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Mickayla

Gender
Girl
Say it
mi-KAY-la
Origin
Hebrew
US rank, 2025
#10,913 for girls

Mickayla is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 10,913th for girls in the US (8 babies).

What does Mickayla mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Mikayla; modern respelling of Michaela

“who is like God?”

A modern respelling of Michaela, the feminine of Michael.

Meaning borrowed from Mikayla. More on Wiktionary.

Is Mickayla a girl's or a boy's name?

Mickayla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 8 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mickayla in the UK?

No girls in the UK were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2007, with 6 girls.

1996Busiest: 6 in 20072020
Mickayla in the UK, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20201#7,326
20190–
20183#5,896
20171#7,682
20164#4,980
20150–
20141#7,592
20130–
20120–
20113#6,007
20106#3,715
20090–
20080–
20076#3,396
20060–
20054#4,150
20040–
20030–
20020–
20010–
20000–
19990–
19985#2,855
19970–
19963#3,935

How popular is Mickayla in the US?

Rank in 2025
#10,913among girls
Babies in 2025
8about 1 in 200,000 girls
Five-year trend
Too rare to calltoo few babies to tell
Same name in a class
under 1%chance among 15 girls

In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Mickayla, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 12,137th. Its busiest year was 1999, with 160 girls. It first appears in the records in 1985.

Half of all the girls named Mickayla in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,020 girls in the US were given Mickayla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #328, up from #10,913 for this spelling alone.

1985Busiest: 160 in 19992025
Mickayla in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20258#10,913
20246#13,472
20238#11,164
202211#9,050
202114#7,625
20207#12,137
201915#7,338
201814#7,758
201711#9,337
201621#5,983
201522#5,831
201422#5,795
201325#5,315
201226#5,251
201137#3,998
201040#3,815
200932#4,570
200842#3,778
200760#2,964
200658#2,939
200566#2,576
200472#2,367
200366#2,462
200277#2,155
200171#2,255
2000124#1,479
1999160#1,197
1998146#1,240
1997152#1,192
1996110#1,483
1995101#1,525
1994105#1,491
199345#2,671
199219#5,044
199118#5,175
199016#5,544
198922#4,242
198811#6,661
19870–
19867#8,518
19855#10,672

Names like Mickayla

Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.

Other spellings of Mickayla

Names related to Mickayla

More Hebrew names

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Sources

Figures from Baby names in England and Wales (Office for National Statistics), Babies' first names (National Records of Scotland), Baby names (Northern Ireland Statistics and Research Agency) and Popular Baby Names (US Social Security Administration). Nameling last updated them on 20 October 2026. How the figures are worked out, and the data to download.

To cite this page: Nameling, “Mickayla: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mickayla, updated 20 October 2026.