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Mychaela

Girls' name

Literal meaning not recorded

Mychaela has been given to 362 babies in the U.S. since 1991. 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 33 recorded.

Babies named Mychaela, 2013

1 in 608,000

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 Gaps mean the name was given fewer than 5 times that year; these counts are unpublished.

Mychaela: meaning, origin, and history

Literal meaning not recorded

Deeper origin not confirmed in the cited records

What Mychaela means

Mychaela is a given name.

Origin, language, and formation

Mychaela is used in English.

American usage and historical context

In the United States, 362 girls were recorded with the name Mychaela between 1991 and 2013. Its highest annual count was 33 in 1997; its best national rank was #3,509 in 1997.

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 Mychaela?

Mychaela had fewer than 5 recorded uses in 2025, so these figures use 2013, the last year it was published.

Among all babies, 2013
1 in 608,000
6 of 3,645,938 births
Among girls only
1 in 292,000
<0.01% of girls
Rank, 2013
Unranked
Fewer than 5 uses
Coin-flip room size
421,196 kids
Even odds of a second one

Where Mychaela 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 2013 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 421,196 children born in 2013 and it's an even bet that one of them is another Mychaela. In a class of 30 the chance is Under 1%.

When Mychaelas were born

Half of everyone ever recorded as Mychaela was born before 2000 — so the typical Mychaela is around 25 today.

Median birth year
2000
About 25 years old
Biggest decade
1990s
48.9% of all use
Born in the last 25 years
100.0%
A modern name
Recorded since 1950
362
People you could plausibly meet
Choose a decade

1990s — 48.9% of all recorded uses (177).

Is Mychaela 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 1997 (33)
Years since peak
28
Years
Year-to-year steadiness
Volatile
42.6% average annual change
Best rank ever
#3,509
1997

Spellings of Mychaela

Mychaela is not the most common spelling — Michaela is, with 52.7% against Mychaela's 0.36%.

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 Mychaela is used

Across 1910–2025, Mychaela was most concentrated in California — about 1 in — girls, against 1 in 1,930,529 across all states with data. It was least common in Texas (1 in —).

00 per 100,000

Most concentrated

  1. 1California1 in —
  2. 2Georgia1 in —
  3. 3Texas1 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. Mychaela has too little recent state data to map, so this covers all years from 1910.

Mychaela around the world

Where Mychaela 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.

  • Canada
    1995–1999
    #2,493
    in 1999

Popularity data from Statistics Canada. StatCan data under Statistics Canada Open Licence.

Mychaela 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
#3,509
1997
Peak year
1997
33 that year
First recorded
1991
Last recorded
2013
All-time count
362
Count in 2025
Under 5

Names similar to Mychaela

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

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Sibling names for Mychaela

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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