Micayla
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Micayla has been given to 2,597 babies in the U.S. since 1980. It was used fewer than 5 times in 2025, so it doesn't appear in the latest year's list — today it's a genuinely uncommon pick. Its peak year was 1997, with 208 recorded.
Babies named Micayla, 2023
1 in 301,000
Micayla over time, 1880–2025
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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.
How common is Micayla?
Micayla had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2023, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2023
- 1 in 301,000
- 11 of 3,314,783 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 146,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2023
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 208,877 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Micayla sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2023 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 208,877 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Micayla. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Micaylas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Micayla was born before 2000 — so the typical Micayla is around 25 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 44.1% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 60.4%
- A modern name
- Recorded since 1950
- 2,597
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 44.1% of all recorded uses (1,145).
Is Micayla 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
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- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 5 years ago
- New entry
- Not ranked then
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not ranked then
- Births vs 10 years ago
- —
- Not published both years
- Share of its own peak
- 0%
- Peak was 1997 (208)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Shifting
- 21.7% average annual change
Spellings of Micayla
Micayla is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 34.9% against Micayla's 0.84%.
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 Micayla is used
Across 1910–2025, Micayla was most concentrated in Florida — about 1 in 33,333 girls, against 1 in 112,199 across all states with data. It was least common in West Virginia (1 in —).
Most concentrated
- 1Florida1 in 33,333
- 2Texas1 in 50,000
- 3Arizona1 in 100,000
- 4California1 in 100,000
- 5Colorado1 in 100,000
- 6Georgia1 in 100,000
- 7Massachusetts1 in 100,000
- 8Michigan1 in 100,000
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. Micayla has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Micayla around the world
Where Micayla 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.
- England & Wales2004–2015#5,730in 2015
- Canada1993–2015#3,185in 2015
- South Australia1993–2004#700in 2004
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS data under Open Government Licence v3.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence. CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0.
Micayla by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Micayla
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Names with a curve like Micayla
Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Micayla, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.
Sibling names for Micayla
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.