Michaela

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: feminine of Michael; "who is like God?" (heb)

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

/mɪkeɪlə/(machine-generated) pronunciation, model-generated

Michaela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country, where it is the 37th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • CZCzechia1 in 68(measured from records)
  • SKSlovakia≈1 in 557
  • USUnited States1 in 6.9K

carrying the name, as counted by its national register where one exists and as Mondonomo estimates it elsewhere (marked ≈ and "est." on hover). Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Michaela itself, the figure is that spelling’s, and it is named. One hue, darker where it is more common; hover a country for its figure.

Czechia (measured from records)

157,646 people

6 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
214 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 68 (inferred from the name graph)

Czechia

measured from records inferred from the name graph

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Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MichelaLatin(measured from records)
מיכאלהHebrew(measured from records)
МихаелаCyrillic(measured from records)
ΜιχαελαGreek(measured from records)
มีเชThai(measured from records)
ՄիքայելաArmenian(measured from records)

5 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michela in IT Italy, US United States and Mihaela in MD Moldova.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records, and ○ marks a model's transliteration; click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

Feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 12 languages in the etymology graph.

How Michaela is read(measured from records)

Michaela is one spelling over 2 language communities, and the dictionaries record it differently in 2 of them. Each row is what a source recorded for that language, beside the share of this name’s records the language holds. No single row is the name’s meaning.

  • English42%

    feminine of Michael; "who is like God?" (heb)

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    feminine form of Michael; who is like God

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  • German37%

    ) Michaele: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

The share is ours — how much of this name’s records each language holds. The sense beside it is the source’s, quoted and credited, including where it names a gender. We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.

Where in the world(measured from records)

Michaela 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.

Where Michaela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia#37157,6461 in 68158KMichaela153
IT Italy#129≈87,000 est.≈1 in 717219Michela214
US United States—48,4891 in 6.9K48KMichela203
AT Austria—≈26,000 est.≈1 in 3408.3K—3
BR Brazil—19,882as Micaela1 in 11K20K—2
MD Moldova#35715,457as Mihaela1 in 21815KMihaela19
SK Slovakia#76≈9,800 est.≈1 in 557—Michaela137
UY Uruguay—8,720as Micaela1 in 3888.7K—1

157,646 people counted by MVČR — living population register 2017. 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: MVČR — living population register 2017; ISTAT — Contanomi newborn per-name series (1999–2024, JSONP backend); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); e-services.md — living population register; INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); Statistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024). 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 names spelled this way(inferred from the name graph)

Michaela is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • English given name38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, United Kingdom, Austria

    Languages: English, German, Swedish

    Also written Michaëla, Michael-A, Micha-Ela, Micháela, Michae'La

  • Spanish given name16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, France, Brazil

    Languages: Spanish, French, Portuguese

    Also written Michaëla, Michaéla, Miçhaela, Michàela, Michaèla

  • a separate name4 spellings in the group

    Also written Michaëla, Michaéla, Michael-A

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, Malaysia

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Micháela, Miçhaela

  • Swahili given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho, Kinyarwanda

    Also written Michaëla

  • Spanish given name48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Philippines, Uruguay

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, Italian

    Also written Mikaela, Micaela, Μικαέλα, Μικαελα, 미카엘라

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses(measured from records)

Michaela is also recorded in 3 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In French, Feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

  • In Swedish, Se Mikaela.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Forme féminine de Michaël/Michel, d’origine hébraïque, signifie « comme Dieu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

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)

1940196019802000Michaela von Habsburg, b. 1954Michaela Watkins, b. 1971Michaela Dorfmeister, b. 1973Michaela Conlin, b. 1978Michaela McManus, b. 1983Anna von Hausswolff, b. 1986Michaela Coel, b. 1987Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, b. 1991Michaela Dicker, b. 1994Michaela Polleres, b. 1997

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)

InformalHi Michaela,

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 88 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Michaela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—158K#30
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—79K#35
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202048K#925
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20248.3K#678
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.6K#6,874
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#6,501
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025323—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex2020143#925
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)202090—
MD Moldovae-services.md — living population register—35#1,565
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — Vornamen der Geborenen (1984–present)20246#749

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • 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 Michaela?
In the etymology graph, Michelle, Michele and Kayla are forms of the same name in other languages; Michi is a recorded short or pet form.
How do you pronounce Michaela?
A machine transcription gives /mɪkeɪlə/ (IPA) for English.
Where does the name Michaela come from?
Feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el Recorded by Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education).
How common is the name Michaela?
In Czechia, the national register counted 157,646 people named Michaela, about 1 in 68 residents.
How common is Michaela compared with other names?
In Czechia, Michaela is the 37th most common given name of 16,679 given names recorded there.
What does the name Michaela mean?
In English, feminine of Michael; "who is like God?" (heb)
Is Michaela a male or female name?
Michaela 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.
In which country does Michaela have the most bearers?
In Czechia, the national register counted about 158 thousand people named Michaela, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled michaela.
Where is Michaela most common?
Michaela is densest in Czechia, where the national register counts about 1 in 68 people carrying it.

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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, “Michaela” — the 37th most common given name in Czechia. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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