Mikaela is a feminine form of Michael, the Hebrew name that asks "who is like God?", and this spelling is the standard one in Sweden and Finland. In the United States it arrived with the 1990s wave of Michaela and Makayla variants. Mikaela stood at number 381 in 2000, held in the 600s and 700s through the 2010s and slipped to number 1037 in 2025, its first year outside the top 1000 since 2000.