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Michala

Girls' name

Who is like God?, through Michael

Michala has been given to 1,545 babies in the U.S. since 1970. 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 1994, with 144 recorded.

Babies named Michala, 2015

1 in 617,000

Michala 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Michala: meaning, origin, and history

Who is like God?, through Michael

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Michala means

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

Origin, language, and formation

Michala is used in Danish.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 1,545 girls were recorded with the name Michala between 1970 and 2015. Its highest annual count was 144 in 1994; its best national rank was #1,219 in 1994.

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 Michala?

Michala had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2015, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2015
1 in 617,000
6 of 3,701,574 births
Among girls only
1 in 297,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2015
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
427,624 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Michala 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 2015 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 427,624 children born in 2015 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Michala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Michalas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Michala was born before 1997 — so the typical Michala is around 28 today.

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
56.7% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
85.5%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
1,545
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 56.7% of all recorded uses (876).

Is Michala 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
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1994 (144)
Years since peak
31
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
23.4% average annual change
Best rank ever
#1,219
1994

Spellings of Michala

Michala is not the most common spelling — Michele is, with 62.6% against Michala's 0.43%.

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 Michala is used

Across 1910–2025, Michala was most concentrated in Georgia — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 251,851 across all states with data. It was least common in Washington (1 in —).

01 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Georgia1 in 100,000
  2. 2Missouri1 in 100,000
  3. 3North Carolina1 in 100,000
  4. 4Nebraska1 in 100,000
  5. 5Ohio1 in 100,000
  6. 6Oklahoma1 in 100,000
  7. 7Pennsylvania1 in 100,000
  8. 8Texas1 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. Michala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Michala around the world

Where Michala 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 & Wales
    1996–2013
    #5,742
    in 2013
  • Canada
    1995–1996
    #2,248
    in 1996
  • South Australia
    1980–2011
    #840
    in 2011

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.

Michala by the numbers

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

As a girl's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
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Best rank ever
#1,219
1994
Peak year
1994
144 that year
First recorded
1970
Last recorded
2015
All-time count
1,545
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Michala

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

MichealaMickalaMicalaMicaiahMichelaMichikoMickaylaMichellaMichealMichellMichelMickieMichalMichaMicaylaMichelinaMichaellaMicealaMichaylaMichaeleKamalaMicaellaMickeyMicaela

Sibling names for Michala

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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