Mikayla
Mikayla is ranked 777th among girls in 2024 (362 births). Its best rank was 82nd, in 1998.
- Rank in 2024
- #777down 163 from 2023
- Births in 2024
- 3620.02% of girls
- Peak year
- 19983,858 births
- Best rank
- #82in 1998
- Since 1970
- 56,339people given the name
The story in the numbers
56,339 girls have been named Mikayla in the United States since 1970, according to Social Security records. The busiest single year was 1998, with 3,858 births — 0.22% of all girls recorded that year.
It is falling: its share of births is 60% or less of what it was ten years ago (rank 320 → 777).
Half of everyone given the name was born by 2002, and the 2000s alone account for 42%. It has spent 36 of 145 years in the top 1,000, 2 of them in the top 100.
Rank among girls, year by year
By decade
In 1998, its biggest year
Mikayla was the 82nd most given girl’s name that year. The top five girls’ names of 1998 were Emily, Hannah, Samantha, Sarah and Ashley. See all of 1998.
Names that rose and fell with Mikayla
Same sex, most similar popularity curve over 145 years, in five-year steps — the shape of the line, not the size.
- Dasiapeak 1997
- Mykaelapeak 1998
- Mckaylapeak 1998
- Shyannepeak 1999
- Reillypeak 1998
- Mykaylapeak 1999
- Sydneypeak 2000
- Macaylapeak 2000
Other spellings in the data
- Mykayla2,689 ever
- Micayla2,597 ever
- Mikaila2,384 ever
- Mickayla1,864 ever
- Mikaylah1,515 ever
- Michayla1,399 ever
What this page does not tell you. The Social Security data records how many babies were given a name, not what the name means or where it comes from — so neither do we. Counts cover people with a Social Security number; names given to fewer than five babies in a year are withheld. More on the data.