Mika

Used for both boys and girlsStatistical record

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

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

Mika: Recorded since 1967, with a gap of 25 years, its highest recorded position is #238, reached in 2025.

2registrars recorded it
87times a registrar ranked it
59years from first to last
#238highest recorded position
15groupings it qualifies for

What stands out in Mika's record

Absent from every published list for 25 years inside its own recorded period, then ranked again. Names by longest absence

Region

Rising

among girls in England and Wales · 1998–2024

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England and Wales · Girls rank by year
Year	Rank
1998	#2701
1999	#1557
2000	#2746
2001	#2023
2002	#2105
2003	#1996
2004	#1459
2005	#1796
2006	#1386
2007	#565
2008	#487
2009	#1105
2010	#1040
2011	#1196
2012	#1649
2013	#2062
2014	#1456
2015	#1324
2016	#1172
2017	#1144
2018	#1314
2019	#1389
2020	#1556
2021	#1454
2022	#1556
2023	#1410
2024	#1894

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

RisingEngland and Wales · Girls

Recorded in official data among boys in Norway in 32 of the 59 years from 1967 to 2025.

In 2024: #267 among boys in Norway, #1951 among boys in England and Wales.

Official data from 2 national registrars across 2 regions, 1967–2025 · Office for National Statistics. Data sources

Popularity journey

First recorded1967
First recorded at #374 among boys in Norway in 1967 — the earliest year that source publishes this name, not necessarily the earliest it was used.
Norway · Boys
Highest recorded1967–2025
Highest recorded position: #238 among boys in Norway, in 2025 (recorded 1967–2025).
Norway · Boys
Most recent2025
Most recently recorded at #238 among boys in Norway, in 2025.
Norway · Boys

Mika appears in 3 of the published lists Namewise holds. The longest record is Norway · Boys, which has ranked it in 32 years beginning in 1967, and has registered 327 births with the name.

Mika across 3 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.

Mika'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
Norway · Boys	#374 (1967)	#238 (2025)	#238 (2025)	32 of 59	327 (1967–2025)	21 (2011)
England and Wales · Boys	#1761 (1997)	#1179 (2022)	#1951 (2024)	28 of 28	299 (1997–2024)	23 (2022)
England and Wales · Girls	#2701 (1998)	#487 (2008)	#1894 (2024)	27 of 27	601 (1998–2024)	80 (2008)

Mika by decade in Norway · Boys

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 Mika in Norway · Boys, by decade, with years covered and the average per year
Decade	Births registered	Years covered	A year
1960s	14	2 of 10	7
1970s	8	2 of 10	4
1990s	18	2 of 10	9
2000s	89	10 of 10	9
2010s	121	10 of 10	12
2020sbusiest	77	6 of 10	13

Across Norway · Boys, the 2020s were its busiest decade — the 6 years of it this list covers, averaging 13 births a year.

See the names Norwayhas recorded the most births with →

Mika appears in

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

Popularity data

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #238 in Norway in 2025.

Mika'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	#1894	15	High	Verified
2024	England and Wales	male	#1951	12	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	female	#1410	22	High	Verified
2023	England and Wales	male	#1799	13	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2022	England and Wales	male	#1179	23	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	female	#1454	21	High	Verified
2021	England and Wales	male	#1595	15	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	female	#1556	19	High	Verified
2020	England and Wales	male	#1230	21	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	female	#1389	22	High	Verified
2019	England and Wales	male	#1655	14	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	female	#1314	25	High	Verified
2018	England and Wales	male	#1991	11	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	female	#1144	30	High	Verified
2017	England and Wales	male	#2512	8	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	female	#1172	29	High	Verified
2016	England and Wales	male	#2027	11	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	female	#1324	25	High	Verified
2015	England and Wales	male	#2150	10	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	female	#1456	21	High	Verified
2014	England and Wales	male	#1630	14	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	female	#2062	13	High	Verified
2013	England and Wales	male	#1617	14	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	female	#1649	18	High	Verified
2012	England and Wales	male	#1430	17	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	female	#1196	27	High	Verified
2011	England and Wales	male	#1688	13	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	female	#1040	32	High	Verified
2010	England and Wales	male	#1483	16	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	female	#1105	28	High	Verified
2009	England and Wales	male	#2318	8	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	female	#487	80	High	Verified
2008	England and Wales	male	#2507	7	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	female	#565	64	High	Verified
2007	England and Wales	male	#2023	9	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	female	#1386	18	High	Verified
2006	England and Wales	male	#2087	8	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	female	#1796	12	High	Verified
2005	England and Wales	male	#2418	6	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	female	#1459	15	High	Verified
2004	England and Wales	male	#2578	5	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	female	#1996	9	High	Verified
2003	England and Wales	male	#2470	5	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	female	#2105	8	High	Verified
2002	England and Wales	male	#3225	3	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	female	#2023	8	High	Verified
2001	England and Wales	male	#1467	9	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	female	#2746	5	High	Verified
2000	England and Wales	male	#1552	8	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	female	#1557	11	High	Verified
1999	England and Wales	male	#1505	8	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	female	#2701	5	High	Verified
1998	England and Wales	male	#2074	5	High	Verified
1997	England and Wales	male	#1761	6	High	Verified
2025	Norway	male	#238	18	High	Verified
2024	Norway	male	#267	16	High	Verified
2023	Norway	male	#281	15	High	Verified
2022	Norway	male	#317	11	High	Verified
2021	Norway	male	#378	7	High	Verified
2020	Norway	male	#326	10	High	Verified
2019	Norway	male	#262	17	High	Verified
2018	Norway	male	#428	7	High	Verified
2017	Norway	male	#321	13	High	Verified
2016	Norway	male	#413	8	High	Verified
2015	Norway	male	#326	13	High	Verified
2014	Norway	male	#390	9	High	Verified
2013	Norway	male	#397	9	High	Verified
2012	Norway	male	#349	11	High	Verified
2011	Norway	male	#243	21	High	Verified
2010	Norway	male	#325	13	High	Verified
2009	Norway	male	#464	7	High	Verified
2008	Norway	male	#326	13	High	Verified
2007	Norway	male	#290	15	High	Verified
2006	Norway	male	#469	6	High	Verified
2005	Norway	male	#396	8	High	Verified
2004	Norway	male	#358	9	High	Verified
2003	Norway	male	#298	13	High	Verified
2002	Norway	male	#414	7	High	Verified
2001	Norway	male	#512	5	High	Verified
2000	Norway	male	#469	6	High	Verified
1999	Norway	male	#319	12	High	Verified
1998	Norway	male	#478	6	High	Verified
1971	Norway	male	#598	4	High	Verified
1970	Norway	male	#583	4	High	Verified
1969	Norway	male	#531	5	High	Verified
1967	Norway	male	#374	9	High	Verified

