Is Mika a male or female name?
Mika is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 83% and male usage in Switzerland at 89%. Country context changes the answer.
Result without a country hint
This is the response used when the request does not supply a country. It is a fallback, not a claim that every country has the same distribution.
- Association
- female
- Probability
- 64%
- Sample size
- 14,249
- Confidence
- high
Mika by country
Only sources that publish observation counts appear in this table. The probability is the dominant-gender share within that country source; sample sizes from different countries cover different years and should not be treated as population rankings.
| Country | Association | Probability | Sample | Source |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| United States US | female | 83% | 7,941 | ssa |
| Canada CA | female | 63% | 1,727 | statcan |
| Switzerland CH | male | 89% | 1,343 | bfs |
| England and Wales GB | female | 67% | 938 | ons |
| France FR | male | 89% | 860 | insee |
| Austria AT | male | 90% | 620 | statat |
| Poland PL | female | 88% | 493 | pesel |
| Norway NO | male | 100% | 327 | ssb |
Attested in 21 countries and territories
Presence means the name appears in a source for that country. Sources without counts cannot support a popularity share.
AT · AU · BE · BY · CA · CH · CN · DE · ES · FI · FR · GB · IL · JP · MD · NO · PL · RS · RU · SE · US
Mika over time
In the United States, 72.3% of the babies named Mika in the 1960s were girls, against 78.7% in the 2020s. In France, 11.3% of the babies named Mika in the 2000s were girls, against 16% in the 2020s.
| Decade of birth | United States: girls | Babies | France: girls | Babies |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1960s | 72% | 202 | — | |
| 1970s | 87% | 654 | — | |
| 1980s | 87% | 800 | — | |
| 1990s | 87% | 1,339 | — | |
| 2000s | 81% | 1,742 | 11% | 310 |
| 2010s | 83% | 2,203 | 7% | 350 |
| 2020s | 79% | 963 | 16% | 125 |
Births per decade from the US Social Security Administration (1880–2024) and INSEE (France, 1900–2025); decades with fewer than 100 babies are left out. See boys' names that became girls' names and French names that changed sex.
Look up Mika with a country
Send a reliable two-letter country code when you have one. Preserve probability, sample size, confidence and source with the category.
curl "https://namegender.com/api/v1/gender?name=Mika&country=US" \
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Method and limits
Counted rows come from national registration sources that publish male and female totals. The attested-country list also includes sources that confirm presence but do not publish a sample size. Those two evidence types are kept separate.
Name data describes a population-level association. It does not identify an individual person's gender. Preserve unknown and low-confidence results, and do not use name inference for employment, medical, financial, insurance, legal or eligibility decisions.
Data version: 2026.10. Read the benchmark methodology and database provenance before applying a threshold.
Questions about Mika
Is Mika a male or female name?
Mika is used as both a female and male name. In counted records, it is associated with female usage in United States at 83% and male usage in Switzerland at 89%. Country context changes the answer.
Why can the result for Mika change by country?
A name can have different observed distributions in different populations. A country hint narrows the evidence used by the API instead of treating one global result as universal.
Does the name Mika identify a person's gender?
No. This page describes statistical associations in name records. It cannot identify an individual person and should not be used for consequential decisions.