Mika

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in Japanese: Rōmaji transcription of みか

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

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

Mika is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 25th most common given name.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 155(measured from records)
  • SESweden1 in 3.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 40K

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.

Finland (measured from records)

35,897 people

Sources
222 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 155 (inferred from the name graph)

Finland

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Meaning & origin(measured from records)

from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Hungarian Miklos, Czech and Slovak Mikulds, Pohsh Mikolaj. '

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 22 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mika is read(measured from records)

Mika is one spelling over 4 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.

  • Japanese35%

    Rōmaji transcription of みか

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • English19%

    Japanese; the new moon

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • Finnish9.7%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mika in Finnish.

  • French6.8%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mika in French.

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 We do not publish a gender of our own per language: our records carry one figure for the spelling as a whole.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)

Mika 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 Mika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#2535,8971 in 15540KMika153
US United States—8,4131 in 40K7.1KMika222
TZ Tanzania—≈5,500 est.≈1 in 11K—Mika14
FR France—≈4,300 est.≈1 in 16K730—2
NG Nigeria—≈3,500 est.≈1 in 62K—Mika15
SE Sweden#7113,1681 in 3.2K3.2KMika67
NL Netherlands—≈1,900 est.≈1 in 9K3.8KMika31
EE Estonia#398≈230 est.≈1 in 5.5KlistedMika17

35,897 people counted by DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register). 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: DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; Meertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024); the ee-siseministeerium-registry register. 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)

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

  • English given name25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Finland, Australia

    Languages: English, German, Dutch

    Also written Mikae, Miká, Mïka, Mikä, Mikà

  • Japanese given name2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Canada, Philippines

    Also written Mi-Ka

  • Czech given name14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Czechia, Finland, Poland, United States

    Languages: Czech, Polish, Slovak

    Also written Míka, Mïķã, Miִka, Mikaִ, Mikã

  • French given name23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States, Belgium

    Also written Mikà, Míkā, Mi-Ka, Mika', Mìka

  • Indonesian given name4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mika, Míka

  • Russian given name53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Russia, Finland, Kazakhstan

    Languages: Russian, Croatian, Bulgarian

    Also written Мика, Mica, Micah, Mića, Мића

68 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)

Mika is also recorded in 4 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Hungarian Miklos, Czech and Slovak Mikulds, Pohsh Mikolaj. '

    as a nameDictionary of American Family Names

  • name of many men (P); Kala (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In German, Aus slawischen Formen des Rufnamens Nikolaus; Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum. Bearer count: 902.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In ki, Kikuyu (Kenya): African name

    as a nameAfrican Names

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)

1900195020002050Mika Waltari, b. 1908Mika Kanai, b. 1964Mika Salo, b. 1966Mika Brzezinski, b. 1967Mika Häkkinen, b. 1968Mika Tan, b. 1977Mika Sugimoto, b. 1984Mika Boorem, b. 1987Mika Abdalla, b. 2000Mika Godts, b. 2005

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)

Informalこんにちは、MikaさんHi Mika, (English)

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 102 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Mika
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40K#50
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—36K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.1K#2,774
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.8K#891
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.2K#802
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20201.4K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20201.4K#2,774
FR FranceINSEE — Fichier des prénoms (1900–2024)2023730#1,414
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—212#5,281
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025127—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—83#3,357
EE EstoniaSiseministeerium — population register name list 20232023——

Reference works 8

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

Is Mika a male or female name?
Mika is a male 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.
How do you pronounce Mika?
A machine transcription gives /ˈmikə/ (IPA) for Japanese.
Where does the name Mika come from?
from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Hungarian Miklos, Czech and Slovak Mikulds, Pohsh Mikolaj. ' Recorded by Dictionary of American Family Names.
What are other forms of the name Mika?
In the etymology graph, Mike, Mickey and Mick are forms of the same name in other languages; it is recorded as a short form of Mikael.
In which country does Mika have the most bearers?
In Finland, the national register counted about 36 thousand people named Mika, more than in any other country we hold, where it is most often spelled mika.
Where is Mika most common?
Mika is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
What does the name Mika mean?
In Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of みか
How common is the name Mika?
In Finland, the national register counted 35,897 people named Mika, about 1 in 155 residents.
How common is Mika compared with other names?
In Finland, Mika is the 25th most common given name of 19,056 given names recorded there.

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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, “Mika” — the 25th most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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