girls:
1.5k births since 1993
#4244 (26th percentile)
overall:
1.5k births since 1993
#6246 (19th percentile)
The name Mikaylah is the #6,246 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,499 recorded births since 1993. This represents the 19.3% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 19.3% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,244 (25.7% percentile) for all time with 1,499 births since 1993.
Mikaylah first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1993 (first recorded for girls in 1993).
For girls, Mikaylah reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 16.1% percentile (ranked #788) with 77 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 77 births per million (ranked 16.1% percentile). Since reaching a high point in 2009, the popularity of this name for girls has been declining. Currently, Mikaylah ranks #939 for girls (0.8% percentile) with 7 births per million, which is 9.7% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikaylah".
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Our model has identified 3 different pronunciations for the name Mikaylah. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 82.9% confident that Mikaylah is pronounced as mih-KAY-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KAI-luh, at 8.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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