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

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Peak · girls
1970 · 78 births
Debut · girls
5 births
In top 100 · girls
never
of 146 years
Total births · girls
2,713
since 1952

Mica over time

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Rank within each sex, plotted together. Click any year to open it.

#1#10#100#1,000#10,000rank188019001920194019601980200020201981peak #1,343, 1970peak #1,903, 1979girlsboys
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Gaps mean fewer than 5 babies received the name that year, so the SSA doesn't publish it.

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Yeargirlsboys
rankbirthsrankbirths
2025#5,91720#4,39623
2024#6,39418#3,89628
2023#6,40918#4,45623
2022#6,98416#4,30324
2021#6,17419#6,03214
2020#6,32518#4,14124
2019#5,30624#3,79428
2018#6,24819#4,91819
2017#8,29913#4,33123
2016#6,40119#6,72612
2015#4,40332#4,54521
2014#4,89228#4,53821
2013#6,25520#4,80419
2012#5,39825#4,39022
2011#6,14821#4,22123
2010#5,24726#3,99425
2009#5,09728#4,16024
2008#4,76131#4,54021
2007#6,09322#4,99618
2006#3,85439#3,88825
2005#4,37331#3,94123
2004#4,38731#5,49214
2003#4,66827#6,71510
2002#3,28342#4,70316
2001#3,09145#3,61723
2000#2,94048#4,78515
1999#3,04843#9,9125
1998#2,69150#4,41315
1997#2,87442#6,1009
1996#2,45152#4,39614
1995#2,21660#6,4078
1994#2,16762#6,9687
1993#1,94272#5,36010
1992#2,61247#4,87211
1991#1,75282#4,23113
1990#1,493104#4,67311
1989#1,426104#5,1659
1988#2,15253#5,7517
1987#2,43442#4,9688
1986#2,22846#3,26814
1985#1,83361#4,3339
1984#2,01850#2,61318
1983#1,83957#4,9077
1982#1,92255#3,28213
1981#1,66369#3,22113
1980#2,01452#3,09814
1979#1,66167#1,90328
1978#1,89352#1,96525
1977#1,48374#2,20221
1976#1,56864#2,24520
1975#1,51667#2,06522
1974#1,36975#2,35817
1973#1,85745#1,98221
1972#1,72451#2,99111
1971#1,87746#2,36616
1970#1,34378#4,7245
1969#2,70424#2,86110
1968#2,53824#3,6736
1967#2,86819
1966#2,93718
1965#4,20210#3,2447
1964#5,4747
1963#3,45814#3,6466
1962#3,78212
1961#3,31815#3,3567
1960#3,92011
1959#6,2455#3,2907
1958#3,92510
1957#3,48912
1956#5,9525
1955#4,7407
1954#4,2788
1953#5,6735
1952#5,5635
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First appearance
1952

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
Momentum · girls
Holding steady
  • 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)
Rise & fade · girls
18 yrs to peak
  • Debuted 1952
  • Peaked 1970 at #1,343 (78 births)
  • Births halved by 2003, 33 yrs later
Top of the charts · girls
Never in the top 1,000
  • Top 10: never
  • Top 100: never
  • Top 1,000: never
Share of babies · girls
1 in 17,726
  • 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
Era · girls
The 1970s
  • 22.8% of all girls named Mica (619) were born in this decade
Girls or boys?
Flipped in 2022
  • Mostly girls until 2021, mostly boys since
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Show by decade
DecadeBirthsBest rankAvg rank
1950s57#3,489 (1957)#4,983
1960s154#2,538 (1968)#3,520
1970s619#1,343 (1970)#1,629
1980s589#1,426 (1989)#1,953
1990s614#1,493 (1990)#2,325
2000s344#2,940 (2000)#4,255
2010s227#4,403 (2015)#5,860
2020s109#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

girls
#1,663
69 births · 1 in 24,175 girls
boys
#3,221
13 births · 1 in 137,783 boys

Top girls' names in 1981

  1. #1Jennifer57,046
  2. #2Jessica42,531
  3. #3Amanda34,372
  4. #4Sarah28,175
  5. #5Melissa28,005
  6. #6Amy20,345
  7. #7Nicole20,310
  8. #8Stephanie20,212
  9. #9Elizabeth20,168
  10. #10Heather17,946
  11. #1,663Mica69

Top boys' names in 1981

  1. #1Michael68,750
  2. #2Christopher50,221
  3. #3Matthew43,330
  4. #4Jason41,927
  5. #5David40,629
  6. #6Joshua39,024
  7. #7James38,283
  8. #8John34,868
  9. #9Robert34,395
  10. #10Daniel30,985
  11. #3,221Mica13
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).

Ranked beside Mica
  1. #1,641Season70
  2. #1,641Sybil70
  3. #1,641Teressa70
  4. #1,663Mica69
  5. #1,663Amity69
  6. #1,663Benjamin69
  7. #1,663Blaire69
  8. #1,674Anissa68
  9. #1,674Cassi68
  10. #1,674Cassondra68

Tied with 10 names at #1,663; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 3,850Tashina#4,743#893
  2. 2,742Krystle#3,215#473
  3. 1,800Tierra#2,342#542
  4. 1,398Martine#2,189#791
  5. 999Nereida#1,981#982
Fallers
  1. 764Kylene#990#1,754
  2. 607Renada#708#1,315
  3. 560Ashanti#822#1,382
  4. 399Renata#336#735
  5. 395Tracee#959#1,354

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).

Ranked beside Mica
  1. #3,030Zakee14
  2. #3,030Zenon14
  3. #3,030Zephaniah14
  4. #3,221Mica13
  5. #3,221Adolphus13
  6. #3,221Akiva13
  7. #3,221Alistair13
  8. #3,412Adriana12
  9. #3,412Adriano12
  10. #3,412Agustine12

Tied with 190 names at #3,221; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.

Biggest movers since 1980
Risers
  1. 1,321Marchello#2,162#841
  2. 1,104Skylar#2,058#954
  3. 816Kellen#1,432#616
  4. 499Marcello#1,291#792
  5. 456Tyrel#1,089#633
Fallers
  1. 306Kenyatta#871#1,177
  2. 284Seneca#718#1,002
  3. 247Kimberly#989#1,236
  4. 216Chadd#927#1,143
  5. 214Levar#911#1,125

Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.

See the top 100 for 1981