Micaela
given name · Latin script
Meaning: Forma femenina de Miguel; hebreo mi-ka-El '¿quién como Dios?'
Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise
/mikaela/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated
Micaela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Argentina than in any other country. In Uruguay it is the 32nd most common given name.
- UYUruguay1 in 388(measured from records)
- ARArgentina≈1 in 512
- PYParaguay≈1 in 1.3K
carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.
- Argentina (inferred from the name graph)
- Sources
- 305 (measured from records)
- 1 in 388 (inferred from the name graph)
≈89,000 people, est.
Highest-authority source
Uruguay
measured from records inferred from the name graph
Meaning & origin(measured from records)
Forma femenina de Miguel; hebreo mi-ka-El '¿quién como Dios?'
Sources 1
- Diccionario etimológico de nombres propios
Attested across 18 languages in the etymology graph.
Often considered alongside
Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Micaela, most often first. They share a style rather than an origin.
From the names suggested together in public name-advice forums, in English. A list of what people consider, not a measure of how common any name is.
Where in the world(measured from records)
Micaela counted together with the spellings and other-language forms grouped with it. Where a register counted another spelling, the row names it.
Sorted by bearers: national registers' counts, and Mondonomo's estimates (≈, est.) where no register counts.
| Country | Most common spelling | Sources | ||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| AR Argentina | #127 | ≈89,000 est. | ≈1 in 512 | 368 | Micaela | 142 |
| BR Brazil | — | 19,882 | 1 in 11K | 20K | Micaela | 114 |
| US United States | — | 18,047 | 1 in 18K | 18K | Micaela | 305 |
| IT Italy | — | ≈10,000 est. | ≈1 in 6.1K | 49 | Micaela | 73 |
| UY Uruguay | #32 | 8,720 | 1 in 388 | 8.7K | Micaela | 64 |
| PY Paraguay | #135 | ≈5,600 est. | ≈1 in 1.3K | — | Micaela | 34 |
| EC Ecuador | #459 | 5,190 | 1 in 3.3K | 5.2K | Micaela | 50 |
| PT Portugal | #238 | ≈3,900 est. | ≈1 in 2.6K | listed | Micaela | 79 |
Exact figures are national registers' own counts, while figures marked ≈ and est. are Mondonomo’s estimates, counted from our sources and calibrated against those registers; hover one for how far to trust it in that country. A dash means neither exists.
Registers cited: RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); INEC — civil registry names; the pt-irn-lista-nomes register; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend). Figures without a register are Mondonomo estimates; see Methodology.
Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table (how that works).
Other recorded senses(measured from records)
Micaela is also recorded in 2 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.
Milrari, Milrarie, Milrary, Miracle, La que es como Dios
as a name25,000 nombres de bebé. La mejor guía para escoger el nombre adecuado
In German, weibl. Vom., spanische Form von
as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen
Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.
Notable people with this name(measured from records)
- Queen Maria Isabel of Spainb. 1797ESnot in their usual nameQueen consort of Spain (1797-1818)
- Maria II of Portugalb. 1819BRnot in their usual nameQueen of Portugal (r. 1826–1828; 1834–1853)
- Princess Francisca of Brazilb. 1824BRnot in their usual namePrincess of Brazil (1824-1898)
- Infanta Maria Ana of Portugalb. 1843PTnot in their usual namePortuguese and Saxon Royal
- Infanta Antónia of Portugalb. 1845PTnot in their usual namePortuguese Royal
- Infanta Maria Theresa of Portugalb. 1855ATnot in their usual nameAustrian and Portuguese royal (1855–1944)
- Infanta Maria José, Duchess in Bavariab. 1857PTnot in their usual namePortuguese and Bavarian Royal (1857–1943)
- Infanta Marie Anne of Portugalb. 1861NLnot in their usual nameGrand Duchess consort and regent of Luxembourg (1861-1942)
- Infanta Maria Antonia of Portugalb. 1862PTnot in their usual nameTitular Duchess of Parma (1862–1959)
- Micaela Ramazzottib. 1979ITItalian actress
The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).
How to address them(machine-generated)
A formal English salutation is built on the surname, so it needs a full name — on its own, a first name only supports the informal form.
Evidence(measured from records)
Attested in 68 sources across 36 countries.
| Country | Register | Year | Count | Rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| BR Brazil | IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror) | 2022 | 20K | — |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | — | 20K | #1,073 |
| US United States | Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex | 2020 | 18K | #1,713 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Nomes (census name API) | — | 14K | #1,730 |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 8.7K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 8.1K | — |
| EC Ecuador | INEC — civil registry names | 2024 | 5.2K | #343 |
| BR Brazil | IBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname) | 2020 | 2.3K | — |
| UY Uruguay | INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public) | — | 550 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — Nombres de nacimientos (2012–present) | 2024 | 368 | #343 |
| AR Argentina | datos.gob.ar — nombres.datos.gob.ar per-name lookup (1922–2015) | 2015 | 300 | — |
| AR Argentina | RENAPER — births 1922–2015 (Kaggle mirror) | 2015 | 300 | — |
Reference works 3
- Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
- Wikipedia given-name tokens
- Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)
These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.
Register rows as of the 2026-10-09 data build.
Frequently asked questions
- What are other forms of the name Micaela?
- In the etymology graph, Michelle, Michele and Michaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
- How do you pronounce Micaela?
- A machine transcription gives /mikaela/ (IPA) for Spanish.
- Is Micaela a male or female name?
- Micaela is a female name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
- What does the name Micaela mean?
- Recorded meaning: Forma femenina de Miguel; hebreo mi-ka-El '¿quién como Dios?'
- In which country does Micaela have the most bearers?
- Mondonomo estimates about 89 thousand people named Micaela in Argentina, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled micaela.
- Where is Micaela most common?
- Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Micaela is densest in Uruguay — about 1 in 388 people — even though Argentina holds more of our records for it.
- How common is the name Micaela?
- In Brazil, the national register counted 19,882 people named Micaela in 2022, about 1 in 11 thousand residents.
- How common is Micaela compared with other names?
- In Argentina, Micaela is the 127th most common given name of 119,825 given names recorded there.
What do you want to know about Micaela?
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Query this name via API
curl -H "X-API-Key: YOUR_KEY" https://api.mondonomo.ai/api/v1/name-graph/micaelaThe payload this page is built from: spellings and scripts, countries and languages, related names, and the registers that attest the form. It takes a free API key (1,000 requests a day), which returns what this page shows everyone; the full country table, every register citation and the year-by-year series come with a licensed key, as does bulk access.
About this data
measured from records inferred from the name graph machine-generated
These figures come from the data snapshot of and will change as it is rebuilt.
Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.
Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.
Cite this page Mondonomo, “Micaela” — the 127th most common given name in Argentina. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.