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Mikala

Girls' name

Form of Michael

Mikala has been given to 4,018 babies in the U.S. since 1967. 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 1995, with 324 recorded.

Babies named Mikala, 2023

1 in 663,000

Mikala over time, 1880–2025

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mikala: meaning, origin, and history

Form of Michael

English and the Bible

What Mikala means

Mikala is a form of Michael.

Documented naming usage and pronunciation

Mikala is used in Hawaiian.

Meaning behind the documented name family

Mikala is a form of Michael. Michael has more than one origin or interpretation.

Origin, language, and formation

Mikala is used in Faroese and Hawaiian. Its origins include English and the Bible.

Related names and everyday forms

Related names include Michael and Michelle.

Pronunciation and spelling

In Hawaiian, Mikala is pronounced /miˈka.la/.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 4,008 girls were recorded with the name Mikala between 1967 and 2023. Its highest annual count was 324 in 1995; its best national rank was #661 in 1995.

In the United States, 10 boys were recorded with the name Mikala between 1995 and 1997. Its highest annual count was 5 in 1995; its best national rank was #9,812 in 1995.

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 Mikala?

Mikala 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 663,000
5 of 3,314,783 births
Among girls only
1 in 321,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2023
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
459,528 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mikala 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 2023 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 459,528 children born in 2023 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikala. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mikalas were born

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

Median birth year
1997
About 28 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
52.5% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
41.2%
Spread across generations
Recorded since 1950
4,008
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 52.5% of all recorded uses (2,103).

Is Mikala 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
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Not ranked then
Births vs 10 years ago
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Not published both years
Share of its own peak
0%
Peak was 1995 (324)
Years since peak
30
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Shifting
22.9% average annual change
Best rank ever
#661
1995

Spellings of Mikala

Mikala is not the most common spelling — Makayla is, with 28.8% against Mikala's 1.1%.

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 Mikala is used

Across 1910–2025, Mikala was most concentrated in Nebraska — about 1 in 25,000 girls, against 1 in 62,638 across all states with data. It was least common in Mississippi (1 in —).

04 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1Nebraska1 in 25,000
  2. 2Arizona1 in 33,333
  3. 3Missouri1 in 33,333
  4. 4Oklahoma1 in 33,333
  5. 5California1 in 50,000
  6. 6Colorado1 in 50,000
  7. 7Florida1 in 50,000
  8. 8Indiana1 in 50,000

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. Mikala has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mikala around the world

Where Mikala 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
    1996–2012
    #4,171
    in 2012
  • Canada
    1994–2009
    #3,263
    in 2009
  • South Australia
    1978–2013
    #818
    in 2013

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.

Mikala in other languages

Cross-language forms and variants of Mikala. Linked forms have their own page here.

MikaelaNickala

Variant forms from Wikidata (CC0). Most are used mainly outside the United States; U.S. birth records statistics cover US usage only.

Mikala 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
—
Best rank ever
#661
1995
Peak year
1995
324 that year
First recorded
1967
Last recorded
2023
All-time count
4,008
Count in 2025
Under 5

As a boy's name

Rank in 2025
Unranked
Trend vs 5 yrs ago
—
Best rank ever
#9,812
1995
Peak year
1995
5 that year
First recorded
1995
Last recorded
1997
All-time count
10
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mikala

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

MikealaMikailaMahalaMikahMikhalaMikaMikennaMikiahMikelleMikiKamalaMikaelaMikiyaMikaylahMikylaMikkiMikialaMakalaTamalaMikelaTalaMikeylaPamalaNala

Names with a curve like Mikala

Not spelling — timing. These names rose, peaked and faded in the same years as Mikala, so they read as being from the same moment even when they look nothing alike.

KatlynnDaishaShianneDestinieKeanaMyrandaKeannaElexisCiarraCherokeeDestanyKaytlin

Sibling names for Mikala

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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