Girl · American (modern), from Hebrew
Mikayla
Say it: mih-KAY-luh
Meaning
A modern American respelling of Michaela, the feminine of Michael (Hebrew 'who is like God?').
Certainscholars agree on this meaning.
Popular in the US in the late 1990s and 2000s.
Its wave through time
Fading since the 1990s
In the United States
- 54,553 babies given this name since 1970
- At its height in 1998, about 1 in 458 girls
- 548 babies in 2020
Through the ages
Used by
The family of the name
Other spellings: Makayla, Michaela, Mikaela
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Where this comes from
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
- Modern use, as a recently created name
- United States Social Security birth records, 1880 to today source
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