Mika

given name · Finnish · Latin script

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

Mika is a given name, with more bearers in Finland than in any other country, where it is the 73rd most common given name. It appears chiefly in Finnish and Japanese, written in the Latin script. Recorded meaning: from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Hungarian Miklos, Czech and Slovak Mikulds, Pohsh Mikolaj.

rarermore common
  • FIFinland1 in 155◐
  • SESweden1 in 3.2K
  • USUnited States1 in 47K

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

≈48K ●

across 11 countries

Sources
196 ●

19K records

Reference-verified

1 in 155 ◐

Finland

Meaning & origin●

from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Hungarian Miklos, Czech and Slovak Mikulds, Pohsh Mikolaj. '

Sources 1

  • Dictionary of American Family Names

Attested across 25 languages in the etymology graph.

Where in the world●

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

Where Mika is recorded, by country
CountryMost common spellingSources
FI Finland#7335,897△9.6K rec.1 in 15540KMika133
US United States—7,0524.6K rec.1 in 47K7.1KMika196
SE Sweden#7403,168△770 rec.1 in 3.2K3.2KMika59
KE Kenya—854144 rec.——Mika14
NL Netherlands—565294 rec.—3.8KMika34
PL Poland—434—1 in 88K5.1K——
NO Norway—386△76 rec.1 in 14K1.2K—19
TZ Tanzania—377403 rec.——Mika13
PH Philippines—363147 rec.——Mika29
EE Estonia#897322110 rec.—listedMika17
HR Croatia—295—1 in 14K295——
DK Denmark—273—1 in 22K273——

Roughly 36K people in Finland bear this name (about 1 in 155). Estimates project the name's share of our records onto national population, so each is only as good as the record base beside it — the Basis column gives that base; rows marked △ rest on fewer records than the estimate itself and are order-of-magnitude at best.

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

Languages●

  • Finnish176K43%
  • Japanese81K20%
  • English45K11%
  • French17K4%
  • German13K3%
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Languages in which the name is recorded
NameRecordsNote
Finnish176,15543%
Japanese81,01720%
English45,39011%
French17,2764%
German12,8693%

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◐

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

  • English given name107K records spelled Mika25 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in United States, Netherlands, Germany, Finland

    Languages: English, German, Western Frisian

    Also written Mikae, Miká, Mïka, Míkà, Mįkå

  • Japanese given name89K records spelled Mika2 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Japan, United States, Philippines, Spain

    Also written Mi-Ka

  • Polish given name52K records spelled Mika14 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Poland, Czechia, Finland, United States

    Languages: Polish, Czech, Slovak

    Also written Míka, Mikaִ, Miִka, Mïķã, Míkå

  • French given name21K records spelled Mika23 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in France, Finland, United States, Belgium

    Also written Mikà, Míkā, Mi-Ka, Mika', Mìka

  • Indonesian given name5.8K records spelled Mika4 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, United States

    Languages: Indonesian, Malay

    Also written 'Mika, Míka

  • Croatian given name5.7K records spelled Mika53 spellings in the group

    Most recorded in Croatia, Finland, Russia, United States

    Languages: Croatian, Russian, Bulgarian

    Also written Мика, Mica, Micah, Mića, Miča

68 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●

Mika 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 Japanese, Rōmaji transcription of みか

    as a wordkaikki.org Wiktionary extract (IPA + transliterations)

  • name of many men (P); Kala (N)

    as a nameSunama Sarit (Hindi) Ten Thousand Sanskrit Names

  • In German, Aus slawischen Formen des Rufnamens Nikolaus; Diminutiv/Hypokoristikum. Bearer count: 902.

    as a nameDeutscher Familiennamenatlas, Band 3: Morphologie der Familiennamen

  • In ki, Kikuyu (Kenya): African name

    as a nameAfrican Names

  • In English, Japanese; the new moon

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

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●

01002003001960198020002020203 · 2017

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Mika in SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present), United States, 1954–2025
Yearrecords
19548
19556
19565
19576
19585
19598
196011
196110
196213
19637
196410
19658
196616
196723
196823
196929
197045
197153
197246
197346
197452
197565
197670
197744
197876
197973
198047
198182
198252
198354
198475
198572
198675
198778
198872
198991
199083
1991112
1992121
199390
1994106
1995115
1996125
1997145
1998118
1999147
2000130
2001121
2002118
2003121
2004125
2005148
2006159
2007166
2008176
2009148
2010182
2011185
2012183
2013169
2014180
2015201
2016183
2017203
2018175
2019175
2020158
2021139
2022166
2023161
2024139
2025127

US SSA — National Baby Names (1880–present) — 72 years between 1954–2025. One register's own figures, never a sum across registers: two registers counting the same people would double them.

Notable people with this name●

1900195020002050Mika Waltari, b. 1908Mika Kanai, b. 1964Mika Salo, b. 1966Mika Brzezinski, b. 1967Mika Häkkinen, b. 1968Mika Tan, b. 1977Mika Sugimoto, b. 1984Mika Boorem, b. 1987Mika Abdalla, b. 2000Mika Godts, b. 2005

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 98 sources across 45 countries.

Official registers attesting Mika
CountryRegisterYearCountRank
FI FinlandDVV — Nimipalvelu (Finnish name service, per-name lookup)—40K#99
FI FinlandDVV — Etunimitilasto (Finnish given names register)—36K—
US United StatesCensus Bureau — First Name Frequency 2020 by sex20207.1K#2,774
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265.1K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5.1K#379
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (surnames)20265K—
PL Polanddane.gov.pl — PESEL living persons (names)—5K#381
NL NetherlandsMeertens NVB — Nederlandse Voornamenbank (live per-name BRP counts, 1790-2017)—3.8K#891
SE SwedenSkatteverket — Sök hur många som har ett visst namn (living population)—3.2K#802
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 201020102.5K#12,627
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 200020002.4K#11,893
US United StatesCensus Bureau — Surname Frequency 202020202.3K#12,990

Reference works 6

  • Dictionary of American Family Names
  • Nederlandse FamilienamenBank (Dutch surname bank; ex-Meertens Instituut, now CBG)2007
  • Lietuvių kalbos institutas — Lietuvių pavardžių žodynas (Lithuanian surname dictionary)
  • Wikipedia given-name tokens
  • Wikipedia surname 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 · 966 rows in the corpus for this spelling.

Frequently asked questions

How common is the name Mika?
We estimate roughly 48 thousand people bear Mika (counting its spellings and scripts) across 11 countries in our records.
In which country does Mika have the most bearers?
We estimate about 36 thousand people bear Mika in Finland, more than in any other country in our records, where it is most often spelled mika.
Where is Mika most common?
Mika is densest in Finland, where the national register counts about 1 in 155 people carrying it.
How common is Mika compared with other names?
In Finland, Mika is the 73rd most common given name of 51,554 given names recorded there.
Is Mika a male or female name?
Mika 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 Mika mean?
Recorded meaning: from a pet form of a central and eastern European personal name equivalent to Nicholas: Hungarian Miklos, Czech and Slovak Mikulds, Pohsh Mikolaj.
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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, “Mika” — the 73rd most common given name in Finland. Data snapshot 2026-09-12.

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