Mikaylah
- Gender
- Girl
- Say it
- mi-KAY-la
- Origin
- Hebrew
- US rank, 2025
- #10,913 for girls
Mikaylah 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 Mikaylah 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 Mikaylah a girl's or a boy's name?
Mikaylah 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 Mikaylah in the US?
- Rank in 2025
- 10,913th among girls
- Babies in 2025
- 8 about 1 in 200,000 girls
- Five-year trend
- Falling down 37% in five years
- Same name in a class
- under 1% chance among 15 girls
In 2025, 8 girls in the US were named Mikaylah, making it the 10,913th most popular name for girls. Five years earlier, in 2020, it was 4,878th. Its busiest year was 2005, with 156 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.
2025 had the fewest girls named Mikaylah since it first appeared, in 1993.
Half of all the girls named Mikaylah in the US since 1880 were born between 2002 and 2011, the years shaded on the chart below.
In 2025, 1,020 girls in the US were given Mikaylah 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.
Mikaylah in the US, year by year
| Year | Girls | Rank |
|---|---|---|
| 2025 | 8 | #10,913 |
| 2024 | 15 | #7,247 |
| 2023 | 13 | #8,050 |
| 2022 | 14 | #7,626 |
| 2021 | 19 | #6,170 |
| 2020 | 26 | #4,878 |
| 2019 | 10 | #9,730 |
| 2018 | 21 | #5,781 |
| 2017 | 22 | #5,657 |
| 2016 | 25 | #5,283 |
| 2015 | 32 | #4,402 |
| 2014 | 37 | #4,001 |
| 2013 | 44 | #3,511 |
| 2012 | 62 | #2,804 |
| 2011 | 62 | #2,795 |
| 2010 | 80 | #2,360 |
| 2009 | 83 | #2,337 |
| 2008 | 73 | #2,557 |
| 2007 | 103 | #1,988 |
| 2006 | 105 | #1,918 |
| 2005 | 156 | #1,378 |
| 2004 | 57 | #2,804 |
| 2003 | 44 | #3,287 |
| 2002 | 59 | #2,602 |
| 2001 | 45 | #3,087 |
| 2000 | 58 | #2,565 |
| 1999 | 66 | #2,255 |
| 1998 | 63 | #2,241 |
| 1997 | 36 | #3,221 |
| 1996 | 31 | #3,564 |
| 1995 | 28 | #3,775 |
| 1994 | 14 | #6,313 |
| 1993 | 12 | #7,031 |
Names like Mikaylah
Names given in the same years and the same naming tradition, with a similar sound.
Hadassah, Aaliyah, Taliyah, Kaliyah, Zaniyah, Jaliyah, Selah, Zariah, Azariah, Zamira, Kamiyah, Samiyah
Other spellings of Mikaylah
Mikayla, Michaela, Mikaela, Michaella, Mikeyla, Mikaella, Mickayla, Mikhayla, Micheala
Names related to Mikaylah
More Hebrew names
Noah, Isabella, Elijah, James, Jack, Mia, Ava, Jude, Ezra, Benjamin, Isaac, Jacob, Ethan, Daniel, Samuel, Elias
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, “Mikaylah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mikaylah, updated 20 October 2026.