Mika
Mika is a girl's name that peaked in 2017, when it was the 1,198th most popular in the United States. It is given to both boys and girls. In 2025 it ranked 1,631st. About 7,900 Mikas are alive in the United States today, and half of them are over 19.
Popularity, 1880–2025
girls named Mika boys named Mika
Girls and boys called Mika
years more girls than boys years more boys than girls
Both, throughout, without either side ever taking it over: 6,752 girls and 1,362 boys in all, and in 2025 the split was 127 to 34.
The girls’ share of each year’s babies of the name, in the 59 years in which at least 25 babies got it. The line touches the middle more often than there are crossings marked: a year or two on the other side is not a name changing hands, and only a move that holds for 5 counted years and reaches 60/40 is recorded as one. All 581 names that changed sex.
By the numbers
- Total US births
- 8,114
- Estimated living today
- 7,900
- Median age today
- 19
- Peak year
- 2017
- Best rank
- 1,198th
- Rank in 2025
- 1,631st
- First recorded
- 1954
- Girls / boys
- 6,752 / 1,362
How old the living Mikas are
born that year still alive today
Of the 8,114 babies given the name since 1954, about 7,900 are alive — 98 in every hundred. Roughly 3,700 of them are children and 50 are 65 or over. The dotted line is the median: half were born before 2006 and half after.
An estimate, not a count. SSA births aged forward through SSA cohort life tables, which know nothing about who left the country or arrived in it — so for a name that mostly came to America rather than being born in it, this is a floor rather than a figure. Where you fall among living Americans.
Where the name comes from
Borrowed from Japanese みか.
Etymology from Wiktionary, used under CC BY-SA 4.0.
Notable Mikas
- Mika Häkkinen (born 1968)Finnish racing driver
- Mika Waltari (1908–1979)Finnish writer
- Mika (born 1983)British-Lebanese musician, singer and songwriter
- Mika Salo (born 1966)Finnish racing driver
- Mika Newton (born 1986)Ukrainian singer
- Mika Nakashima (born 1983)Japanese singer and actress
- Mika Väyrynen (born 1981)Finnish footballer
- Mika Myllylä (1969–2011)Finnish cross-country skier
People named Mika with articles in the most Wikipedia languages. Data from Wikidata (CC0).
Where Mika is most common
Relative to how many babies each state records, Mika is most concentrated in Hawaii (10.4×), California (3.7×), Washington (2.8×), Florida (1.7×).
Total births recorded in each state since 1910. Browse names by state.
Names of 2017
The most popular girls’ names the year Mika peaked:
Mika elsewhere
| Country | Spelling | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Switzerland boys | Mika | 1,049 | 156th |
| France boys | Mika | 765 | 744th |
| England and Wales girls | Mika | 613 | 487th |
| Belgium boys | Mika | 454 | 316th |
| Norway boys | Mika | 327 | 239th |
| England and Wales boys | Mika | 311 | 1,179th |
| Poland girls | Mika | 196 birth registrations | 245th |
| France girls | Mika | 95 | 3,233rd |
| Switzerland girls | Mika | 74 | 765th |
| Scotland girls | Mika | 11 | 633rd |
| Belgium girls | Mika | 5 | 1,448th |
| Scotland boys | Mika | 3 | 648th |
| Poland boys | Mika | 2 birth registrations | 732nd |
Counts come from each country's own records and are not comparable with the US figures above, which cover different years and a different definition of a recorded name. Where a country writes the name several ways, the spellings are added together and the most common is shown. A row marked name registrations is counting something else: Portugal ranks each of a child's two given names separately, so a girl registered Maria Leonor is in both the Maria row and the Leonor row, and that figure is not a number of children.
Mika: births by region
| Region | Country | Spelling | Births | Share of the region | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| German boys | Switzerland | Mika | 987 | 0.079% | 114th |
| German girls | Switzerland | Mika | 67 | 0.005% | 603rd |
| French boys | Switzerland | Mika | 57 | 0.013% | 293rd |
| French girls | Switzerland | Mika | 6 | 0.001% | 759th |
| Italian boys | Switzerland | Mika | 3 | 0.005% | 117th |
| Italian girls | Switzerland | Mika | 1 | 0.002% | 192nd |
| Romansh boys | Switzerland | Mika | 2 | 0.054% | 12th |
Parts of a country counted above, not extra births. The share is what makes the regions comparable: they differ in size by a factor of three hundred.
By canton, Mika is most concentrated in Basel-Landschaft, where 0.13% of children were given it – 68 of them.
Mika: rank by region
In 2025, Mika was given 5 times or more in 1 region of Belgium.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Flanders | Mika | 914 | 5 |
In 2025, Mika was given 2 times or more in 1 region of Poland.
| Region | Spelling | Place | Children |
|---|---|---|---|
| Mazowieckie | Mika | 276 | 3 |
In 2018, with the country taken in 11 areas rather than 3, Mika appears in the lists for Province of Liège (204th).
Each of these is the top of a list the statistics office cut off somewhere – Belgium below 5 children, Poland below 2 children – and published nothing after. So a region missing here is one where the name fell outside what was published, not one where it went unused. Places are shared where names tie, and the further down a list a place is, the more names can share it.
Mika by city
| City | Years | Births | Best rank |
|---|---|---|---|
| Berlin boys | 2017–2023 | 519 | 39th |
| Berlin girls | 2017–2023 | 60 | 215th |
One city over a few years, so these are much smaller numbers than the national ones above and not comparable with them.
Mika among the living
How many people each country's register counts under the name, rather than how many were given it in any one year. Each register was read on one date, and they are not the same date.
| Country | Spelling | First forename | Any forename |
|---|---|---|---|
| Finland boys | Mika | 32,931 | 35,838 |
| the Netherlands boys | Mika | 3,753 | 4,318 |
| the Netherlands girls | Mika | 212 | 254 |
| Finland girls | Mika | 21 | 29 |
A count of people on a register – Finland on 4 August 2026, the Netherlands on 1 January 2018 – and not of births, so it cannot be compared with the figures above. Names with very few bearers are withheld, and a dash in the first-forename column means the register would not say rather than that nobody goes by it.
Related names
Mika against another name
Two names on one chart, with the year one overtook the other.
Try it on yourself
Source: US Social Security Administration, national and state baby-name files, 1880–2025. Counts include only births registered with the SSA, and names with fewer than five births in a year are not published. The living estimate applies SSA cohort life tables to those births; it counts people born in the United States, so it misses anyone who arrived later and anyone who has left.