Michaela

given name · Czech · Latin script

Recorded as a female name· opposite-gender records fall within measured source noise

Michaela is a given name, most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is the 21st most common given name. It appears chiefly in Czech and German, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el.

rarermore common
  • CUCuba1 in 12◐
  • CZCzechia1 in 43
  • FIFinland1 in 52

carrying the name, one hue, darker where it is more common. Hover a country for its figure.

≈6.3M ●

across 12 countries

#9 ●

of 16M given names

10 ●

recorded for this name

Sources
656 ●

65M records

Official registry-verified

1 in 43 ◐

Czechia

Spellings & scripts●

MichaelLatin · English●45M records
МихаилCyrillic · Russian●13M records
מיכאלHebrew · Hebrew●444K records
ᲛიხეილGeorgian · Georgian●55K records
ไมเคิลThai · Thai●3.1K records
ΜιχαήλGreek · Greek●155 records
মাইকেলBengali · Bangla●143 records
미카엘Hangul · Korean●27 records
ՄիխայիլArmenian · Armenian●6 records
ମାଇକେଲOdia · Odia●0 records

10 other spellings are counted as the same name:

Locally spelled Michael in US United States, GB United Kingdom, DE Germany and 15 more, Михаил in RU Russia, KZ Kazakhstan, TR Türkiye, Mikael in FI Finland, SE Sweden and Михайло in UA Ukraine.

Spellings marked ● are how people bearing the name write it in our records; ○ marks a model's transliteration. Click a spelling to open its page.

Meaning & origin●

Feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el

Sources 1

  • Le grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Attested across 17 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

Sorted by bearers counted by national registers, records where none counts.

Where Michaela is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
RU Russia#2113,284,4114.2M rec.—#8Михаил244
UA Ukraine#234,587,4624.6M rec.—listedМихайло117
US United States#33,469,43443M rec.1 in 963.5MMichael656
GB United Kingdom#42,842,1172.4M rec.—626Michael373
DE Germany#31,639,8761.5M rec.—6Michael363
AU Australia#21,532,8441.1M rec.—121Michael379
CU Cuba#61,016,44718K rec.——Michael36
CA Canada#2934,497863K rec.—58Michael323
FR France#17820,6151.1M rec.1 in 83821KMickael416
PH Philippines#6816,562582K rec.—listedMichael220
BR Brazil#363715,241△123K rec.1 in 296715KMichael208
PL Poland#9492,326△208K rec.1 in 78492KMichał254

Country figures for a list of names, at full precision, are available under licence rather than by scraping this table. How that works.

Languages●

  • Czech735K52%
  • German264K19%
  • English252K18%
  • 30K2%
  • Spanish26K2%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Czech735,23952%
German263,65019%
English251,91818%
30,1052%
Spanish26,0382%

Language is read off each record's context, not declared by the bearer; a share is of all records for this spelling.

Other names spelled this way◐

Michaela is also recorded as 6 other names, grouped separately because the records behind them do not connect to the one described above.

  • German given name584K records spelled Michaela38 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Germany, Austria, United Kingdom

    Languages: German, English, Swedish

    Also written Michaëla, Michael-A, Michaéla, Micha-Ela, Michaèla

  • Spanish given name70K records spelled Michaela16 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, United States, Philippines, France

    Languages: Spanish, Portuguese, French

    Also written Michaëla, Michaéla, Miçhaela, Michaèla, Michàela

  • a separate given name35K records spelled Michaela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland, Canada

    Also written Michael-A, Michaéla, Michaëla

  • Indonesian given name2.6K records spelled Michaela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Philippines, United States, United Kingdom

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written Micháela, Miçhaela

  • Swahili given name2.0K records spelled Michaela4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Philippines, United Kingdom, South Africa

    Languages: Swahili, Southern Sotho

    Also written Michaëla

  • Portuguese given name374 records spelled Michaela48 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Brazil, Argentina, Uruguay, Philippines

    Languages: Portuguese, Spanish, Korean

    Also written Mikaela, Micaela, Μικαέλα, 미카엘라, Mïkaela

69 further groups record this spelling and are not listed here.

Grouping is the name graph's, not a register's: two spellings join a group when the evidence links them, so a group is a claim about the records rather than about the people.

Other recorded senses●

Michaela is also recorded in 5 other lexicons, as a different name or as an ordinary word. These are senses of the spelling, not of the name above.

