
| Scotland girls | Mikaela | 65 | 362nd |
| New Zealand girls | Mikaela | 48 | 99th |
| Poland girls | Mikaela | 37 birth registrations | 422nd |
| Belgium girls | Mikaela | 19 | 1,013th |
| Norway girls | Mikaela | 12 | 400th |
| Northern Ireland girls | Mikaela | 3 | 351st |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mikaela: rank by region
In 2017, Mikaela was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mikaela | 845 | 5 |
In 2023, Mikaela was given 2 times or more in 2 regions of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Podlaskie | Mikaela | 122 | 2 |
| Śląskie | Mikaela | 250 | 2 |
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mikaela among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland girls | Mikaela +1 spelling | 1,347 | 6,689 |
| Finland boys | Mikaela | — | 5 |
Among girls in Finland this is mostly a middle name: of the 6,689 who carry it, 1,347 go by it.
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Where Mikaela lives in Spain
Not a count of births but of people: 501 women called Mikaela were living in Spain on 1 January 2025, of every age, born in any year. Where they live is not spread evenly.
Women: the provinces where it is densest
| Province | Spelling | People | Per thousand | Place there |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Navarra | Mikaela | 35 | 0.101 | 808 |
| Gipuzkoa | Mikaela | 25 | 0.067 | 1,016 |
| Bizkaia | Mikaela | 24 | 0.040 | 1,425 |
| Cantabria | Mikaela | 11 | 0.036 | 1,287 |
| Pontevedra | Mikaela | 16 | 0.033 | 1,320 |
| León | Mikaela | 7 | 0.030 | 1,514 |
Listed in 25 of Spain's 52 provinces. In the other 27 it is either held by fewer than 5 people – the point below which the source withholds a name – or it fell past the 5,000 names the source will print for one province. Neither means nobody there is called it. The rate is the source's own, not a share worked out here.
Related names
Mikaela against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.