Mica
#5,917 for girls in 2025, 20 births · #4,396 for boys in 2025, 23 births
Given to girls 73.4% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1970 · 78 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 2,713since 1952
Mica over time
Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.
Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.
Show data table
| Year | girls | boys | ||
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| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #5,917 | 20 | #4,396 | 23 |
| 2024 | #6,394 | 18 | #3,896 | 28 |
| 2023 | #6,409 | 18 | #4,456 | 23 |
| 2022 | #6,984 | 16 | #4,303 | 24 |
| 2021 | #6,174 | 19 | #6,032 | 14 |
| 2020 | #6,325 | 18 | #4,141 | 24 |
| 2019 | #5,306 | 24 | #3,794 | 28 |
| 2018 | #6,248 | 19 | #4,918 | 19 |
| 2017 | #8,299 | 13 | #4,331 | 23 |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | #6,726 | 12 |
| 2015 | #4,403 | 32 | #4,545 | 21 |
| 2014 | #4,892 | 28 | #4,538 | 21 |
| 2013 | #6,255 | 20 | #4,804 | 19 |
| 2012 | #5,398 | 25 | #4,390 | 22 |
| 2011 | #6,148 | 21 | #4,221 | 23 |
| 2010 | #5,247 | 26 | #3,994 | 25 |
| 2009 | #5,097 | 28 | #4,160 | 24 |
| 2008 | #4,761 | 31 | #4,540 | 21 |
| 2007 | #6,093 | 22 | #4,996 | 18 |
| 2006 | #3,854 | 39 | #3,888 | 25 |
| 2005 | #4,373 | 31 | #3,941 | 23 |
| 2004 | #4,387 | 31 | #5,492 | 14 |
| 2003 | #4,668 | 27 | #6,715 | 10 |
| 2002 | #3,283 | 42 | #4,703 | 16 |
| 2001 | #3,091 | 45 | #3,617 | 23 |
| 2000 | #2,940 | 48 | #4,785 | 15 |
| 1999 | #3,048 | 43 | #9,912 | 5 |
| 1998 | #2,691 | 50 | #4,413 | 15 |
| 1997 | #2,874 | 42 | #6,100 | 9 |
| 1996 | #2,451 | 52 | #4,396 | 14 |
| 1995 | #2,216 | 60 | #6,407 | 8 |
| 1994 | #2,167 | 62 | #6,968 | 7 |
| 1993 | #1,942 | 72 | #5,360 | 10 |
| 1992 | #2,612 | 47 | #4,872 | 11 |
| 1991 | #1,752 | 82 | #4,231 | 13 |
| 1990 | #1,493 | 104 | #4,673 | 11 |
| 1989 | #1,426 | 104 | #5,165 | 9 |
| 1988 | #2,152 | 53 | #5,751 | 7 |
| 1987 | #2,434 | 42 | #4,968 | 8 |
| 1986 | #2,228 | 46 | #3,268 | 14 |
| 1985 | #1,833 | 61 | #4,333 | 9 |
| 1984 | #2,018 | 50 | #2,613 | 18 |
| 1983 | #1,839 | 57 | #4,907 | 7 |
| 1982 | #1,922 | 55 | #3,282 | 13 |
| 1981 | #1,663 | 69 | #3,221 | 13 |
| 1980 | #2,014 | 52 | #3,098 | 14 |
| 1979 | #1,661 | 67 | #1,903 | 28 |
| 1978 | #1,893 | 52 | #1,965 | 25 |
| 1977 | #1,483 | 74 | #2,202 | 21 |
| 1976 | #1,568 | 64 | #2,245 | 20 |
| 1975 | #1,516 | 67 | #2,065 | 22 |
| 1974 | #1,369 | 75 | #2,358 | 17 |
| 1973 | #1,857 | 45 | #1,982 | 21 |
| 1972 | #1,724 | 51 | #2,991 | 11 |
| 1971 | #1,877 | 46 | #2,366 | 16 |
| 1970 | #1,343 | 78 | #4,724 | 5 |
| 1969 | #2,704 | 24 | #2,861 | 10 |
| 1968 | #2,538 | 24 | #3,673 | 6 |
| 1967 | #2,868 | 19 | — | |
| 1966 | #2,937 | 18 | — | |
| 1965 | #4,202 | 10 | #3,244 | 7 |
| 1964 | #5,474 | 7 | — | |
| 1963 | #3,458 | 14 | #3,646 | 6 |
| 1962 | #3,782 | 12 | — | |
| 1961 | #3,318 | 15 | #3,356 | 7 |
| 1960 | #3,920 | 11 | — | |
| 1959 | #6,245 | 5 | #3,290 | 7 |
| 1958 | #3,925 | 10 | — | |
| 1957 | #3,489 | 12 | — | |
| 1956 | #5,952 | 5 | — | |
| 1955 | #4,740 | 7 | — | |
| 1954 | #4,278 | 8 | — | |
| 1953 | #5,673 | 5 | — | |
| 1952 | #5,563 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mica! It came in at #5,563, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1952–1953, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Mica
- 477 spots since 2024 (#6,394 → #5,917)
- 408 spots since 2020 (#6,325 → #5,917)
- 1,514 spots since 2015 (#4,403 → #5,917)
- Debuted 1952
- Peaked 1970 at #1,343 (78 births)
- Births halved by 2003, 33 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: never
- Highest: 1 in 17,726 girls born in 1989 were named Mica (0.01%)
- Latest: 1 in 80,363 girls born in 2025 (0.00%)
- Its best rank, #1,343 in 1970, was only 1 in 22,412 (0.00%) — a smaller share of a much bigger birth year
- 22.8% of all girls named Mica (619) were born in this decade
- Mostly girls until 2021, mostly boys since
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1950s | 57 | #3,489 (1957) | #4,983 |
| 1960s | 154 | #2,538 (1968) | #3,520 |
| 1970s | 619 | #1,343 (1970) | #1,629 |
| 1980s | 589 | #1,426 (1989) | #1,953 |
| 1990s | 614 | #1,493 (1990) | #2,325 |
| 2000s | 344 | #2,940 (2000) | #4,255 |
| 2010s | 227 | #4,403 (2015) | #5,860 |
| 2020s | 109 | #5,917 (2025) | #6,367 |
All figures count published births only (names given to at least 5 girls in a year). Registrations before 1937 are incomplete, so early shares and totals run low.
Mica in 1981
Top girls' names in 1981
Top boys' names in 1981
More about 1981
girls
1,668,060 girls got a published name in 1981; 1 in 24,175 of them was named Mica, which outranked 86.4% of the 12,198 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 17.3% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
- #1,641Season70
- #1,641Sybil70
- #1,641Teressa70
- #1,663Mica69
- #1,663Amity69
- #1,663Benjamin69
- #1,663Blaire69
- #1,674Anissa68
- #1,674Cassi68
- #1,674Cassondra68
Tied with 10 names at #1,663; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,791,177 boys got a published name in 1981; 1 in 137,783 of them was named Mica, which outranked 55.8% of the 7,289 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 23.6% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
- #3,030Zakee14
- #3,030Zenon14
- #3,030Zephaniah14
- #3,221Mica13
- #3,221Adolphus13
- #3,221Akiva13
- #3,221Alistair13
- #3,412Adriana12
- #3,412Adriano12
- #3,412Agustine12
Tied with 190 names at #3,221; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.