Mikala
Last seen for girls in 2023 at #15,194 · Last seen for boys in 1997 at #9,265
Given to girls 99.8% of the time
- Peak · girls
- 1995 · 324 births
- Debut · girls
- 6 births
- In top 100 · girls
- neverof 146 years
- Total births · girls
- 4,008since 1967
Mikala over time
Rank among girls' names. Mikala has never cracked the top 600 here.
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 | — | — | ||
| 2024 | — | — | ||
| 2023 | #15,194 | 5 | — | |
| 2022 | — | — | ||
| 2021 | #12,206 | 7 | — | |
| 2020 | #12,142 | 7 | — | |
| 2019 | #13,799 | 6 | — | |
| 2018 | #7,762 | 14 | — | |
| 2017 | #8,776 | 12 | — | |
| 2016 | #6,401 | 19 | — | |
| 2015 | #5,833 | 22 | — | |
| 2014 | #7,302 | 16 | — | |
| 2013 | #5,834 | 22 | — | |
| 2012 | #6,576 | 19 | — | |
| 2011 | #3,550 | 44 | — | |
| 2010 | #3,044 | 55 | — | |
| 2009 | #3,252 | 51 | — | |
| 2008 | #2,690 | 68 | — | |
| 2007 | #3,023 | 58 | — | |
| 2006 | #2,107 | 92 | — | |
| 2005 | #1,704 | 116 | — | |
| 2004 | #1,573 | 125 | — | |
| 2003 | #1,561 | 123 | — | |
| 2002 | #1,282 | 153 | — | |
| 2001 | #1,152 | 181 | — | |
| 2000 | #1,029 | 204 | — | |
| 1999 | #910 | 232 | — | |
| 1998 | #736 | 296 | — | |
| 1997 | #715 | 301 | #9,265 | 5 |
| 1996 | #730 | 288 | — | |
| 1995 | #659 | 324 | #8,868 | 5 |
| 1994 | #724 | 287 | — | |
| 1993 | #1,126 | 159 | — | |
| 1992 | #1,713 | 87 | — | |
| 1991 | #2,111 | 63 | — | |
| 1990 | #2,029 | 66 | — | |
| 1989 | #1,600 | 87 | — | |
| 1988 | #2,051 | 57 | — | |
| 1987 | #2,156 | 50 | — | |
| 1986 | #2,620 | 37 | — | |
| 1985 | #2,362 | 42 | — | |
| 1984 | #3,423 | 24 | — | |
| 1983 | #3,555 | 22 | — | |
| 1982 | #4,527 | 16 | — | |
| 1981 | #3,253 | 26 | — | |
| 1980 | #4,327 | 17 | — | |
| 1979 | #4,842 | 14 | — | |
| 1978 | #3,637 | 20 | — | |
| 1977 | #4,652 | 14 | — | |
| 1976 | #3,678 | 18 | — | |
| 1975 | #7,173 | 7 | — | |
| 1974 | #7,680 | 6 | — | |
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| 1971 | #4,810 | 11 | — | |
| 1970 | #7,995 | 5 | — | |
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| 1968 | #5,642 | 7 | — | |
| 1967 | #6,042 | 6 | — | |
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The first year at least five girls were named Mikala! It came in at #6,042, and was given to 6 baby girls.
Quietest stretch: 1969–1970, when fewer than 6 girls a year got the name.
Where Mikala is popular in 1999
- Rank in state
- Top 10
- 11–50
- 51–100
- 101–500
- 501+
- Not published
Hover or tap a state for its numbers.
- South Carolina#443 · 1 in 2,424
- Ohio#474 · 1 in 3,077
- Wisconsin#493 · 1 in 3,154
- Tennessee#576 · 1 in 3,828
- Virginia#579 · 1 in 3,817
Best ever in a state: #208 in Kansas, 1996.
Show every state
| State | Rank | Births | Share |
|---|---|---|---|
| South Carolina | #443 | 7 | 1 in 2,424 |
| Ohio | #474 | 20 | 1 in 3,077 |
| Wisconsin | #493 | 8 | 1 in 3,154 |
| Tennessee | #576 | 8 | 1 in 3,828 |
| Virginia | #579 | 9 | 1 in 3,817 |
| Minnesota | #581 | 6 | 1 in 4,163 |
| Oklahoma | #605 | 5 | 1 in 3,336 |
| Pennsylvania | #610 | 13 | 1 in 4,456 |
| Michigan | #662 | 11 | 1 in 4,663 |
| North Carolina | #664 | 9 | 1 in 4,722 |
| Missouri | #676 | 6 | 1 in 4,877 |
| Colorado | #773 | 5 | 1 in 4,613 |
| Illinois | #808 | 12 | 1 in 5,819 |
| Indiana | #832 | 5 | 1 in 6,643 |
| Texas | #919 | 22 | 1 in 6,692 |
| Florida | #1,059 | 9 | 1 in 8,302 |
| New York | #1,138 | 11 | 1 in 9,075 |
| California | #1,954 | 10 | 1 in 21,906 |
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Ranks are within each state; “1 in N” is out of the girls born there that year. The SSA only publishes a name in a state when 5 or more babies of one sex got it.
See more about Mikala
- Not published in 2025; last seen 2023
- Biggest jump: 402 spots in 1994 (#1,126 → #724)
- Biggest drop: 174 spots in 1999 (#736 → #910)
- Debuted 1967
- Peaked 1995 at #659 (324 births)
- Births halved by 2002, 7 yrs later
- Top 10: never
- Top 100: never
- Top 1,000: 6 yrs · run 1994–1999
- Highest: 1 in 5,428 girls born in 1995 were named Mikala (0.02%)
- Latest: 1 in 320,916 girls born in 2023 (0.00%)
- 52.5% of all girls named Mikala (2,103) were born in this decade
Show by decade
| Decade | Births | Best rank | Avg rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 13 | #5,642 (1968) | #5,842 |
| 1970s | 95 | #3,637 (1978) | #5,558 |
| 1980s | 378 | #1,600 (1989) | #2,987 |
| 1990s | 2,103 | #659 (1995) | #1,145 |
| 2000s | 1,171 | #1,029 (2000) | #1,937 |
| 2010s | 229 | #3,044 (2010) | #6,888 |
| 2020s | 19 | #12,142 (2020) | #13,181 |
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.
Mikala in 1999
Top girls' names in 1999
More about 1999
girls
1,773,823 girls got a published name in 1999; 1 in 7,646 of them was named Mikala, which outranked 94.6% of the 16,947 girls' names that year. The ten most popular names covered 10.7% of girls (24.6% in 1880, 7.0% in 2025).