Michaela
#841 for girls in 2025, 323 births · Last seen for boys in 2004 at #9,948
Given to girls 99.9% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1997 · 3,398 births
- Debut · girls
- 5 births
- In top 100 · girls
- 1 yrof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 53,633since 1921
Michaela over time
Rank among girls' names. 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 | ||
|---|---|---|---|---|
| rank | births | rank | births | |
| 2025 | #841 | 323 | — | |
| 2024 | #742 | 379 | — | |
| 2023 | #638 | 459 | — | |
| 2022 | #578 | 516 | — | |
| 2021 | #578 | 523 | — | |
| 2020 | #644 | 449 | — | |
| 2019 | #613 | 492 | — | |
| 2018 | #531 | 591 | — | |
| 2017 | #517 | 608 | — | |
| 2016 | #471 | 674 | — | |
| 2015 | #496 | 647 | — | |
| 2014 | #477 | 663 | — | |
| 2013 | #409 | 744 | — | |
| 2012 | #430 | 726 | — | |
| 2011 | #406 | 778 | — | |
| 2010 | #390 | 814 | — | |
| 2009 | #368 | 876 | — | |
| 2008 | #358 | 922 | — | |
| 2007 | #340 | 971 | — | |
| 2006 | #331 | 1,003 | — | |
| 2005 | #287 | 1,153 | — | |
| 2004 | #283 | 1,167 | #9,948 | 6 |
| 2003 | #237 | 1,380 | — | |
| 2002 | #201 | 1,615 | — | |
| 2001 | #178 | 1,827 | — | |
| 2000 | #154 | 2,172 | — | |
| 1999 | #125 | 2,657 | #6,042 | 10 |
| 1998 | #103 | 3,341 | #9,631 | 5 |
| 1997 | #100 | 3,398 | #7,281 | 7 |
| 1996 | #102 | 3,176 | — | |
| 1995 | #107 | 3,083 | #6,992 | 7 |
| 1994 | #109 | 3,044 | #6,372 | 8 |
| 1993 | #169 | 1,853 | #6,228 | 8 |
| 1992 | #288 | 960 | — | |
| 1991 | #336 | 783 | — | |
| 1990 | #311 | 878 | — | |
| 1989 | #269 | 998 | #6,229 | 7 |
| 1988 | #378 | 633 | #7,270 | 5 |
| 1987 | #417 | 535 | — | |
| 1986 | #422 | 519 | — | |
| 1985 | #433 | 508 | — | |
| 1984 | #559 | 333 | — | |
| 1983 | #604 | 293 | — | |
| 1982 | #630 | 285 | — | |
| 1981 | #696 | 243 | — | |
| 1980 | #665 | 267 | — | |
| 1979 | #734 | 225 | — | |
| 1978 | #855 | 173 | — | |
| 1977 | #862 | 170 | — | |
| 1976 | #869 | 156 | — | |
| 1975 | #1,007 | 120 | — | |
| 1974 | #964 | 128 | — | |
| 1973 | #1,047 | 111 | — | |
| 1972 | #1,006 | 117 | — | |
| 1971 | #988 | 127 | — | |
| 1970 | #979 | 128 | — | |
| 1969 | #892 | 139 | — | |
| 1968 | #1,031 | 101 | — | |
| 1967 | #951 | 114 | — | |
| 1966 | #1,031 | 101 | #3,537 | 6 |
| 1965 | #1,013 | 106 | — | |
| 1964 | #1,125 | 95 | — | |
| 1963 | #1,188 | 84 | — | |
| 1962 | #1,359 | 66 | — | |
| 1961 | #1,305 | 72 | — | |
| 1960 | #1,523 | 53 | — | |
| 1959 | #1,466 | 54 | — | |
| 1958 | #1,395 | 58 | — | |
| 1957 | #1,262 | 69 | — | |
| 1956 | #1,194 | 76 | — | |
| 1955 | #1,157 | 74 | — | |
| 1954 | #1,140 | 75 | — | |
| 1953 | #1,225 | 62 | — | |
| 1952 | #1,088 | 75 | — | |
| 1951 | #1,203 | 60 | — | |
| 1950 | #1,524 | 37 | — | |
| 1949 | #1,489 | 38 | — | |
| 1948 | #1,548 | 36 | — | |
| 1947 | #1,752 | 30 | — | |
| 1946 | #1,439 | 37 | — | |
| 1945 | #1,588 | 27 | — | |
| 1944 | #1,698 | 24 | — | |
| 1943 | #1,791 | 23 | — | |
| 1942 | #1,559 | 28 | — | |
| 1941 | #2,018 | 17 | — | |
| 1940 | #2,297 | 13 | — | |
| 1939 | #1,797 | 19 | — | |
| 1938 | #2,225 | 14 | — | |
| 1937 | #2,448 | 12 | — | |
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| 1935 | #3,742 | 6 | — | |
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| 1933 | #3,406 | 7 | — | |
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| 1927 | #3,875 | 7 | — | |
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| 1923 | #4,967 | 5 | — | |
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| 1921 | #5,099 | 5 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Michaela! It came in at #5,099, and was given to 5 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1921–1926, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
See more about Michaela
- 99 spots since 2024 (#742 → #841)
- 197 spots since 2020 (#644 → #841)
- 345 spots since 2015 (#496 → #841)
- Biggest jump: 139 spots in 1969 (#1,031 → #892)
- Biggest drop: 104 spots in 2024 (#638 → #742)
- Debuted 1921
- Peaked 1997 at #100 (3,398 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 5 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: 1 yr · 1997
- Top 1,000: 55 yrs · run 1976–2025
- Highest: 1 in 512 girls born in 1997 were named Michaela (0.20%)
- Latest: 1 in 4,976 girls born in 2025 (0.02%)
- 43.2% of all girls named Michaela (23,173) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1920s | 17 | #3,875 (1927) | #4,647 |
| 1930s | 58 | #1,797 (1939) | #2,724 |
| 1940s | 273 | #1,439 (1946) | #1,718 |
| 1950s | 640 | #1,088 (1952) | #1,265 |
| 1960s | 931 | #892 (1969) | #1,142 |
| 1970s | 1,455 | #734 (1979) | #931 |
| 1980s | 4,614 | #269 (1989) | #507 |
| 1990s | 23,173 | #100 (1997) | #175 |
| 2000s | 13,086 | #154 (2000) | #274 |
| 2010s | 6,737 | #390 (2010) | #474 |
| 2020s | 2,649 | #578 (2021) | #670 |
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.
Michaela in 1998
Top girls' names in 1998
Top boys' names in 1998
More about 1998
girls
1,766,949 girls got a published name in 1998; 1 in 529 of them was named Michaela, which outranked 99.4% of the 16,601 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 11.2% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.
boys
1,911,366 boys got a published name in 1998; 1 in 382,273 of them was named Michaela, which outranked 14.9% of the 11,311 boys' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 14.7% of boys (44.2% in 1880, 8.0% in 2025).
Tied with 1,680 names at #9,631; 3 shown. Tied names share a rank, as in SSA's lists.
Among names in the top 1,000 of either year.