girls:
1.4k births since 1986
#4330 (24th percentile)
overall:
1.4k births since 1986
#6345 (18th percentile)
The name Michayla is the #6,345 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,398 recorded births since 1986. This represents the 18.0% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 18.0% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,330 (24.2% percentile) for all time with 1,398 births since 1986.
Michayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1986 (first recorded for girls in 1986). Birth data for Michayla is available in 36 out of the 37 years between 1986 and 2022. The Social Security Administration only reports birth data for years in which the name was given to at least five children of the same gender.
For girls, Michayla reached its peak popularity in 1997, achieving the 11.3% percentile (ranked #766) with 53 births per million. The name was most common in 1997, with 53 births per million (ranked 11.3% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2022.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Michayla".
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Our model has identified 7 different pronunciations for the name Michayla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 47.4% confident that Michayla is pronounced as mih-KAY-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-SHAY-luh, at 15.8% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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