Mikaila is a first name for girls.
… it’s a special occasion. That’s because the name Mikaila is quite rare in the US. While it’s still a name in use, lately, only approximately 2 out of 100,000 girls have been named Mikaila. In the SmartGenius ranking, Mikaila is #4,746 on the list of most common girls names. If you polled the whole US population – children, adults and seniors – you’d find less than one in 10,000 to be named Mikaila.
Mikaila is a fairly recent phenomenon. In the past, the name wasn't really on the radar of expectant parents. Then, unexpectedly, Mikaila cried out for attention, reaching its peak in popularity at #880 in our SmartGenius statistics in the year 2001. People over 50 probably didn't have classmates named Mikaila, 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, Mikaila 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 Mikaila was given less than five times or even none at all in the entire USA.
7 babies were named Mikaila in 2022 - that's 1 in 21,175,986 newborn girls. With this number, the girls' name Mikaila ranked 10,613 in our SmartGenius first name statistics in 2022, the most recent year for which records are available.
The odds of living in the same state as someone with the first name Mikaila are about the same as betting on heads or tails in a coin toss. This girl’s name is quite popular, but not equally so throughout the entire USA. You can meet girls and women with the name Mikaila in 24 states – that is about every second of all 50 states in the USA, for example in Arizona, California, Colorado, Connecticut or Florida. In relation to the number of residents, the most women and girls with the first name Mikaila live in Washington – here, one in 44,559 bears this beautiful name. In comparison, if we look at all living women and girls in the whole country, only one in 157,479 will turn around if you call her first name Mikaila.
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 Mikaila 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 Mikaila 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 Mikaila, you can simply say:
Mouse
Igloo
Koala
Apple
Igloo
Lion
Apple
Braille is made up of dots, which the blind and visually impaired can feel to read words.
Mikaila
Mikaila
Just use American Sign Language!
These flags are used for maritime communication - each flag represents a letter.
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I
K
A
I
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
K
A
I
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. Mikaila sounds like this:
