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Mykala vs Mykia

American parents have registered 1,291 Mykalas since 1880, against 927 Mykias. Neither name reached five babies in 2025.

Babies given each name, 1880–2025

Births per year: Mykala against Mykia, 1880 to 2025 0 30 60 90 120 1880 1900 1920 1940 1960 1980 2000 2020

Mykala Mykia

Each line is every baby given the name that year, girls and boys added together — the only count that means the same thing for both names. A line breaks where the name fell below five babies in a year — the point at which the SSA stops publishing it — rather than being drawn through a figure nobody published. A single published year in a gap shows as a dot.

Who was ahead

Of the 42 years in which either name was published, Mykia for 21 years and Mykala for 21 years. The lead changed hands 4 times.

Side by side

  Mykala Mykia
Total US births 1,291927
Most in one year 10657
Babies in 2025 under 5under 5
Estimated living today 1,300910
Median age today 2526
Peak year 20002002
Best rank 1,659th girls2,673rd girls
Rank in 2025 unrankedunranked
First recorded 19841976
Girls / boys 1,291 / 0927 / 0

A rank is a position within one sex’s list for one year, so the two rank rows are not subtracted from one another and the winning column is not marked on them. The living figure is a life-table estimate, not a count.

Where each one is strongest

How much commoner the name is in that state than it is nationally, from births recorded since 1910.

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Social Security Administration birth records, 1880–2025, public domain. Full histories: Mykala and Mykia.