Mikasa
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mee-KAH-sa
- Origin
- Japanese
- US rank, 2025
- #6,545 for girls
Mikasa is a girls' name of Japanese origin. In 2025 it ranked 6,545th for girls in the US (17 babies).
What does Mikasa mean?
Japanese: Japanese place name
Mikasa Ackerman is a lead character in the anime Attack on Titan; the battleship Mikasa was named after Mount Mikasa in Nara.
Is Mikasa a girl's or a boy's name?
Mikasa is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 17 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.
How popular is Mikasa in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 6,545th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 17 about 1 in 95,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Too rare to call too few babies to tell
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 17 girls in the US were named Mikasa, making it the 6,545th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 13,448th. It first appears in the records in 2018.
2025 had the most girls named Mikasa of any year since it first appeared, in 2018.
Half of all the girls named Mikasa in the US since 1880 were born between 2021 and 2024, the years shaded on the chart below.
Mikasa in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 17 | #6,545 |
| 2024 | 11 | #8,941 |
| 2023 | 11 | #8,984 |
| 2022 | 11 | #9,050 |
| 2021 | 8 | #11,141 |
| 2020 | 6 | #13,448 |
| 2019 | 7 | #12,442 |
| 2018 | 6 | #13,788 |
Names like Mikasa
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Miyori, Kyomi, Yuna, Namiko, Ainhoa, Minha, Yumi, Mayumi, Rumi, Saori, Tru, Kiyomi
More Japanese names
Kobe, Kaizen, Raiden, Ren, Akari, Kenzo, Ronin, Akira, Emi, Kairi, Miya, Kenji, Reo, Jiraiya, Aizen, Sora
Sources
Figures from 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, “Mikasa: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mikasa, updated 20 October 2026.