Micheala
#16,476 in 2025Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Micheala has been given to 1,489 babies in the U.S. since 1957. In 2025 it ranked #16,476 of 17,293 girls’ names in use. Its peak year was 1997, with 115 recorded.
Babies named Micheala, 2025
1 in 663,000
Micheala 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Micheala?
Everything below is computed from the 2025 data — the most recent year available.
- Among all babies, 2025
- 1 in 663,000
- 5 of 3,315,165 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 321,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2025
- #16,476
- of 17,293 girls’ names in use
- Coin-flip room size
- 459,581 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Micheala sits on the popularity scale
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.
Put another way: gather 459,581 children born in 2025 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Micheala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Michealas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Micheala was born before 1997 — so the typical Micheala is around 28 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 49.5% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 27.4%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 1,489
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 49.5% of all recorded uses (737).
Is Micheala 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
- −5,646
- Places dropped
- Rank vs 10 years ago
- −3,848
- Places dropped
- Births vs 10 years ago
- 0.63×
- Fewer babies than then
- Share of its own peak
- 4.3%
- Peak was 1997 (115)
- Years since peak
- 28
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 28.2% average annual change
Spellings of Micheala
Micheala is not the most common spelling — Michelle is, with 71.9% against Micheala's 0.13%.
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 Micheala is used
Across 1910–2025, Micheala was most concentrated in Texas — about 1 in 100,000 girls, against 1 in 454,740 across all states with data. It was least common in Wisconsin (1 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. Micheala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.
Micheala around the world
Where Micheala 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 & Wales1996–2014#4,684in 2014
- Northern Ireland1997–1997#358in 1997
- Ireland1991–2015#896in 2015
- Canada1991–2009#3,263in 2009
- South Australia1986–2003#739in 2003
Popularity data from Office for National Statistics, Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency, Central Statistics Office, Statistics Canada and Consumer and Business Services (South Australia). ONS, NISRA data under Open Government Licence v3.0. CSO, CBS SA data under CC BY 4.0. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.
Micheala by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Micheala
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Micheala
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.