# Mikaela (first name)

Source: https://namelineage.com/first-name/mikaela/  
Publisher: Name Lineage. US counts from the Social Security Administration; England and Wales counts from the Office for National Statistics; meaning and etymology from Wiktionary. Data updated 2026-11-11.

| Field | Value |
|---|---|
| Usually given to | girls |
| Origin | Hebrew |
| Meaning | not recorded |
| Pronunciation | not recorded |
| Nicknames | none recorded |
| Variant spellings | none recorded |
| US babies named this | 20,719 since 1880 |
| Boys / girls in the US | 0 / 20,719 (100% girls) |
| Babies in England and Wales | 565, 1996 to 2025 |

## Popularity

The last 15 years of each series. A year is missing when too few babies were given the name for the agency to publish it: five in the US, three in England and Wales.

### United States, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 673 | 452 |
| 2012 | 497 | 587 |
| 2013 | 453 | 619 |
| 2014 | 531 | 577 |
| 2015 | 486 | 604 |
| 2016 | 486 | 616 |
| 2017 | 401 | 717 |
| 2018 | 432 | 677 |
| 2019 | 394 | 722 |
| 2020 | 360 | 759 |
| 2021 | 363 | 782 |
| 2022 | 425 | 690 |
| 2023 | 339 | 820 |
| 2024 | 268 | 968 |
| 2025 | 241 | 1,037 |

### England and Wales, girls

| Year | Babies | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2011 | 20 | 1,489 |
| 2012 | 17 | 1,720 |
| 2013 | 11 | 2,313 |
| 2014 | 23 | 1,367 |
| 2015 | 14 | 1,961 |
| 2016 | 24 | 1,370 |
| 2017 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2018 | 13 | 2,090 |
| 2019 | 16 | 1,782 |
| 2020 | 20 | 1,507 |
| 2021 | 27 | 1,224 |
| 2022 | 17 | 1,685 |
| 2023 | 14 | 1,959 |
| 2024 | 15 | 1,894 |
| 2025 | 26 | 1,229 |

## People named Mikaela

- Mikaela Shiffrin, American alpine skier (born 1995)
- Mikaela Hoover, American actress
- Mikaela Ingberg, Finnish athletics competitor (born 1974)
- Mikaela Mayer, American boxer
- Mikaela Engell, Danish High Commissioner of Greenland
- Mikaela Wulff, Finnish sailor
- Mikaela Lindh, Finnish equestrian
- Mikey Madison, American actress (born 1999)
- King Princess, American musician
- Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, Filipino equestrianne, local television host and actress

## How to read these numbers

A count is babies registered with that name in that year, not people alive now, so a name common a century ago can have a large total and few recent births.