girls:
56k births since 1970
#535 (91st percentile)
boys:
11 births since 2004
#4575 (0th percentile)
overall:
56k births since 1970
#1000 (87th percentile)
The name Mikayla is the #1,000 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 55,979 recorded births since 1970. This represents the 87.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 87.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #535 (90.7% percentile) for all time with 55,968 births since 1970. For boys, it ranks #4,575 (0.2% percentile) for all time with 11 births since 2004.
Mikayla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1970 (1970 for girls and 2004 for boys). Birth data for Mikayla is available in 50 out of the 54 years between 1970 and 2023 (50 years for girls and 1 years for boys). 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.
The name Mikayla has been given almost exclusively to girls, with 100.0% of all recorded births being female.
For girls, Mikayla reached its peak popularity in 1998, achieving the 90.7% percentile (ranked #82) with 1,990 births per million. The name was most common in 1998, with 1,990 births per million (ranked 90.7% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2001, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mikayla ranks #517 for girls (45.5% percentile) with 276 births per million, which is 13.9% of its peak share of births.
For boys, Mikayla reached its peak popularity in 2004, achieving the 0.7% percentile (ranked #841) with 5 births per million. The name was most common in 2004, with 5 births per million (ranked 0.7% percentile). There have been no recorded male births with this name since 2004.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikayla".
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Our model has identified 5 different pronunciations for the name Mikayla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 62.2% confident that Mikayla is pronounced as mih-KAY-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is muh-KAY-luh, at 13.3% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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