Mika is a first name for girls, occasionally also given to boys.
Mika is a well-known name in the US, but is still special. It is currently only given to every ten thousandth girl, and therefore ranks at 1,218 in the SmartGenius statistics. This means there are 1,217 girls names that are more common, but also tens of thousands that are much rarer. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mika.
Mika is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Mika cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #989 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2017. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Mika, for there were many years in which not a single parent chose this first name for their daughter. Although it also has never been in the top 100 of most popular first names, Mika seems to have been in vogue for a while, especially since the beginning of the new millennium.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mika was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
207 babies were named Mika in 2022 - that's 1 in 915,012 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Mika ranked 1,053 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
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 four letters, the name Mika is shorter than most other given names. In fact, only 5.5% of all common first names in the US consist of exactly four letters. Just 1.2% of all first names are even shorter, while 93% consist of more than four letters. On average, first names in the US (not counting hyphenated names) are 6.5 letters long. There are 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 Mika 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 Mika, you can simply say:
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Igloo
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Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mika
Mika
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
M
I
K
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
K
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. Mika sounds like this:
