The name Mikaela is a feminine form of Michael, a name of Hebrew origin: Mikha’el means ‘who is like God?’. The spelling variant Mikaela is the Swedish and Finnish form, [Michaela] is Greek, German, and English.
Mikaela is a female first name.
The name Mikaela 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, Mikaela ranks 607. Recently, out of every 10,000 newborn girls, approximately 3 were named Mikaela. In the entire USA, approximately 17,823 people – children, adults and seniors – currently bear the name Mikaela. That is 0.01 % of all living Americans.
The name Mikaela is a feminine form of Michael, a name of Hebrew origin: Mikha’el means ‘who is like God?’. The spelling variant Mikaela is the Swedish and Finnish form, [Michaela] is Greek, German, and English.
Mikaela is known... in the US since the 1980s and is used significantly less frequently than Michaela.
Mikaela is a phenomenon of Generation X and Y. Previously, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Schoolkids of the early 20th century probably didn't have classmates named Mikaela - until this very name unexpectedly cried out for attention and peaked in popularity at rank number 260 in 1997. Although it has never reached the top 100 list, this girls' name seems to have been in vogue for a while, which makes Mikaela really in tune with her generation.
In years where the graph has no value, the name Mikaela was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
424 babies were named Mikaela in 2022 - that's 1 in 349,604 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Mikaela ranked 622 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
Everyone knows her, everyone loves her and still she’s different from the mainstream: Mikaela occurs in every single state of the U.S. This may sound quite unspectacular at first, but in fact, of the more than 50,000 different female first names that occur in the USA, just 537 are recorded in each individual state, so the name Mikaela is definitely something very special. However, at the same time, since the name does not appear in the top 100 most common first names in any single state, Mikaela is not one of those names that one encounters in every neighbourhood, but stands out from the crowd, is noticeable and special without being strange or unknown. From Alaska to Florida, a total of 17,823 women and girls of all generations bear the name Mikaela – that is one in 8,650. However, there are considerable regional differences – the name is far more popular than average in Arizona, where one in 3,151 women and girls is called Mikaela, while it is particularly rare in Mississippi, where you have to ask an average of 64,168 women for their name to get Mikaela as an answer once.
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 seven letters, the name Mikaela has a typical length for first names in the US. In fact, 26% of all common first names consist of exactly seven letters. 52% of all first names are shorter, while 22% have eight letters or more. 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 Mikaela 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 Mikaela, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Koala
Apple
Elephant
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mikaela
Mikaela
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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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.
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K
A
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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. Mikaela sounds like this:
