Mikala
Mikala is a name with a single cultural origin: Hawaiian.
- Hawaiian
Meaning & Origin of Mikala
What this name means, where it came from, and how it has traveled across cultures.
Mikala is a name with a single cultural origin: Hawaiian.
Origin data from Behind the Name .
Cultural Origins (via Behind the Name)
- Hawaiian
The Story of Mikala
Mikala first appeared in U.S. Social Security Administration records as a baby girl name in 1967, with 6 babies given the name that year. The name hit its high-water mark in 1995: 324 births, good for #659 nationwide. About 52% of every Mikala on record arrived during the 1990s, its defining decade. Mikala last appeared in the published SSA data in 2023, with 5 recorded births — it has not charted nationally since. All told, over 4K Americans have carried the name since 1880, from the 1960s to the 2020s.
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About the name Mikala
Mikala is a girl baby name tracked by the U.S. Social Security Administration. It first appeared in SSA records in 1967 and has accumulated 4K births in the dataset. Mikala's peak popularity came in 1995 when it ranked #659. Use the chart and map above to compare Mikala's trajectory across years and U.S. states, or browse the related names section to discover similar choices.
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Data sources
- Birth statistics (counts, ranks, years 1880–2026) — U.S. Social Security Administration . Predictions for years not yet released by SSA are computed by Peek a Name from historical trends; we update with official data as soon as it ships.
- Etymology, cultural origins, and related forms — Behind the Name (used under their public API terms).
- Meaning prose and editorial summary — Wikipedia article extracts, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 .
- Predicted nationality distribution — Nationalize.io .
- Phonetically similar names — Datamuse .
Peek a Name aggregates and presents the above data for informational purposes. Statistical predictions and external attributions are clearly labelled where shown; we make no guarantee of accuracy beyond what each source provides.