Mikayla
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Variant of Michaela; Hebrew 'who is like God?'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
Mikayla is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in the United States than in any other country.
- USUnited States1 in 6.8K(measured from records)
- AUAustralia≈1 in 7.9K
- CACanada≈1 in 50K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- United States (measured from records)
- 2 (measured from records)
- Sources
- 389 (measured from records)
- 1 in 6.8K (inferred from the name graph)
48,659 people, 2020
recorded for this name
Highest-authority source
United States
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Spellings & scripts(measured from records)
Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Variant of Michaela; Hebrew 'who is like God?'
Sources 1
- Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Mikayla counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | — | 48,659 | 1 in 6.8K | 49K | Mikayla | 389 |
| AU Australia | #801 | ≈3,200 est. | ≈1 in 7.9K | 83 | Mikayla | 136 |
| MY Malaysia | — | ≈760 est. | ≈1 in 43K | — | Mikayla | 13 |
| CA Canada | — | ≈750 est. | ≈1 in 50K | 9 | Mikayla | 143 |
| GB United Kingdom | — | ≈530 est. | ≈1 in 124K | 5 | Mikayla | 116 |
| NZ New Zealand | #712 | ≈220 est. | ≈1 in 22K | 10 | Mikayla | 70 |
48,659 people counted by Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex, 2020. Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present); Alberta Open Government — Frequency and Ranking of Baby Names by Year and Gender; NISRA — Baby names Northern Ireland full list (1997–present); DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Mikayla is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
In English, A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.
as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)
In English, variant of Michaela; "who is like God?"
as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Mikayla Mendezb. 1980USAmerican pornographic actress, born 1980
- Mikayla Soo-ni Campbellb. 1990actress
- Mikayla Rainesb. 1995USAmerican wildlife rescuer/rehabilitator and YouTuber (1995–2025)
- Mikayla Pirinib. 1996NZAustralian basketball player (born 1996)
- Mikayla Martinb. 1997CACanadian skicrosser (1997-2019)
- Mikayla Harveyb. 1998NZNew Zealand cyclist
- Mikayla Hinkleyb. 1998AUcricketer
- Mikayla Dayesb. 1999CACanadian association football player
- Mikayla Cluffb. 1999USAmerican soccer player
- Koffeeb. 2000JMnot in their usual nameJamaican singer-songwriter, rapper, DJ and guitarist
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 53 sources across 33 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 49K | #922 |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2025 | 364 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1999 | 322 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 1998 | 307 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2000 | 294 | — |
| CA Canada | Statistics Canada — First names at birth by sex at birth (Table 17-10-0147-01) | 2024 | 98 | — |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 90 | #922 |
| AU Australia | NSW BDM — Popular baby names (1952–present) | 2013 | 83 | #82 |
| AU Australia | QLD BDM — Top 100 Baby Names Queensland (1960–present) | 2012 | 59 | — |
| US United States | SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) | 2004 | 11 | — |
| NZ New Zealand | DIA — Baby name popularity (1900–present) | 2025 | 10 | — |
| AU Australia | Australian national given names (aggregated state BDM) | 2017 | 10 | — |
Reference works 2
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- Is Mikayla a male or female name?
- Mikayla is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Mikayla mean, and where does it come from?
- Variant of Michaela; Hebrew 'who is like God?' Recorded by Baby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular….
- What are other forms of the name Mikayla?
- In the etymology graph, Michelle, Michele and Micaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- In which country does Mikayla have the most bearers?
- In the United States, the national register counted about 49 thousand people named Mikayla, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mikayla.
- Where is Mikayla most common?
- Mikayla is densest in the United States, where the national register counts about 1 in 6.8 thousand people carrying it.
- How common is the name Mikayla?
- In the United States, the national register counted 48,659 people named Mikayla in 2020, about 1 in 6.8 thousand residents.
- How common is Mikayla compared with other names?
- In New Zealand, Mikayla is the 712th most common given name of 26,737 given names recorded there.
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/mikaylaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Mikayla” — the 712th most common given name in New Zealand. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.