The name Michaela originated from the Hebrew name Mikha’el meaning ‘who is like God?’. It is a widely used name, known for example in Israel, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
Michaela is a female first name. In very rare cases it is also used for boys.
The name Michaela isn’t among the current fashionable names in our top 10 stats, but nonetheless, it’s still very popular and common. In our SmartGenius ranking of all girls names, Michaela ranks 476. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 4 were named Michaela. In the entire USA, approximately 49,277 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Michaela. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Michaela originated from the Hebrew name Mikha’el meaning ‘who is like God?’. It is a widely used name, known for example in Israel, Germany, Poland, and the Czech Republic.
Michaela was very.. popular in the U.S. during the 1990s.
This was a real surprise! Michaela is a name that has been around for a long time, but only really took off at the end of the 20th century. According to our SmartGenius statistics, it reached its highest rank at #98 in the year 1997, when 3,405 parents chose this name for their newborn daughter. This made Michaela much more popular than in previous generations, where it was so rare for several years that it was not even recorded in the statistics. Now, this name seems to have found its place and has established itself in the beginning of the 21st century as well.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Michaela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
In 2022, Michaela ranked 531 in our SmartGenius statistics. In absolute figures, this means it was given to baby girls a total of 509 times. No one knows what names (or combinations of numbers and letters) will be popular 50 years from now, but given its consistent popularity, there is a good chance that Michaela will remain a universally popular name.
The name Michaela may not be in the top rankings of the most popular girls’ names, but it is one of the few female given names, along with only 536 others, that can be found in every single state in the U.S. from Alaska to Florida and from California to New York. Of course, the name occurs more frequently in some states than in others – and Michaela is apparently especially popular in Rhode Island. Although the name is not one of the top 100 most popular women’s names here either, one in 732 women in Rhode Island is called Michaela. In total, that’s 763 women who feel addressed when the name Michaela is shouted loudly across Rhode Island and who ensure that their name makes it to #189 in our SmartGenius ranking of the most common female names in this nice state. If you asked all women in the entire U.S. for their first name, you would hear Michaela as the answer a total of 49,272 times. This places Michaela at #520 in our SmartGenius statistics for the most popular women’s names in the whole of the USA. This is true for all currently living women across all states and age groups – the recent popularity of the name Michaela as a baby name is, of course, a bit different, as you can see from the statistics above.
Well, you might say, you probably figured that out yourself! But what you might not know is: The letter M is a quite popular first letter for girls' names. That’s because 8.5% of all common girls’ names in the US begin with this letter. Only the first letters A and S are more common for girls' names.
With eight letters, the name Michaela is long compared to other names. In fact, 14.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly eight letters. 78% of all first names are shorter, while only 8% of all boys’ and girls’ names use nine letters or even more. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long with no significant differences between boys' and girls' names.
Therefore: As 8.5% of all girls' names start with an M, this initial letter occurs nearly 2.5-times as often as all 26 letters on average – and the most common one of all the girls’ names starting with M is Mary.
If your name is Michaela and someone asks after your name, you can of course just tell them what it is. But sometimes that isn't so easy - what if it's too loud, and you don't understand them well? Or what if the other person is so far away that you can see them but not hear them? In these situations, you can communicate your name in so many other ways: you call spell it, sign it, or even use a flag to wave it...
So that everyone really understands you when you have to spell the name Michaela, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Cat
Hat
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Michaela
Michaela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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C
H
A
E
L
A
In the navy, sailors of two ships might wave flags to each other to send messages. A sailor holds two flags in specific positions to represent different letters.
M
I
C
H
A
E
L
A
In Morse code, letters and other characters are represented only by a series of short and long tones. For example, a short tone followed by a long tone stands for the letter A. Michaela sounds like this:
