How Many People Are Named Michayla?

1,381

people named Michayla are alive in the United States today (estimate)

About 1 in 247,490 people in the US has this name

Based on 1,399 babies named Michayla in Social Security records from 1986 to 2022, and the share of each birth year still alive in 2025.

Popularity Rank

#8,605

💎💎 Very Rare

Rank Among Girl Names

#4,808

See the top 100

Peak Year

1997

102 births

Trend

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Stable (last 10 years)

📖 Name Origin & Meaning

Origin: English (Rare)
Pronunciation: mə-KAY-lə
Gender: Primarily Female

Meaning:

Variant of MICHAELA.

Source of the meaning, origin, pronunciation and related names: Behind the Name.

Same Sound, Other Spellings

These names are pronounced like Michayla in English. Counting Michayla and these spellings together, about 178,116 people alive in the US have the name.

⚧ Gender Distribution

Female
100.0%
Male
0.0%

All of the babies given the name Michayla in the records were girls.

👥 Age Distribution

The average person named Michayla alive today is about 23 years old, and 83% are under 30. Half of them were between 18 and 28 in 2025.

Under 30 1,141
82.6%
30 to 59 240
17.4%
60 and over 0
0%

📈 Popularity Over Time

Michayla first appears in the records in 1986 and was given most often in 1997, to 102 babies. The last year it was given to at least 5 babies of one sex was 2022.

Babies given the name each year, 1986 to 2022

🏆 Rank History

Michayla has never been one of the 100 most popular girls' names. Its best rank was #1,578, in 1997.

Girls
Rank in 2025Not ranked
Best rank#1,578 (1997)
Years in the top 100None
Rank in its biggest decade#2,831 in the 2000s

📍 State-Wise Distribution

People named Michayla alive today, by the state where they were born (estimate; state records start in 1910).

More people named Michayla were born in California than in any other state: about 60 of those alive today. Compared with the national rate in the same years, Michayla was given 3.7 times as often in Florida and 1.4 times in California.

California 60
Florida 52
Texas 31
Ohio 29
New York 28
Pennsylvania 20
Massachusetts 13
Missouri 11
Oklahoma 6
Tennessee 5
Illinois 5
Georgia 5
Kentucky 5
Indiana 5
Michigan 5

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