Mikaela

given name · Latin script

Meaning, in English: A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela

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

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

Mikaela is a given name written in the Latin script, with more bearers in Czechia than in any other country.

rarermore common
  • UYUruguay1 in 388as Micaela(measured from records)
  • USUnited States1 in 6.9Kas Michaela
  • BRBrazil1 in 11Kas Micaela

carrying the name, as counted by each country's national register. Where a country counts another spelling of the name rather than Mikaela 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 named Michaela

3 (measured from records)

recorded for this name

Sources
159 (measured from records)

Highest-authority source

1 in 758 (inferred from the name graph)

Sweden

measured from records inferred from the name graph

Name dossier (print, CSV)

Spellings & scripts(measured from records)

MikaelaLatin(measured from records)
ΜικαέλαGreek(measured from records)
미카엘라Hangul(measured from records)

2 other spellings are counted as the same name:

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)

A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.

Sources 1

  • kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

Attested across 14 languages in the etymology graph.

How Mikaela is read(measured from records)

Mikaela 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.

  • English44%

    A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela.

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

  • Spanish23%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mikaela in Spanish.

  • Swedish8.7%

    Mikaela (m.fl. former) är femininformer till → Mikael. I både den rikssvenska och finlandssvenska almanackan 29 september.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • Portuguese8.2%

    No dictionary in our sources glosses Mikaela in Portuguese.

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.

Often considered alongside

Names that people choosing a name often weigh against Mikaela, 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)

Mikaela 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 Mikaela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
CZ Czechia—157,646as Michaela1 in 68158K——
US United States—48,489as Michaela1 in 6.9K48KMikaela159
BR Brazil—19,882as Micaela1 in 11K20KMikaela85
SE Sweden—13,4571 in 75813KMikaela30
UY Uruguay#1478,720as Micaela1 in 3888.7KMikaela34
FI Finland—6,6461 in 8386.9KMikaela6
EC Ecuador—5,190as Micaela1 in 3.3K5.2KMikaela25

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; Census Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex; IBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror); Skatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population); INE Uruguay — Nombres más frecuentes 1902–2024 (Tableau Public); DVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register); DVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup); INEC — civil registry names. 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)

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

  • English given name19 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Sweden, Australia, Philippines

    Languages: English, Swedish, German

    Also written Mikaëla, Mikaéla, Mikäëlä, Mikáela, Mîķāêlâ

  • Finnish given name8 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Sweden, United States, Philippines, Finland

    Languages: Finnish, Estonian, Hungarian

    Also written Mikaéla, Mîkäëlä, Mikäelä, Mïkaëlä, Mikaëla

  • French given name9 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, United States, Philippines, Sweden

    Also written Mikaëla, Mikaéla, Mikaêla, Mikaélà, Mîkâëlä

  • Bulgarian given name18 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Bulgaria, United States, Spain, Poland

    Languages: Bulgarian, Polish, Croatian

    Also written Micaela, Микаела, Mikaëla

  • a separate name2 spellings in the group

    Also written Mikaëla

  • Italian given name177 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Italy, Czechia, Croatia, United States

    Languages: Italian, Czech, Croatian

    Also written Michela, Michaela, Mihaela, מיכאלה, Михаела

43 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)

Mikaela 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.

  • In German, weibl. Vom., schwedische Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Latvian, Sievietes vārds

    as a wordTēzaurs.lv (Dictionary and Thesaurus of Latvian, AiLab / LU MII)

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)

1940196019802000Mikaela Engell, b. 1956Mikee Cojuangco-Jaworski, b. 1974Maria Ylipää, b. 1981Mikaela Hoover, b. 1984Noonie Bao, b. 1987Mikaela Åhlin-Kottulinsky, b. 1992Mikaela Ardai Jennefors, b. 1993Mikaela Shiffrin, b. 1995King Princess, b. 1998Mikey Madison, b. 1999

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 Mikaela,

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 82 sources across 44 countries.

Official registers attesting Mikaela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202018K#1,729
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—13K#319
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)202210K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—10K#1,654
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20207K—
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—6.9K#277
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—6.6K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—6.1K#2,939
EC EcuadorINEC — civil registry names20242.1K#588
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)20201.1K—
US United StatesSSA — National Baby Names (1880–present)2025241—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—66#1,654

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 Mikaela?
In the etymology graph, Michelle, Michele and Micaela are forms of the same name in other languages.
What does the name Mikaela mean, and where does it come from?
A female given name from Hebrew, of modern usage, variant of Michaela. Recorded by kaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations).
How do you pronounce Mikaela?
A machine transcription gives /miˈkeɪɫə/ (IPA) for English.
Is Mikaela a male or female name?
Mikaela 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 Mikaela 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 is Mikaela most common?
Measured as a share of residents rather than as a count, Mikaela is densest in Sweden — about 1 in 758 people — even though Czechia holds more of our records for it.
How common is the name Mikaela?
In Sweden, the national register counted 13,457 people named Mikaela, about 1 in 758 residents.
How common is Mikaela compared with other names?
In Uruguay, Mikaela is the 147th most common given name of 12,212 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, “Mikaela” — the 147th most common given name in Uruguay. Data snapshot 2026-10-10.

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