Mikhayla

Gender: Girl
Say it: mi-KAY-la
Origin: Hebrew
US rank, 2025: #14,937 for girls

Mikhayla is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. In 2025 it ranked 14,937th for girls in the US (5 babies).

What does Mikhayla 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 Mikhayla a girl's or a boy's name?

Mikhayla is a girls' name. In 2025, it was given to 5 girls in the US. Too few boys were given it to be listed.

How popular is Mikhayla in the US?

Rank in 2025: 14,937th among girls
Babies in 2025: 5 about 1 in 320,000 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, 5 girls in the US were named Mikhayla, making it the 14,937th most popular name for girls. Its busiest year was 1997, with 33 girls. It first appears in the records in 1993.

2025 had more girls named Mikhayla than any year since 2016.

Half of all the girls named Mikhayla in the US since 1880 were born between 1997 and 2004, the years shaded on the chart below.

In 2025, 1,020 girls in the US were given Mikhayla or a name that sounds the same. With every name's spellings counted this way, that ranks #328, up from #14,937 for this spelling alone.

1993Busiest: 33 in 19972025

Mikhayla in the US, year by year

Year	Girls	Rank
2025	5	#14,937
2024	0	–
2023	0	–
2022	0	–
2021	0	–
2020	0	–
2019	0	–
2018	0	–
2017	0	–
2016	9	#10,855
2015	5	#16,413
2014	0	–
2013	0	–
2012	9	#11,251
2011	8	#12,146
2010	9	#11,240
2009	8	#12,423
2008	5	#17,498
2007	11	#10,125
2006	13	#8,711
2005	11	#9,447
2004	15	#7,386
2003	14	#7,575
2002	14	#7,438
2001	28	#4,317
2000	28	#4,286
1999	25	#4,440
1998	33	#3,570
1997	33	#3,445
1996	28	#3,826
1995	27	#3,873
1994	23	#4,371
1993	15	#5,949