How popular is “Mika” in the USA?

Number of people named “Mika” by birth year

This chart shows how many people named “Mika” were born each year.

Due to changes to population growth and data collection rates over time, this isn't a good chart for understanding popularity.

Popularity of “Mika” by birth year

This chart shows how the popularity of “Mika” has changed over time.

Popularity is the number of people named “Mika” born in that year divided by the total number of births for that year.

Bias in sex for “Mika” by birth year

This chart shows how “Mika” has been used as gendered name over time. The scale ranges from 1 (only females) to -1 (only males).

Sex is a required field in SSA's Social Security Card applications (only 2 options). Most applications are filed around a person's time of birth.

The raw data

This table shows the data used in the above charts.

Year	Count	Proportion	Females	Males	Bias toward female
1954	8	0.00000201	8		100%
1955	6	0.000001494	6		100%
1956	5	0.000001213	5		100%
1957	6	0.000001428	6		100%
1958	5	0.00000121	5		100%
1959	8	0.000001924	8		100%
1960	18	0.000004333	7	11	-22%
1961	10	0.000002414	10		100%
1962	18	0.000004461	13	5	44%
1963	12	0.000003032	7	5	17%
1964	10	0.000002572	10		100%
1965	16	0.000004413	8	8	0%
1966	22	0.00000633	16	6	45%
1967	28	0.000008248	23	5	64%
1968	30	0.00000888	23	7	53%
1969	39	0.000011222	29	10	49%
1970	45	0.000012477	45		100%
1971	58	0.000016898	53	5	83%
1972	52	0.000016545	46	6	77%
1973	56	0.000018562	46	10	64%
1974	68	0.000022368	52	16	53%
1975	74	0.000024508	65	9	76%
1976	81	0.000026695	70	11	73%
1977	52	0.00001637	44	8	69%
1978	88	0.000027726	76	12	73%
1979	81	0.000024346	73	8	80%
1980	55	0.000015967	47	8	71%
1981	90	0.000026016	82	8	82%
1982	63	0.000017959	52	11	65%
1983	64	0.000018479	54	10	69%
1984	82	0.000023504	75	7	83%
1985	82	0.000022975	72	10	76%
1986	84	0.000023615	75	9	79%
1987	91	0.000025238	78	13	71%
1988	84	0.000022733	72	12	71%
1989	105	0.000027312	91	14	73%
1990	103	0.00002606	83	20	61%
1991	129	0.000033117	112	17	74%
1992	129	0.000033583	121	8	88%
1993	108	0.000028645	90	18	67%
1994	119	0.000032009	106	13	78%
1995	132	0.000036044	115	17	74%
1996	142	0.000038934	125	17	76%
1997	164	0.000045232	145	19	77%
1998	146	0.000039693	118	28	62%
1999	167	0.00004521	147	20	76%
2000	163	0.000043123	130	33	60%
2001	141	0.000037666	121	20	72%
2002	156	0.00004173	118	38	51%
2003	137	0.000036031	121	16	77%
2004	163	0.00004266	125	38	53%
2005	172	0.000044735	148	24	72%
2006	198	0.000050048	159	39	61%
2007	205	0.00005128	166	39	62%
2008	215	0.000054698	176	39	64%
2009	192	0.000050259	148	44	54%
2010	205	0.000055469	182	23	78%
2011	228	0.000062333	185	43	62%
2012	218	0.000059606	183	35	68%
2013	200	0.00005486	169	31	69%
2014	214	0.000057738	180	34	68%
2015	244	0.00006593	201	43	65%
2016	231	0.000062965	183	48	58%
2017	237	0.000066272	203	34	71%
2018	205	0.000058307	175	30	71%
2019	225	0.000064824	175	50	56%
2020	186	0.000055679	158	28	70%
2021	176	0.000051949	138	38	57%
2022	212	0.000062664	166	46	57%
2023	208	0.000062817	159	49	53%
2024	182	0.000054679	138	44	52%

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