Mica

femaleStatistical record

What official birth registration shows about Mica: which national registrars published it, in which years, and how its recorded position changed.

No researched meaning, origin or pronunciation yet — what that means.

Mica: Recorded since 1996, its highest recorded position is #396, and it stood at #5,891 in 2024.

1registrar recorded it
25times a registrar ranked it
29years from first to last
#396highest recorded position
5groupings it qualifies for

Region

Falling

among girls in England and Wales · 1996–2024

View as table

England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1996	#448
1997	#604
1998	#396
1999	#449
2000	#607
2001	#918
2002	#1151
2003	#1176
2004	#1459
2005	#1200
2006	#1502
2007	#1234
2008	#1641
2009	#2326
2010	#3533
2011	#2432
2015	#4736
2016	#5785
2017	#4763
2018	#3985
2020	#3899
2023	#4056
2024	#5891

VerifiedSource: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales.Confidence: high.

See all England and Wales names · Source: Office for National Statistics — Baby Names in England and Wales

What the data shows

FallingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among girls in England and Wales in 23 of the 29 years from 1996 to 2024.

Official data for England and Wales, 1996–2024 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1996
First recorded at #448 among girls in England and Wales in 1996 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
England and Wales · Girls
Highest recorded1996–2024
Highest recorded position: #396 among girls in England and Wales, in 1998 (recorded 1996–2024).
England and Wales · Girls
Most recent2024
Most recently recorded at #5891 among girls in England and Wales, in 2024.
England and Wales · Girls

Mica appears in 2 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is England and Wales · Girls, which has ranked it in 23 years beginning in 1996, and has registered 501 births with the name.

Mica across 2 official records

Each registrar publishes its own list, so these figures are read down a row, never across one. A position in one country is not comparable with a position in another, and Namewise never combines them into a single ranking. The birth counts do not compare across rows either, for a different reason: England and Wales registers roughly thirty times as many births a year as Northern Ireland, so a larger total says which registrar recorded it as much as how widely the name was given.

Mica's first, highest and most recent recorded position in each official list, with the number of births each registrar registered with the name and its largest single year
Published list	First recorded	Highest	Most recent	Years recorded	Births registered	Most in one year
England and Wales · Girls	#448 (1996)	#396 (1998)	#5891 (2024)	23 of 29	501 (1996–2024)	79 (1998)
England and Wales · Boys	#3848 (2020)	#3848 (2020)	#4001 (2022)	2 of 3	8 (2020–2022)	4 (2020)

Mica by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Births registered with the name in each decade of this one list, with the number of years the list covers in that decade. Bars are scaled on births a year, which is the figure that compares between decades — a decade the list only partly covers has a smaller total without being a quieter decade. Figures belong to this registrar alone and do not carry to another.

Births registered with Mica in England and Wales · Girls, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1990s	253	4 of 10	63
2000sbusiest	203	10 of 10	20
2010s	32	6 of 10	5
2020s	13	3 of 10	4

Across England and Wales · Girls, the 2000s were its busiest decade, averaging 20 births a year.

Its sharpest single-year move came between 1997 and 1998, when recorded births rose by 37, from 42 to 79.

See the names England and Waleshas recorded the most births with →

Mica appears in

Groupings this name qualifies for under their own stated rules, from the same official statistics shown above.

Popularity data

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #396 in England and Wales in 1998.

Mica's recorded popularity observations by year, region and administrative category, including rank, registered births, source confidence and when each region's data was last reviewed.
Year	Region	Category	Rank	Births registered	Confidence	Status
2024	England and Wales	female	#5891	3	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#4056	5	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#4001	4	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#3899	5	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#3848	4	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#3985	5	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#4763	4	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#5785	3	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#4736	4	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#2432	10	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#3533	6	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#2326	10	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#1641	16	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#1234	22	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1502	16	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1200	20	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1176	19	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#1151	18	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#918	24	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#607	43	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#449	66	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#396	79	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	female	#604	42	High	Verified
1996	England and Wales	female	#448	66	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics

See methodology and data sources for how popularity data is collected and what "confidence" means.

What the record shows

Recorded by 1 registrar between 1996 and 2024, ranked in 24 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #396, first reached in 1998.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 79 births, registered in England and Wales in 1998.

Its record falls into 4 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 3 years.

Every figure here is counted from the seven official registrars Namewise holds. A position is only ever a place within the list that published it, and a record that thins or stops is a fact about what registrars printed — never about how many children received the name.

4decades with a ranked yearRecorded in 4 decades →
16 yearslongest unbroken run of ranked years10 to 19 unbroken years →
4separate stretches the record falls into4 separate stretches →
3 yearslongest absence inside the recorded period2 to 3 years missing →
#5,891position in 2024, its most recent recorded year
79births registered in its largest year, 199850 to 99 births →

Where to go next

Records with a comparable body of evidence, so the catalogue can be read outward from this one. Each group states the rule it was selected by.

Next in the catalogue

The records either side of this one alphabetically.

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Micaela · #417, 30y
Micah · #43, 30y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 1 registrar, over a similar number of ranked years, whose highest position is closest to this one. A similar body of evidence — never a claim that the names themselves are alike.

Eilen · #396, 27y
Aneesa · #397, 29y
Eilin · #395, 24y
Cavan · #398, 28y

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1990 and 1999.

Evie-Rose · #396, 22y
Aneesa · #397, 29y
Bennett · #395, 22y
Fae · #397, 30y

Mica was ranked #396 in England and Wales · Girls in 1998. These are the names immediately either side of it on that published list — a fact about the registrar's own output, not a similarity judgement.

Mica and the names beside it

Two names in the same published list are measured on the same scale, in the same year, by the same registrar — so these are positions that genuinely passed each other, not a similarity judgement. Drawn from the 2,573 names with a recorded popularity standing (common, familiar, uncommon), so a name outside that set could have passed Mica without appearing here.

Moved ahead of Mica

Lorraine Compare
In 2023 they stood at #4056 and #5687 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2024 that had become #5891 and #2115.
Malin Compare
In 2015 they stood at #2432 and #4764 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2016 that had become #5785 and #2120.
Blake Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2432 and #2893 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #1240.
Ezra Compare
In 2014 they stood at #2432 and #3185 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2015 that had become #4736 and #1279.

Moved the opposite way to Mica

Ada Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 while Ada went from #2683 to #40.
Alma Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 while Alma went from #2096 to #234.
Alyssa Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 while Alyssa went from #783 to #285.
Amalie Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 while Amalie went from #2096 to #1128.

Moved the same way as Mica

Abigail Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 and Abigail from #21 to #154.
Aimee Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 and Aimee from #70 to #1603.
Aisling Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 and Aisling from #440 to #2000.
Alex Compare
Between 1996 and 2024 in England and Wales · Girls, Mica went from #448 to #5891 and Alex from #161 to #2253.

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Absence from this list does not mean the name isn't genuinely meaningful or widely used — only that Namewise hasn't sourced and reviewed that content yet. Absence from a specific year or geography above does not prove zero use there either; official statistics only publish names above a minimum threshold.

Recorded in official data for England and Wales from 1996 to 2024. Highest recorded position: #396 in England and Wales in 1998. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mica

Mica at a glance

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mica across 2 official records

Mica by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mica appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

Where to go next

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A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mica

Mica and the names beside it

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Mica at a glance

Mica across 2 official records

Mica by decade in England and Wales · Girls

Mica appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1990s

Names published alongside Mica

Mica and the names beside it

Moved ahead of Mica

Moved the opposite way to Mica

Moved the same way as Mica