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Unnamed BabySSA national name archive · 1880–2025

Michaela

Recorded for both sexesGen Z

2025 rank

#843

down −101 places

2025 births

323

down −56 births

All-time births

53,633

1% of them in 2025

More common than

99%

of all archived spellings recorded for girls, by lifetime births for that sex
Peak year
1997
3,398 births
Best rank
#100
in 1997
First recorded
1921
#5,645 that year
Last recorded
2025
still in the data
Average birth year
1998
weighted by recorded births
Years recorded
94 of 146
with gaps

Top five years

  1. 19973,398#100Peak
  2. 19983,341#103
  3. 19963,176#102
  4. 19953,083#107
  5. 19943,044#109

Rank over time

Inverted scale — nearer the top is more popular. Unrecorded years are left blank, not drawn as zero.

Best rank #100 in 1997 · peak births 3,398 in 1997

Boys and girls

Births per year for each sex, on one shared scale. The girls' series is dashed.

● 0% boys■ 100% girls

69 boys · 53,633 girls, all time

Births by decade

Where the name's whole run sits, with the best and worst rank it held in each decade

Trajectory by decade

Where Michaela has ranked, decade by decade

The band spans each decade's best and worst rank; the line follows its best.