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Girl's nameOrigin: of mixed originIn Israel: falling

MikaIn Hebrew: מיקה · meaning, pronunciation and popularity in Israel

With vowel points: מִיקָהRomanization: miká

Mika (Hebrew: מיקה) is a girl's name of mixed origin. 8,844 people born in Israel between 1949 and 2024 have it today, according to Israel's Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS). In 2024 it was given to 236 girls and ranked #85. Its peak year was 2008, with 463 babies.

People in Israel
8,844
born 1949–2024
Babies in 2024
236
rank #85
Peak year
2008
463 babies
USA, 2025
127
rank #1,631

Writing and saying Mika

In Hebrew letters the name is מיקה, read right to left. Mika is the Latin spelling recorded by our review; families choose their own spelling in passports, so you may also meet other forms. Wiktionary romanizes it as "miká" (the accent marks the stressed syllable).

Meaning and origin

  • a female given name, Mika

Quoted from English Wiktionary (CC BY-SA 4.0), unchanged.

Mika by year: Israel and abroad

How many girls out of every 10,000 born each year have the name. For Israel it counts the people born that year who carry the name today (the CBS counts residents by year of birth, not birth registrations).

Mika: rate per 10,000, 1950–2025

per 10,000 babies of the same sex

Mika in English-speaking countries

Mika in each official list: latest year, count, rank and peak
Country / regionYearBabiesRankPeak
United States2025127#1,6312017 (203)
United Kingdom202512#2,3452008 (80)
England and Wales202512#2,2772008 (80)
Alberta20258#5522010 (11)
Quebec20256#6682007 (15)

Counts for girls. The Hebrew page for Mika has every year and the other spellings.

Related Israeli names

Spelling variants and names that look or sound close in Hebrew.

Questions about Mika

How do you write Mika in Hebrew?

Mika is written מיקה in Hebrew (with vowel points: מִיקָה). Hebrew is read right to left. A dictionary romanization is "miká".

How many people in Israel are named Mika?

8,844 people born between 1949 and 2024 carry the name מיקה: 8,833 women and 11 men. The count comes from the CBS table of current first names by year of birth; years with fewer than 5 people are not published.

Is Mika a boy's or a girl's name?

In Israel it is almost always a girl's name: 99.9% of the people named מיקה are women.

What does the name Mika mean?

English Wiktionary describes it as: "a female given name, Mika"

Is Mika used outside Israel?

The name Mika appears in the official baby name lists of English-speaking countries. In the United States 127 girls were given it in 2025 (#1,631), per the Social Security Administration. In the UK 12 in 2025 (ONS, NRS and NISRA combined).

Sources

Israel: Central Bureau of Statistics (CBS), current first names of people born 1949–2024 by sex, population group and year of birth, processed 2026-09-27. CBS publications.

Abroad

Counts are copied as published. We only merged accented spellings (Zoë = Zoe) and computed ranks and rates. Contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Contains information licensed under the Open Government Licence – British Columbia and the Open Government Licence – Alberta.