first name
MIKAELA
of 53,615 first names recorded in the 2020 Census
Of the 17,596 people named Mikaela, 53.8% reported their origin as White, 24.6% as Hispanic or Latino and 7.6% as Black. Virtually all are female (99.8%). These count how people described themselves on the 2020 Census, not where the name comes from.
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Mikaela peaked in 1997, when 1,071 babies got the name.
At least 20,719 babies have been given the name since 1966. Years SSA withheld, because fewer than 5 were born, are skipped rather than drawn as zero. * 2025 is the newest year published and it undercounts: a card application is filed some time after a birth.
Mikaela by decade
Among all names given to American babies, its best decade was the 1990s, when it ranked #745. The largest share of babies named Mikaela, 50.3%, were born between 1997 and 2012, as Generation Z.
Rank counts both sexes together, among every name SSA recorded that decade; the number under it is births. The 2020s run only to 2025. Generation years follow Pew Research Center, which has not named a generation after 2012.
Where Mikaela is most common
Compared with all babies born in each state since 1910, Mikaela has been most common in Arizona (2.5×), Colorado (2×), and Florida (1.9×), and least common in Mississippi (0.13×).
18,523 births recorded by state, 1910–2025. 2× means twice as common as nationally. States with fewer than 30 such births are left blank, and SSA withholds any year with fewer than 5 in a state, so small states read low.
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8 first names in the 2020 Census spelled within a letter or two of Mikaela, most common first.
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