  • In English, feminine of Michael; "who is like God?" (heb)

    as a nameBaby names, 25,350 baby names nicknames for your family, friends pets, including the top 100 names, 2,000 most popular…

  • In English, feminine form of Michael; who is like God

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  • In German, ) Michaele: weibl. Vom., weibliche Form von

    as a nameDUDEN Lexikon der Vornamen

  • In Swedish, Se Mikaela.

    as a nameFörnamn i Sverige. Kortfattat namnlexikon

  • In French, Forme féminine de Michaël/Michel, d’origine hébraïque, signifie « comme Dieu ».

    as a nameLe grand guide des prénoms (Enfant - Education)

Ordered by how much of this spelling's record each language holds, so a sense from a language the name is barely used in sits last rather than first.

Over time●

01K2K3K4K194019601980200020203.4K · 1997

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Michaela in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1921–2025
Yearrecords
19215
19235
19277
19337
19356
193712
193814
193919
194013
194117
194228
194323
194424
194527
194637
194730
194836
194938
195037
195160
195275
195362
195475
195574
195676
195769
195858
195954
196053
196172
196266
196384
196495
1965106
1966101
1967114
1968101
1969139
1970128
1971127
1972117
1973111
1974128
1975120
1976156
1977170
1978173
1979225
1980267
1981243
1982285
1983293
1984333
1985508
1986519
1987535
1988633
1989998
1990878
1991783
1992960
19931,853
19943,044
19953,083
19963,176
19973,398
19983,341
19992,657
20002,172
20011,827
20021,615
20031,380
20041,167
20051,153
20061,003
2007971
2008922
2009876
2010814
2011778
2012726
2013744
2014663
2015647
2016674
2017608
2018591
2019492
2020449
2021523
2022516
2023459
2024379
2025323

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 94 years between 1921–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1940196019802000Michaela von Habsburg, b. 1954Michaela Watkins, b. 1971Michaela Dorfmeister, b. 1973Michaela Conlin, b. 1978Michaela McManus, b. 1983Anna von Hausswolff, b. 1986Michaela Coel, b. 1987Michaela Jaé Rodriguez, b. 1991Michaela Dicker, b. 1994Michaela Polleres, b. 1997

The ten people covered by the most Wikipedia language editions — a proxy for cross-cultural notability, which favours historical and Western figures over equally prominent contemporary ones — shown by birth year. Source: Wikidata (CC0).

Evidence●

Attested in 85 sources across 43 countries.

Official registers attesting Michaela
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
CZ CzechiaMVČR — living population register 2017—158K#30
CZ Czechianaše jména — 2016 MVČR snapshot—79K#35
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex202048K#925
AT AustriaStatistik Austria — STATatlas Vornamen WFS (per-name time series 1984–2024)20248.3K#678
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—6.5K#527
SE SwedenSCB — Namnstatistik (to 2023)20203.9K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Nomes (census name API)—1.6K#6,874
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—1.5K#1,290
BR BrazilIBGE — names by decade (Kaggle mirror)20221.4K—
BR BrazilIBGE — Censo 2022 Nomes no Brasil per-token lookup (v3 API, given+surname)—1.4K#6,501
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—1.1K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—943#506

Reference works 4

  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Nişanyan Adlar (Turkish given-name national-registry frequency)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikidata name items (native-script + romanized given/family names)

These works list the name; their figures are licensed and are not reproduced here.

Register rows as of the 2026-09-12 data build · 896 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Michaela?
We estimate roughly 6.3 million people bear Michaela (counting its spellings and scripts) across 12 countries in our records.
In which country does Michaela have the most bearers?
Michaela is most frequently recorded in Russia, where it is most often spelled михаил.
How common is Michaela compared with other names?
In Russia, Michaela is the 21st most common given name of 418,751 given names recorded there.
Is Michaela a male or female name?
Michaela is a male name in our records. Opposite-gender entries fall within the cross-gender noise we measure in the source data, so we don't report them as usage.
What does the name Michaela mean?
Recorded meaning: Feminine form of Michael, from Hebrew Mikha'el
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About this data

● measured from records◐ inferred from the name graph○ machine-generated

Data snapshot . Figures are rebuilt periodically and will change.

Statistics are aggregated from the Mondonomo name corpus; related names and etymology are inferred from the name graph; pronunciation and any machine-marked transliterations are model-generated. Read how the numbers are made, including their known failure modes, and where the data comes from.

Reference works we consult — surname dictionaries, official name registers, Wikidata and Wiktionary — are named directly, beside the claims they support. The per-country source counts also include datasets of person records: we publish how many there are and their authority tier, but not their names.

Cite this page Mondonomo, “Michaela” — the 21st most common given name in Russia. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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