Mikka
Girls' nameMeaning not yet documented
Mikka has been given to 566 babies in the U.S. since 1971. 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 1989, with 23 recorded.
Babies named Mikka, 2024
1 in 418,000
Mikka 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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.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 Mikka?
Mikka had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2024, the last year it was published.
- Among all babies, 2024
- 1 in 418,000
- 8 of 3,342,801 births
- Among girls only
- 1 in 203,000
- <0.01% of girls
- Rank, 2024
- Unranked
- Fewer than 5 uses
- Coin-flip room size
- 289,633 kids
- Even odds of a second one
Where Mikka sits on the popularity scale
Chance at least one other child shares the name
If the other children were drawn at random from the 2024 national name distribution. Real classrooms cluster by region and community, so treat these as a floor, not a ceiling.
Put another way: gather 289,633 children born in 2024 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mikka. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.
When Mikkas were born
Half of everyone ever recorded as Mikka was born before 1992 — so the typical Mikka is around 33 today.
- Biggest decade
- 1990s
- 26.7% of all use
- Born in the last 25 years
- 33.7%
- Spread across generations
- Recorded since 1950
- 566
- People you could plausibly meet
1990s — 26.7% of all recorded uses (151).
Is Mikka 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 1989 (23)
- Years since peak
- 36
- Years
- Year-to-year steadiness
- Volatile
- 33.3% average annual change
Spellings of Mikka
Mikka is not the most common spelling — Mia is, with 53.3% against Mikka's 0.10%.
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.
Mikka around the world
Where Mikka 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 & Wales2007–2008#5,545in 2008
- Canada2004–2019#2,941in 2019
- South Australia1988–1994#716in 1994
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.
Mikka by the numbers
The raw record for each sex the name is used for.
Names similar to Mikka
Matched on shared beginnings and endings, similar length, and comparable popularity.
Sibling names for Mikka
Names from the same era and popularity tier — the two things that make a sibling set feel deliberate — skipping lookalike spellings and shared initials.