Baby name
FADING
🇬🇧 🇺🇸 🇦🇺 Mikayla
/mih · KAY · lah/
Meaning
“Who is like God”
American phonetic spelling of Michaela, from Hebrew meaning who is like God; the alternate spelling became popular in the US in the 1990s.
Nicknames
kayla · mika
Vibe
strongwarm
How it ages.
Very 1990s-2000s American; the creative spelling dates it to that era's naming aesthetic.
The cultural moment.
Peak use in the US and Australia in the 1990s-2000s; fading from current top lists.