girls:
15 births since 2000
#5701 (0th percentile)
boys:
725 births since 1997
#3862 (16th percentile)
overall:
740 births since 1997
#6999 (10th percentile)
The name Mikai is the #6,999 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 740 recorded births since 1997. This represents the 9.5% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 9.5% of all names). For boys, it ranks #3,862 (15.7% percentile) for all time with 725 births since 1997. For girls, it ranks #5,701 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 15 births since 2000.
Mikai first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1997 (1997 for boys and 2000 for girls).
The name Mikai has been given almost exclusively to boys, with 98.0% of all recorded births being male.
For boys, Mikai reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 6.2% percentile (ranked #819) with 28 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 28 births per million (ranked 6.2% percentile). Since reaching a high point around 2021, the popularity of this name for boys has been declining. Currently, Mikai ranks #888 for boys (2.5% percentile) with 15 births per million, which is 55.1% of its peak share of births.
For girls, Mikai reached its peak popularity in 2020, achieving the 0.0% percentile (ranked #940) with 3 births per million. The name was most common in 2020, with 3 births per million (ranked 0.0% percentile). There have been no recorded female births with this name since 2020.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikai".
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Our model has identified 4 different pronunciations for the name Mikai. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 65.6% confident that Mikai is pronounced as mih-KAI, which has 2 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is MIH-kay, at 15.6% confidence, with 2 syllables.
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