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Mykalah

Gender
Girl
Say it
mi-KAY-la
Origin
Hebrew

Mykalah is a girls' name of Hebrew origin, meaning “who is like God?”. Too few babies were given it in the latest year to rank.

What does Mykalah mean?

Hebrew: spelling of Mykala; respelling of Michaela, the feminine form of Michael

“who is like God?”

A respelling of Michaela, the feminine form of Michael.

Meaning borrowed from Mykala.

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

Mykalah is a girls' name.

How popular is Mykalah in the US?

No girls in the US were given it in 2025, or too few to be listed. Its busiest year was 2005, with 26 girls. It first appears in the records in 1997.

Half of all the girls named Mykalah in the US since 1880 were born between 2000 and 2006, the years shaded on the chart below.

1997Busiest: 26 in 20052011
Mykalah in the US, year by year
YearGirlsRank
20116#14,816
20100–
20097#13,698
20089#11,594
20075#17,630
200615#7,865
200526#4,954
20049#10,684
20030–
200213#7,810
20019#10,095
200012#8,020
199912#7,710
199816#6,068
19976#12,065

Names like Mykalah

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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, “Mykalah: name meaning, origin and popularity”, https://www.nameling.co.uk/names/mykalah, updated 20 October 2026.