England and Wales hub — collected by Office for National Statistics
Norway hub — collected by Statistics Norway (SSB)

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

What the record shows

Recorded by 2 registrars between 1967 and 2025, ranked in 33 years of that period.

Its highest recorded position is #238, first reached in 2025.

Its largest count from any one registrar is 80 births, registered in England and Wales in 2008.

1 registrar publishes it in more than one category list, holding a place in each for at least five years — an observation about those lists rather than about the name.

Its record falls into 3 separate stretches, with a longest absence of 25 years.

A second registrar first ranked it in 1997, and 30 years separate the first registrar to record it from the last.

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.

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.

Mihran · #1294, 16y
Mija · #752, 18y
Mika'il · #1448, 20y
Mikaeel · #416, 25y

A comparable record

Records held by the same 2 registrars, 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.

Clair · #237, 37y
Serine · #237, 37y
Ayomide · #236, 29y
Emlyn · #240, 34y

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Records whose earliest ranking in Namewise's registrar data also falls between 1960 and 1969.

Bridie · #238, 50y
Catharina · #238, 50y
Lucinda · #238, 56y
Susannah · #238, 39y

Mika was ranked #238 in Norway · Boys in 2025. 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.

Mika 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 Mika without appearing here.

Mika moved ahead of

Belinda Compare
In 2013 they stood at #2062 and #2062 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2014 that had become #1456 and #4684.
Brooke Compare
In 2009 they stood at #2318 and #2318 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2010 that had become #1483 and #4678.
Graham Compare
In 2023 they stood at #1799 and #1533 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2024 that had become #1951 and #5119.
Brittany Compare
In 2005 they stood at #1796 and #1500 in England and Wales · Girls; by 2006 that had become #1386 and #3548.

Moved ahead of Mika

Arlo Compare
In 2001 they stood at #1467 and #1949 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2002 that had become #3225 and #848.
Kasper Compare
In 2003 they stood at #2470 and #2857 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2004 that had become #2578 and #1347.
Cillian Compare
In 2004 they stood at #2578 and #3009 in England and Wales · Boys; by 2005 that had become #2418 and #1190.
Ollie Compare
In 1997 they stood at #1761 and #2022 in England and Wales · Boys; by 1998 that had become #2074 and #924.

Moved the opposite way to Mika

Josefine Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mika went from #2701 to #1410 while Josefine went from #3848 to #5687.
Kristin Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mika went from #2701 to #1410 while Kristin went from #1122 to #5687.
Therese Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mika went from #2701 to #1410 while Therese went from #2165 to #4709.
Tracey Compare
Between 1998 and 2023 in England and Wales · Girls, Mika went from #2701 to #1410 while Tracey went from #1319 to #5687.

Moved the same way as Mika

Benjamin Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mika went from #531 to #238 and Benjamin from #464 to #48.
Colin Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mika went from #531 to #238 and Colin from #557 to #119.
Filip Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mika went from #531 to #238 and Filip from #561 to #27.
Isak Compare
Between 1969 and 2025 in Norway · Boys, Mika went from #531 to #238 and Isak from #412 to #6.

What's not yet available

Meaning
Origin
Pronunciation
Nicknames and spelling variants

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.

Official popularity data is available for 2 regions, from 1967 to 2025. Highest recorded position: #238 in Norway in 2025. Source data last verified 2026-07-21.

Mika

Mika at a glance

What stands out in Mika's record

What the data shows

Popularity journey

Mika across 3 official records

Mika by decade in Norway · Boys

Mika appears in

Popularity data

What the record shows

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Mika moved ahead of

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Mika at a glance

What stands out in Mika's record

Mika across 3 official records

Mika by decade in Norway · Boys

Mika appears in

What the record shows

Where to go next

Next in the catalogue

A comparable record

Also first recorded in the 1960s

Names published alongside Mika

Mika and the names beside it

Mika moved ahead of

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