girls:
1.1k births since 1988
#4623 (19th percentile)
overall:
1.1k births since 1988
#6646 (14th percentile)
The name Mikyla is the #6,646 most popular name of all time in the U.S. on a gender-neutral basis, with a total of 1,093 recorded births since 1988. This represents the 14.1% percentile of name popularity (more popular than 14.1% of all names). For girls, it ranks #4,623 (19.1% percentile) for all time with 1,093 births since 1988.
Mikyla first appeared in U.S. birth records in 1988 (first recorded for girls in 1988).
For girls, Mikyla reached its peak popularity in 2005, achieving the 6.4% percentile (ranked #879) with 32 births per million. The name was most common in 2005, with 32 births per million (ranked 6.4% percentile). Despite a low point in 2010, the name has seen a recent decline in popularity for girls. Currently, Mikyla ranks #944 for girls (0.3% percentile) with 5 births per million, which is 14.3% of its peak share of births.
This chart shows the total number of births per million babies in each year for the name "Mikyla".
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Our model has identified 9 different pronunciations for the name Mikyla. Click the play button under each pronunciation to hear it spoken aloud.
Our model is 24.3% confident that Mikyla is pronounced as mih-KAI-luh, which has 3 syllables. The next most likely pronunciation is mih-KAY-luh, at 21.6% confidence, with 3 syllables.
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The raw pronunciations shown (like M IH0 K AY1 L AH0) use the ARPAbet phoneme system, a standardized way to represent English speech sounds. Each symbol represents a distinct sound in American English. Visit the ARPAbet Wikipedia page to learn more about these phonetic symbols.
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