Mikaya
A girls’ name with no widely documented etymology — three syllables, given to 5 babies a year in the US.
Mikaya by the numbers
Mikaya was given to 5 American babies in 2017, the most recent full year we hold.
Its American peak was 34 babies in 2003, so it is a 2000s name that has since fallen a long way.
What we can tell you about Mikaya
Not every name has a meaning to trace. Plenty are coined rather than inherited — invented outright, blended from two names, or respelled from an older one — and where we cannot find an etymology we can stand behind, we would rather say so than make one up. What follows comes from the birth records themselves.
Spelled almost the same
Other names in the records within a letter or two of Mikaya. Close spellings are not always related names, but they are usually worth seeing together.
Sounds like Mikaya
Names that are said the same way as Mikaya, however they are written. Sounding alike does not mean they share a history.
- Micaiahwho is like God23 in England and Wales (2025)
- Mihikamist; fog; dewdrop5 in England and Wales (2025)
- Miekawho is like god; a form of michaela7 in the US (2017)
- Mikaiahwho is like god; variant of micaiah7 in the US (2017)
- Mikiahwho is like god; modern respelling of michael7 in the US (2017)
- Mikyah8 in the US (2017)
Names about as common as Mikaya
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