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Micaella

#8,691 in 2025Girls' name

Who is like God?, through Michaela

Micaella has been given to 365 babies in the U.S. since 1985. In 2025 it ranked #8,691 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 2007, with 24 recorded.

Babies named Micaella, 2025

1 in 276,000

Micaella over time, 1880–2025

Girls
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Based on births in the U.S. Babies given the name each year. Hover the chart — or focus it and use the arrow keys — for any year. Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Micaella: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michaela

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Micaella means

Micaella belongs to the name family reached through Micaella → Michaela → Michael. Its meaning is “who is like God?”.

Origin, language, and formation

Micaella is used in English.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michaela and Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 365 girls were recorded with the name Micaella between 1985 and 2025. Its highest annual count was 24 in 2007; its best national rank was #5,836 in 2007.

Over 5 years its rank rose, from #14,533 in 2020 to #8,691 in 2025. Over 10 years its rank fell, from #7,867 in 2015 to #8,691 in 2025.

Sources & methodologyReferences, data & attribution

Meaning, origin, and language notes draw on the references below.

American popularity figures use published Social Security Administration records for this exact spelling. Counts below five for a name, sex, and year are omitted.

Wiktionary material is available under CC BY-SA 4.0.

How common is Micaella?

Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.

Among all babies, 2025
1 in 276,000
12 of 3,315,165 births
Among girls only
1 in 134,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2025
#8,691
of 17,293 girls’ names in use
Coin-flip room size
191,493 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Micaella sits on the popularity scale

Rarest published (5 a year)#1 — Olivia (13,544)

Chance at least one other child shares the name

If the other children were drawn at random from the 2025 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.

Class of 20Under 1%
Class of 30Under 1%
Grade of 100Under 1%
School of 500Under 1%

Put another way: gather 191,493 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Micaella. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Micaellas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Micaella was born before 2007 — so the typical Micaella is around 18 today.

Median birth year
2007
About 18 years old
Biggest decade
2000s
33.2% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
70.4%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
365
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

2000s — 33.2% of all recorded uses (121).

Is Micaella rising or falling?

Rank movement and count movement can disagree — the number of distinct names in use keeps growing, so a name holding a steady count still slides down the list. Both are shown.

Rank vs 1 year ago
—
Not ranked then
Rank vs 5 years ago
+5,842
Places climbed
Rank vs 10 years ago
−824
Places dropped
Births vs 10 years ago
0.80×
Fewer babies than then
Share of its own peak
50.0%
Peak was 2007 (24)
Years since peak
18
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
30.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#5,836
2007

Spellings of Micaella

Micaella is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 87.6% against Micaella's 0.04%.

Grouped by closeness of spelling (up to two letter changes), same sex, with a floor on all-time use. It catches Sophia/Sofia and Aiden/Ayden, and misses spellings that sound alike but look different, like Sean and Shawn.

Where Micaella is used

Across 1910–2025, Micaella was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 898,231 across all states with data.

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Most concentrated

  1. 1Florida1 in —

Shading is the share of that state's recorded girls given this name, not the raw count — otherwise the map would just show which states are biggest. Unshaded states have no published records for this period. U.S. birth records suppress state-year counts below 5; state counts therefore don't add up to the national total. Every state links to its full rankings. Micaella has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Micaella around the world

Where Micaella ranks in official birth records elsewhere in the world. Rankings only — the number of births isn’t comparable between places, so it isn’t shown.

  • France
    1943–1977
    #2,558
    in 1977
  • Canada
    2017–2017
    #3,407
    in 2017

Popularity data from Institut national de la statistique et des études économiques and Statistics Canada. INSEE data under Licence Ouverte / Etalab 2.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Micaella by the numbers

The raw record for each sex the name is used for.

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
#8,691
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
Up 5,842
Best rank ever
#5,836
2007
Peak year
2007
24 that year
First recorded
1985
Last recorded
2025
All-time count
365
Count in 2025
12

Names similar to Micaella

Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.

MichellaMichallaMichaellaMicheallaKimbellaMichalinaMichaiahMichealaMarkellaEzabellaCarmillaMichalleGiabellaMichailaErabellaSamuellaAdriellaAzriellaMickaelaKarmellaMickaylaIsobellaYzabellaMichiko

Sibling names for Micaella

Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.

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