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How popular is the name Mikayla?
Births per year, rank history and how many Mikaylas are alive today.
Mikayla (female) is an uncommon girls' name in England and Wales, ranked 973rd in 2025 with 36 babies given the name. The name peaked in 2011, when 57 babies were given the name, the 681st most popular that year. Its fortunes dipped to rank 1634 in 2019 before climbing back to the 973rd place it holds today. Numbers have been rising in recent years. Common short forms of Mikayla include Mia and Mica.
The Mikayla you are most likely to meet is around 14 years old - or else around 2: the name has two living generations. Half of all Mikaylas born in England and Wales are between 9 and 21, and there are at least 1,000 of them alive today. If you walk into a room of 100 females, there's less than a 1% chance that anyone will be called Mikayla - on average, only one in every 315 such rooms contains a Mikayla.
How many babies are named Mikayla each year?
Where does Mikayla rank among girls' names?
Where this data comes from
Figures from 1996 onwards are the Office for National Statistics' annual baby-name registrations for England and Wales, which record every name given to three or more babies in a year. Figures before 1996 are estimates: the ONS published only top-100 rankings at ten-year intervals back to 1904, so counts for those years are modelled from the rankings, calibrated against Douglas Galbi's long-run research into English name frequencies, and shown with an uncertainty band. Estimates of living bearers combine these birth figures with national life tables and ONS mid-year population estimates.
One limit worth naming: these figures count names as registered at birth. Anyone who changes their name later in life - including trans people, and anyone who adopts a different name by deed poll or simply by use - is not reflected here. Birth registrations record where a name began, not the name a person lives with.
Common questions
When was the name Mikayla most popular?
Mikayla peaked in 2011, when 57 babies in England and Wales were given the name.
How many people are called Mikayla?
At least 1,000 people named Mikayla born in England and Wales are alive today.
How old is the typical Mikayla?
Most living Mikaylas are between 9 and 21; the most common age is about 14. There is a second cluster around 2.
Is Mikayla becoming more or less popular?
Rising: numbers have been climbing in recent years.